Ep. 14 – Aesthetics and Mystical Vision
Alan Watts Being in the Way
What Makes a Plastic Person?
A lot of people are like that, what we call plastic people. Anything that that person says or does is going to be very highly predictable. No surpriseso it is the element of surprise, somewhere, somehow, of not knowing how it's done, that is essential to beauty. If there are no fools, there is no fun. That is why er fools were used to be in great demand. One would have a king would have a fool present at court. The jester was actually a very wise person. They see things that other people don't see, just the same as children do. Music is beautiful, like a flower, like a fern, like a cloud. And
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