Alan Watts — Ego Death Will Save the World / Śmierć ego uratuje świat
This is a transcript of the YouTube clip . Polskie tłumaczenie poniżej See, our problem is we don't really know how to stop. We've got something started and we see it's going in the wrong direction. And I think the difficulty is, to borrow an old Chinese saying, that when the wrong man uses the right means, the right means work in the wrong way. In other words, there is something wrong with the way we think. And while that is there, everything we do will be a mess. Now, what is it that's wrong? Now, as far as I can see, the basic mistake is that we've invented this wonderful system of language and calculation and that it is at once too simple to deal with the complexity of the world, and also we are liable to confuse that system of symbols with the world itself, just as we confuse money with wealth: a lot of people are in business to make money instead of wealth. When they make the money they don't know what to do with it. And so in the same way, we confuse happ