I actually made my "phase 2" income this way; turning damaged husks into miniature palaces and renting them out. Phase 1 was trading the markets. Anyway, I don't rent to them, but I know of a family that is quite obviously tweakers and they seem to always have money for the latest home upgrades. I also know of people that don't do any hard drugs, but don't maintain their place. Can't always judge a house by the people inside, or the people inside by the house.
"This has been a story about people who were punished entirely too much for what they did. In memoriam, these were comrades whom I had; there are no better. They remain in my mind, and the enemy will never be forgiven. The "enemy" was their mistake in playing. Let them play again, in some other way, and let them be happy." There has never been a more beautiful, or more fitting eulogy for all of the lives lost (wholly and partly) to addiction. People are punished in countless ways for their "mistakes in playing." Punished by themselves and others with isolation, instability, incarceration. All because they crossed the invisible, shifting line. Some cross the line and make it back unscathed, some come back a shell of their former selves, some don't make it back at all. Some don't even want to come back, and I can't say I blame them. Another PKD quote, "It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane." It's easy to sit on your high horse, calling them "losers" like the two rehab intake scrubs at the end of the movie. But like Donna/Audrey replies to them "It's easy to win. Anybody can win." She wasn't saying "it's easy to get off the drugs." She was saying it's easy to *stay off them in the first place.* It's easy to go through life being a boy scout, coloring inside the lines, doing what you're "supposed to do." You have a map to follow every step of the way. It takes guts to go off the beaten path and explore a new frontier. It takes guts to experiment and speak from experience. If we were all boy scouts, if nobody had the guts to color outside the lines once in awhile, we wouldn't have the same brilliant works from brilliant minds like Philip K Dick. I'm not saying everybody should go out and try all the drugs. And I recognize that it also takes guts to "just say no" when the whole world says "just do it." But don't begrudge people for their mistakes in playing.
I see what you are saying. But what do those "guts" count for when a mother on heroin gives birth to a baby who has Withdrawals abd suffers? What do those "guts" count for when the person dies and their loved ones grieve or are consumed by depression and regret? I hope those "guts" it took to go outside the lines are worth it....
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through A Scanner Darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
@@MasterXploder88 I didn't see this reply till now. But you're right, it's not always a matter of guts or exploration. Sometimes people are just looking for an escape from the pain or drudgery of life - or maybe just a little enhancement - and at some point the substance takes over. At any rate, PKD said it better than I ever will with "mistakes in playing". You're also right that addicts often punish those around them as much or more than themselves. The "enemy" doesn't fight fair. It doesn't matter what substance it is - if it does take over, they really aren't themselves anymore, and they can do some horrible things that their sober self would never imagine. Sometimes it doesn't even have to be a drug or chemical substance. Addiction to anything can have devastating effects, whether it's sex, gambling, video games, internet, eating... Everybody is just looking for the thing that makes their dopamine and serotonin go brrrrrrrrr. We don't even know much about addiction, so we know even less about how to help. But further judgment, blame, and punishment are not effective in most cases. Compassion and understanding are the only way, but that doesn't mean you need to have infinite patience and forgiveness. There are no easy answers or silver bullets, sometimes the most compassionate thing you can do is turn your back on the enemy and hope the person you recognize returns. Is it always "worth it"? Obviously not. Hence "punished entirely too much for what they did".
Idk what makes people go down the path of addiction. I have always been high in disagreeableness, and I never held a job longer than 3 days. I run a business now. I retired in my 30s. I did not do the "get a degree, get a job, answer to a boss until 65" thing. I took massive risks and even thought about ending it all early, because the path was so uncertain that even I wasn't sure I'd succeed. But... I never got addicted to drugs. It's not "rebellious" to do them. It's almost like you have to be high in agreeableness, to be able to be peer-pressured easily. Not saying it's strong or weak, just saying I don't think it's "coloring outside the lines". It's just another set of coloring books, and they're coloring perfectly inside them, like they're expected to.
