Love and Enchantment: YouTube Script #2

A: OK, let’s discuss sexual ecstasy. I take it this is what you mean by Enchantment, and the sixteenth Tarot card.

C: That’s right. Sexual ecstasy is molecular biological. It’s filling the shaft of the penis with 500 million wriggling torpedos and not allowing them to discharge.

A: OK, I see. As long as the penis remains erect, or semi-erect, sexual enchantment is ready to hand. As soon as the penis discharges the little guys, sexual enchantment disappears.

C: Right. So long as enchantment remains, love remains. When enchantment is lost, the terms get reversed. When enchantment disappears it becomes easy to hate the object of love.

A (with force): What a scam! What a rip-off! How cruel!

C: Well, not exactly. It’s better, IMO, to think of love and sex as a social and moral challenge, not as a deception of nature. It’s better to look at it as a complex, multi-scaled mechanism society and man both need to master.

A: OK, that’s why you picked me out of the Shaolin school. It’s because I was on the track toward mastery.

C: Right. I wouldn’t want to work with any other sort.

A: That’s pretty highbrow. I’m not sure it’s really me.

C: That’s a question of imagination. Do you have a good imagination? I know you’re a good gymnast, but I’m not yet sure of your intellectual confidence.

A: I’m not either. I’m working class.

(Pause)

But I do want to attend Stanford. I want to be the first in my family.

C: Stanford is the seedbed for Silicon Valley. And I want us to do a billionaire-scaled project in Silicon Valley.

A: And not only Silicon Valley. You appear also to have set your sights on Hollywood and on the Nobel Committee of 2060.

C (smiles): OK, yes.

A: Let’s get back to penis management. It looks like you think life isn’t worth living unless your penis stays erect for at least 20 hours a day. How exactly to you think that can be made a reality?

C: I think a great deal of background needs to be developed for that to become a reality. BF Skinner’s ideas about science and consciousness are probably the way forward, but Skinner is helpless without a theory of natural language conversation. Maintaining sexual ecstasy or mutual enchantment will ultimately come down to the background use of language and how it works in the astral body.

A: And you’ve got the theory of this background. Or better, you’re hoping you and at least one other person will have the theory and be capable of explaining it.

C: Right. Given that dyad the required background can be developed.

A: And what exactly is this background?

C: The background is mutual love, mutual appreciation and complete environmental serenity. In Walden Two Skinner describes how to engineer these in terms of an externally engineered cultural environment, but not in terms of consciousness. Not in terms of internally encountered realities. He doesn’t try a theory of conversation, but a theory of conversation is what he needs for his Utopia.

(Pause)

A (stares): You want me to expose my soul on television.

C: Only to the extent and in the way you yourself want to. I want to be or to become an artist. I want to you to show us something like Rothko or Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

A: This is becoming more unrealistic the more you say.

C: Not necessarily. You are already very watchable. All you need to do is to continue to be enjoyable without falling off too much anywhere.

A: I may not always be in the mood.

C: If you’re not in the mood, don’t try.

A: I’m not sure.

C: You don’t need to be sure yet. Eventually you will need to be very sure.

A: (stares)

Finis