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what do you desire what makes you itch 00:00:07
what do you desire what makes you itch what sort of a situation 00:00:12
would you like let's suppose I do this 00:00:20
often in vocational guidance of students 00:00:23
they come to me and say well we're 00:00:27
getting out of college and we have the 00:00:28
faintest idea what we want to do so I 00:00:32
always ask the question what would you 00:00:35
like to do if money were no object what 00:00:39
would how would you really enjoy 00:00:40
spending your life well it's so amazing 00:00:44
as a result of our kind of educational 00:00:46
system crowds of students say well we'd 00:00:49
like to be painters we'd like to be 00:00:51
poets we'd like to be writers but as 00:00:52
everybody knows you can't earn any money 00:00:54
that way another person says well I'd 00:00:56
like to live in out of doors life and 00:00:58
ride horses I said he want to teach in a 00:01:01
riding school let's go through with it 00:01:05
what do you want when we finally got 00:01:08
down to something which the individual 00:01:10
says he really wants to do I will say to 00:01:12
him you do that and forget the money 00:01:18
because if you say that getting the 00:01:22
money is the most important thing you 00:01:25
will spend your life completely wasting 00:01:27
your time you'll be doing things you 00:01:30
don't like doing in order to go on 00:01:32
living that is to go on doing things you 00:01:34
don't like doing which is stupid better 00:01:38
to have a short life that is full of 00:01:41
what you like doing than a long life 00:01:43
spent in a miserable way 00:01:43
and after all if you do really like what you're doing it doesn't matter what it 00:01:49
is you can eventually turn it you should 00:01:54
eventually become a master of it 00:01:56
the only way to become a master of 00:01:58
something to be really with it and then 00:02:00
you'll be able to get a good fee for 00:02:02
whatever it is so don't don't worry too 00:02:05
much that's where everybody's somebody's 00:02:07
interested in everything and anything 00:02:10
you could be interested in you will find 00:02:12
others but is absolutely stupid spend 00:02:15
your time doing things you don't like in 00:02:17
order to go on spending things you don't 00:02:19
like and doing things you don't like and 00:02:21
to teach your children to follow in the 00:02:23
same track see what we're doing is we're 00:02:27
bringing up children the educated to 00:02:30
live the same sort of lives in them in 00:02:33
order that they may justify themselves 00:02:35
and find satisfaction in life by 00:02:37
bringing up their children to bring up 00:02:39
their children to do the same thing so 00:02:41
it's all retching no vomit 00:02:42
it never gets them 00:02:42
and so therefore it's so important to consider this question what do I design 00:02:51
well when we answer that question in a 00:02:57
naive way we figure out that we want a 00:03:01
desire or what we want is to control it 00:03:05
with it to create girls that don't grow 00:03:10
old apples that don't rot clothes that 00:03:14
never wear out conveyance is that get 00:03:17
from one place to another instantly so 00:03:19
we don't have to wait power available to 00:03:22
do anything that you could conceive and 00:03:24
do it just instantly like that to get 00:03:27
this funny technological omnipotence but 00:03:32
if you take time out to think about that 00:03:35
and really go into it with your full 00:03:38
strength of imagination and find out 00:03:41
whether that's where you want to be you 00:03:46
will soon see that's not what you want 00:03:46
because the moment you have a situation where you are really in control of 00:03:56
things that is to say in which the 00:04:01
future is almost completely predictable 00:04:04
a completely predictable future is 00:04:07
already the past you've had it that's 00:04:12
not what you want you want a surprise 00:04:15
and you don't know what that's going to 00:04:17
be because obviously wouldn't be a 00:04:18
surprise if you did you want a pleasant 00:04:22
surprise but like you say what sort of a 00:04:25
surprise would be pleasant you can't 00:04:31
really answer them because you know if 00:04:34
there are to be such things as pleasant 00:04:36
surprises that must also be unpleasant 00:04:37
surprises must be rude shops so you're 00:04:41
like somebody taking a one of those 00:04:45
wishing well boxes you know tops you 00:04:47
know will you fish it and you bring out 00:04:49
a package and you don't know whether 00:04:51
you've got a dead rat in it or a new 00:04:53
camera then that's the way that's that 00:05:00
seems to be the thing that really 00:05:01
excites people 00:05:01
but quite certainly there comes out of this inquiry a feeling of real 00:05:08
disillusionment with the ideal of power 00:05:17
to be in power to be in control is not 00:05:21
something that any sensible person wants 00:05:21
people are frustrated in love we have your children there's a natural tendency 00:05:29
in the human being to see power is 00:05:33
substitute and that's a very negative 00:05:37
thing is not having a bad temper 00:05:39
to see power after you are frustrated in 00:05:42
love you should try and get back on the 00:05:43
love beam because nobody wants power now 00:05:50
you may say that shirking responsibility 00:05:53
that if you were a really responsible 00:05:55
person you would go out for power and 00:05:58
try to use power it to the best possible 00:06:01
advantage for the benefit of all all 00:06:05
right what would be the benefit of all 00:06:08
ask them what do you want me to do with 00:06:12
this power 00:06:13
I'm dictator what would you like me to 00:06:16
do well nobody knows because they 00:06:18
haven't thought it through 00:06:19
they think of all sorts of short-range 00:06:21
things and they are largely conflicting 00:06:23
and confusing because they're not well 00:06:25