"This has been a story about people who were punished entirely too much for what they did. I loved them all, here is a list to whom i dedicate my love : To Arnaud. Deceased To Yann. Deceased To Sam. Deceased. To Pedro. Deceased. To Seb. Deceased. To Mathieu. Deceased. To Tracto. Deceased. To Remi. Permanent psychosis. Deceased To Martin. Permanent psychosis. Deceased. TI Nico. Deceased. To Stalfos. Permanent psychosis. And so forth..... In memoriam, these were comrades whom I had; there are no better. They remain in my mind, and the enemy will never be forgiven. The "enemy" was their mistake in playing. Let them play again, in some other way, and let them be happy."
Waking life and a scanner darkly... A holy gift. Still hoping for a ubik movie by richard. He is a real fan of phil and he knows (psychedelic) pain and madness
I was searching for exactly this piece. I looked up the soundtrack and there were 15, but for some reason I knew it was this one, and was right. What are the odds, 1 of 15, to get it right the first time. Something about the title of this track made me realize it was the right one.
"I hope it does, he thought, see clearly, because I can’t any longer these days see into myself. I see only murk. Murk outside; murk inside. I hope, for everyone’s sake, the scanners do better. Because, he thought, if the scanner sees only darkly, the way I myself do, then we are cursed, cursed again and like we have been continually, and we’ll wind up dead this way, knowing very little and getting that little fragment wrong too."
such a waste of a good house, a family could live here
I actually made my "phase 2" income this way; turning damaged husks into miniature palaces and renting them out. Phase 1 was trading the markets.
Anyway, I don't rent to them, but I know of a family that is quite obviously tweakers and they seem to always have money for the latest home upgrades. I also know of people that don't do any hard drugs, but don't maintain their place.
Can't always judge a house by the people inside, or the people inside by the house.
uggggghh the ost is so beautiful and haunting it hurts..
I see from your comments that you and I understand each other quite perfectly.
Thier enemy was thier mistake in playing. Let them play again.
Let us all be happy.
"This has been a story about people who were punished entirely too much for what they did.
In memoriam, these were comrades whom I had; there are no better. They remain in my mind, and the enemy will never be forgiven.
The "enemy" was their mistake in playing. Let them play again, in some other way, and let them be happy."
There has never been a more beautiful, or more fitting eulogy for all of the lives lost (wholly and partly) to addiction. People are punished in countless ways for their "mistakes in playing." Punished by themselves and others with isolation, instability, incarceration. All because they crossed the invisible, shifting line. Some cross the line and make it back unscathed, some come back a shell of their former selves, some don't make it back at all. Some don't even want to come back, and I can't say I blame them. Another PKD quote, "It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."
It's easy to sit on your high horse, calling them "losers" like the two rehab intake scrubs at the end of the movie. But like Donna/Audrey replies to them "It's easy to win. Anybody can win."
She wasn't saying "it's easy to get off the drugs." She was saying it's easy to *stay off them in the first place.* It's easy to go through life being a boy scout, coloring inside the lines, doing what you're "supposed to do." You have a map to follow every step of the way. It takes guts to go off the beaten path and explore a new frontier. It takes guts to experiment and speak from experience.
If we were all boy scouts, if nobody had the guts to color outside the lines once in awhile, we wouldn't have the same brilliant works from brilliant minds like Philip K Dick. I'm not saying everybody should go out and try all the drugs. And I recognize that it also takes guts to "just say no" when the whole world says "just do it." But don't begrudge people for their mistakes in playing.
Well worded comment.
I see what you are saying. But what do those "guts" count for when a mother on heroin gives birth to a baby who has Withdrawals abd suffers? What do those "guts" count for when the person dies and their loved ones grieve or are consumed by depression and regret? I hope those "guts" it took to go outside the lines are worth it....
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through A Scanner Darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
@@MasterXploder88 I didn't see this reply till now. But you're right, it's not always a matter of guts or exploration. Sometimes people are just looking for an escape from the pain or drudgery of life - or maybe just a little enhancement - and at some point the substance takes over. At any rate, PKD said it better than I ever will with "mistakes in playing".
