Now It's On

Bust the lock off the front door.



A great video about dropping out, but being supportive of those that are still in. The hamster wheel is synonymous with the seven day week, in which the business and routine of the working man takes place. It's not his fault that he is trapped in this system; he is doing his duty of supporting the knowledge-creators, as they are the existential constructors who make sense of all the frantic qualities of modernity. At the end of the day, the hamster wheel is the worker's way of assuming and maintaining motion, so that he might release himself by enjoying the fruits of the labor of the knowledge-creators.

Grandaddy takes it one step further, and says that these two types can be one, which is the knowledge-creating worker, the artist. Growing, advancing, progressing, changing, and leaving old ideas behind are what happens when individuals maintain the oscillation between thinking and acting. There is no "us and them," which is the frame of mind that the scientists and the wheel runners assume. Grandaddy, as they rock their mossy instruments, are the result of smashing thought and action into one project; they shatter the "us and them" model, and assume the third person plural: "we." Really cool things happen when the "we" presents the knowledge-creator and the worker to themselves in a way that allows for reflection and assessment of the "us and them" way to life. This video says, "Now it's on:" the light of the mind is switched on, and the "we" is ready to take on shattering the interdependence of thought and body, in what might result in new ways of thinking.