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