dont get out of bed!!!!!!!!

John Keating: No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world. Listen, you hear it? – – Carpe – – hear it? – – Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.

Powell: Ha! Did you think you were free? Where were you going at : today? into the gym, right? in the morning, your wake-up call. in the middle of the night when you wake up sweating, with your heart pounding. What is it that has you all tied up, Juha, tied up in little knots? Is it ambition? Yeah. You’re no mystery to me, boy. I used to be you. Okay. One last chance. You think I won’t do it? [ Chuckles ] What’s one psychiatrist less to the world? I’m already deep in the pit. So what can they do to me? Last try. Get it right. What have you lost? What did I take from you? Write it.

A violent buzz rings in your ear and a voice pierces in your ear. Your eyes open. The day has begun. A torrent of thoughts race through your brain. You already in it before you’re ‘in it’. The rat race, that’s what they call it. Once your feet hit the carpet, the revolutions of the hamster wheel begin their turning with you in it.

Ambition is that which drives us. It fates us. It tells us what we should do, how we do it, why we should do it. It gives us an identity. When we wake up for an other; something that tells us how and what we should we want; we don’t actually ever wake up. We simply become characters who ‘go through the motions’. Is this not akin to the character in the movie ‘Click’ with Adam Sandler, remember that movie? He is bestowed with a mystical remote control [by none other than the charismatic, yet odd: Christopher Walken] that gives him the power to control his universe. One feature that he abuses is the ability to fast-forward through his own life. He chooses this option so much that it begins doing it for him. After a while, he does not get to choose the events, it chooses for him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQtmGcdSDAI

Does this not feel familiar? That you begin going through life and the motions move for you. Its’ called ideology. When we stop thinking and are thought for. Another word in philosophy, that some use is: interpellation. This is when we are called into a narrative without ever really having a choice. Think of the ‘Uncle Sam’ poster. You know the one where Uncle Sam is pointing ‘at you’. And then some message that follows, like: Your Country Needs You in bold caption. Here we have a great example of being called into something that you don’t really have a choice.

The presupposition of this ‘calling’ is that if you don’t answer it, then you’re not a patriot. That you are anti-nationalistic and un-American.  Now, we know this is bullshit, yet we are interpellated [called into] this same daily event that most refer to as ‘life’. But knowing its bullshit is not enough, because then what occurs, is that we then go through life ‘knowing what we do, and still doing it’. So, what of ambition? What is it? What drives us to get up and do it all over again? Is it Puxatawny Phil beckoning us into the cycle. Without getting too academic, ambition has to do with our libidinal investments. What are those?