Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
I have another TV show called The Vortex, it's about the Venice
Beach awakening youth, street musicians on Venice Beach, I'm
creating with Sykes from the Sykes and the People, and got lots of
conscious rappers, and musicians participating. It's a very exciting
project because it's documenting what's actually happening, but
we're staging it too, so it's like an alternate reality show.
TRIP: I perceive that the films that are made that have mass
appeal have to do a couple of things. One, they have to stimulate
the limbic system and the viewer that responds to sexuality, and to
violence, as well as parts of the brain that perhaps are in the
frontal cortex related to the perception of our oneness, or
whatever. Because you look at every single one of these films that
does big bucks, and everyone of them practical has intense
amounts of violence, and then sexually imagery like the little… she
was hot, that Pandoran creature, or whatever. So I mean my
question…
PRASAD PAUL DUFFY: That's the Hollywood formula, even Lord
of the Rings, has that formula. That's the formula, so that's the
mass consciousness where they're at right now. And like you said
earlier who are we to lift a finger to remove them from their
struggle.
TRIP: That's fine.
PRASAD PAUL DUFFY: But we as individuals can make the
alternative, and one day the alternative will be the mainstream.
WIZARD: It'll hit critical mass.
PRASAD PAUL DUFFY: Many years ago I started promoting, with
a bunch of other people, like a logical green lifestyle, okay; we all
were on the cutting edge. Now it's become main-stream, and it
has been co-opted by the corporate machine, okay. And BP was
the first to jump on the green bandwagon and change their logo,
and change their gas stations to reflect it, and look what happened
with their oil spill.
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