Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Socrates himself was permanently pissed

I think I'll try an experiment where I'll live by a specific and different philosophy every day or every couple of days. I realize that's really vague. What I mean is I'll take some specific way of seeing the world, as a taoist or a narcissist or ecofella, and try and live it for a day or so. I imagine they won't be necessarily life changing or even too far outside my regular routine, but it might be a fun project to occupy time, break up the monotony, and shake up the ol world view. Not to mention it's a good and money-free way of spending my days. Maybe it will just be in the way I record the day; like maybe I'll be a beat poet for a day and not do anything differently, but I'll look back at the day's events with a certain voice. For that matter I could do each day as a different poet. This will probably involve carrying a notebook around.

Or maybe I could do a day as a character, like I'll spend the day as what I imagine a hipster to be. Without buying skinny jeans.

We'll see how that goes.

1 comment:

  1. I think that is a great idea and that you shoudl do this. Hell, I might even join you on the experiment. It would be a great exercise for character development and stepping outside of the box to some degree.

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