We don’t do anything, we’re conditioned by our culture. And we’re conditioned to consume, and we’re conditioned to watch watch watch, we’re conditioned not to do anything and we’re scared of physicality, and we’re scared of action and direct confrontation. And the smarter of us are only at the level where we indulge in word games. I mean those with a social conscience at least, still only, you know, write their outrage out on internet forums, or blogs, or talk about issues and problems in this decrepit, wasted society. Because we have that outlet there, we have the outlet of the internet. We have that emotional outlet of cinema, I mean you watch a movie like Fight Club, most people find them agreeing with the ideas expressed there. And they feel energized and they want to go and do something but they don’t, they just watch a different film or they find a different distraction.Why? Because that pinned up emotional energy had been released through the watching of the film, you’ve lived it by proxy so you don’t need to live it in reality so you don’t need to live.

And no one has really lived. I haven’t lived. I haven’t felt real, terrifying fear. Or abject pain. Or indescribable passion. Or impalpable rage. I haven’t felt these directly. I’ve seen them on screens.

And this is another dangerous thing. Violence. So much violence in our culture and where is it? It’s on our screens and this isn’t good. Violence itself isn’t bad, it’s just an inherit part of human being. What is bad is our desensitization to it, our of it glorification through media. Because when you watch violence and it’s allowed to be glorified like that, you lose touch with it’s fearsome aspects, it’s terrifying aspects.

I mean violence has its own limits. Because it is horrendous, horrendous but perhaps a new sincerity, but still horrendous. And you watch a war film and think “Wow I’d love to be in war” but anyone who’s fought in a war would tell you that it’s horrific and they wouldn’t wish it on anyone.

So I say live in the body, which is don’t live through the eyes, don’t live through the mind, don’t live through the keypad, but live in the body. Because that’s the most direct experience of life.