Is it? I stand by my assessment regardless
― El Tomboto, Friday, 19 May 2017 13:08 (six years ago) link
no foul if you find Alan Watts irritating -- as much as I get from him, as his influence keeps spreading and turning up on preposterously influential platforms, you can start to see which fragments of his thinking have appeal to certain quarters. living here near Silicon Valley one always stays a little wary of the way Buddhism can be used to justify one's place in the pecking order
just the same, if I had kids and they were older than 12, I'd be happier with them playing this than most things. the first thirty minutes made me so happy I was like 'this is ALL AGES' even despite Watts' occasional mention of suicide, but you absolutely need to be at a certain stage to handle the final stretch inside the Brain
― Milton Parker, Saturday, 3 April 2021 16:28 (three years ago) link