But you had to do that thing. You didn't let it happen. And so, in this way, the human
 being sometimes becomes an organism for self-frustration. Let's take... Kozibski called man a time-binder.
 That means that he's the animal peculiarly aware of the time sequence, and as a result
 of this is able to do some very remarkable things. He can predict. He studies what's
 happened in the past, and he says the chances are so-and-so of that happening again. So
 he predicts. Of course, it's very useful to be able to predict, because that has survival
 value. But at the same time, it creates anxiety. You pay for this increased survival ability
 involved in prediction by knowing that in the end you won't succeed. You're all going
 to fall apart by one way or another. It might happen tomorrow. It might happen 50 years
 from now. But it all comes apart in the end. And people get worried about that. They get
 worried. So what they gained on the roundabout, they lost on the swings. So then, if you see,
 on the other hand, that existence... This is, as I said, my basic metaphysical assumption,
 which I won't conceal from you, that existence is musical in nature. That is to say that
 it is not serious. It is the play of all kinds of patterns. We can look upon different creatures
 as we look at different games, as we look at chess, checkers, backgammon, tennis, as
 the tree game, the beetle game, the grass game. Or you can look at them as you look
 at different styles of music, mazurkas, waltzes, sonata, et cetera, et cetera, all down the
 line. They're all these different things doing their stuff. And they're going to do, to do,
 to do, to do, to do, to do, to do, you know, in different rhythms. And we're doing that.
 If you were in a flying saucer from Mars or somewhere and you came and looked, trying
 to make out what was living on this world, from about 10,000 feet at night or early morning,
 you would see these great ganglia with tentacles going out all over the place. And early in
 the morning, you see little blobs of luminous particles going into the middle of them. See?
 And then in the late afternoon or early evening, it would spit them all out again. And they
 say, well, this thing, this thing breathes. And it does it on a special rhythm. It goes
 in and out, in and out, in and out, once every 24 hours. But then it rests a day and doesn't
 spit so much. It just spits in a different way. That's a kind of irregularity. And then
 it starts spitting all over again the same way. Well, you see, that's very interesting.
 That's the kind of thing we have. See? This is something that goes this way. You see?
 Just like music goes, "Mmm, buh, buh, mmm, buh, buh, mmm, buh, buh, mmm, buh, buh." Did
 you ever see a lady go this way, go that way? That's what it does. And when people, when
 you think a bit what people really want to do with their time, what do they do when they're
 not being pushed around and somebody's telling them what to do? They like to go, they like
 to make rhythms. They listen to music. They dance or they sing or they do something of
 a rhythmic nature, playing cards or bowling or raising their elbows. Everybody wants to
 spend their time swinging. That's the nature of this whole thing we're in, you see? It
 likes to swing. That's why it does it.
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