:10:00
It's like your life
is yours to create.
:10:03
I've read the post modernists
with some interest, even admiration.
:10:08
But when I read them, I always have
this awful nagging feeling...
:10:12
that something absolutely essential
is getting left out.
:10:16
The more that you talk about a person
as a social construction...
:10:21
or as a confluence
of forces...
:10:24
or as fragmented
or marginalized,
:10:28
what you do is you open up
a whole new world of excuses.
:10:31
And when Sartre
talks about responsibility,
:10:34
he's not talking about
something abstract.
:10:36
He's not talking about
the kind of self or soul that
theologians would argue about.
:10:41
It's something very concrete.
It's you and me talking.
:10:44
Making decisions. Doing things
and taking the consequences.
:10:48
It might be true that
there are six billion people
in the world and counting.
:10:52
Nevertheless,
what you do makes a difference.
:10:55
It makes a difference,
first of all, in material terms.
:10:58
Makes a difference to other people
and it sets an example.
:11:02
In short, I think
the message here is...
:11:04
that we should never simply
write ourselves off...
:11:07
and see ourselves as the victim
of various forces.
:11:11
It's always our decision
who we are.
:11:24
Creation seems
to come out of imperfection.
:11:27
I t seems to come out of
a striving and a frustration.
:11:32
And this is where I think
language came from.
:11:36
I mean, it came from our desire
to transcend our isolation...
:11:41
and have some sort of
connection with one another.
:11:45
And it had to be easy
when it was just simple survival.
:11:49
Like, you know, "water."
We came up with a sound for that.
:11:52
Or, "Saber-toothed tiger right behind
you." We came up with a sound for that.
:11:56
But when it gets
really interesting, I think,