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Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
and they were totally running around playing together, just for
fun, for no reason. There's no socio-biological play as part of what
we are. Then what's happened is we've turned it into competition,
which is really just insane cooperation, because sports are just
cooperation, we agree on the rules and then we pretend we
compete. So we have to cooperate for the whole thing to look like
this theatre of competition, which is why sometimes it's just fun, I
think that's what makes us crazy in some ways as a society,
because we're constantly competing to win, but we have to agree
on the rules.
TRIP: So do you have any ideas, and maybe you don't, but how do
people tap into their playful nature because we all have one, but
especially I think women are almost naturally more playful
somehow than men? Men, we get very bound up in all kinds of
worldly stuff that we want to manage, and control, and master,
and we get sullen, and miss the opportunity. Here you're a very
playful man, that's why the women love you so much [Laughs]. Is
there a key?
BENJAMIN SMYTHE: The men love me too! [Laughter]
TRIP: What’s the key? I love you too. I love you too, Benjamin.
BENJAMIN SMYTHE: The key is to discover that you're doing
that so you can get a woman, so you just stop and then there's a
great… the guy who runs the wine thing, Gary something, I forget,
but he says you need to stop doing things you hate. So if you want
to start playing, first you have to stop doing all the things you can't
stand, and then seemingly that will make room. Like I don't
necessarily have to know what I want, I just have to know what I
don't want. And if I just stay away from that, seemingly what I
want will come out and just start to play around. There's not a
formula again, so it's very just case-by-case, person-by-person.
The way a brain is constructed, or a personality is constructed, it's
a fascinating thing. There's not some like across the board, well if
you do this then you'll be fine. It's like everyone's so different, we
come from such different backgrounds and experiences. But my
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