You're also right that addicts often punish those around them as much or more than themselves. The "enemy" doesn't fight fair. It doesn't matter what substance it is - if it does take over, they really aren't themselves anymore, and they can do some horrible things that their sober self would never imagine.
Sometimes it doesn't even have to be a drug or chemical substance. Addiction to anything can have devastating effects, whether it's sex, gambling, video games, internet, eating... Everybody is just looking for the thing that makes their dopamine and serotonin go brrrrrrrrr.
We don't even know much about addiction, so we know even less about how to help. But further judgment, blame, and punishment are not effective in most cases. Compassion and understanding are the only way, but that doesn't mean you need to have infinite patience and forgiveness. There are no easy answers or silver bullets, sometimes the most compassionate thing you can do is turn your back on the enemy and hope the person you recognize returns.
Is it always "worth it"? Obviously not. Hence "punished entirely too much for what they did".
Idk what makes people go down the path of addiction. I have always been high in disagreeableness, and I never held a job longer than 3 days. I run a business now. I retired in my 30s. I did not do the "get a degree, get a job, answer to a boss until 65" thing. I took massive risks and even thought about ending it all early, because the path was so uncertain that even I wasn't sure I'd succeed.
But... I never got addicted to drugs. It's not "rebellious" to do them. It's almost like you have to be high in agreeableness, to be able to be peer-pressured easily. Not saying it's strong or weak, just saying I don't think it's "coloring outside the lines". It's just another set of coloring books, and they're coloring perfectly inside them, like they're expected to.
This always makes me... feel...so much...such hope turned into despair the soundtrack off growing old...of wasted gifts
I couldn't have described this track better
Best song, best movie...
This always stuck with me. Haunting melancholic piece.❤️
What does a scanner see? Into the head, into the heart ?
"This has been a story about people who were punished entirely too much for what they did.
I loved them all, here is a list to whom i dedicate my love :
To Arnaud. Deceased
To Yann. Deceased
To Sam. Deceased.
To Pedro. Deceased.
To Seb. Deceased.
To Mathieu. Deceased.
To Tracto. Deceased.
To Remi. Permanent psychosis. Deceased
To Martin. Permanent psychosis. Deceased.
TI Nico. Deceased.
To Stalfos. Permanent psychosis.
And so forth.....
In memoriam, these were comrades whom I had; there are no better. They remain in my mind, and the enemy will never be forgiven.
The "enemy" was their mistake in playing. Let them play again, in some other way, and let them be happy."
Such a haunting but beautiful piece of music to a fantastic film
this song gets me since many years
Alien isolation main menu music has similarities , eerie mysterious soundtrack
Graham Reynolds is just a genius
Waking life and a scanner darkly... A holy gift. Still hoping for a ubik movie by richard. He is a real fan of phil and he knows (psychedelic) pain and madness
I was searching for exactly this piece. I looked up the soundtrack and there were 15, but for some reason I knew it was this one, and was right. What are the odds, 1 of 15, to get it right the first time. Something about the title of this track made me realize it was the right one.
clearly or darkly ?
"I hope it does, he thought, see clearly, because I can’t any longer
these days see into myself. I see only murk. Murk outside; murk inside.
I hope, for everyone’s sake, the scanners do better.
Because, he thought, if the scanner sees only darkly, the way I myself do, then we are cursed, cursed again and like we have been continually, and we’ll wind up dead this way, knowing very little and getting that little fragment wrong too."
Wow 😢
RIP To the friends of mine that this applies to.
We are family ;)
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Stoker Trailer 2013
When you're step dad sits there laughing at you getting in trouble when he was the cause and You're step mom Calls you Fat and Locks you in the Dark.
grow up
@@andrewsneacker1256 You're Fucking Lucky, UA-cam deletes my Comments. Tell me to Grow up when you weren't there. Say that to my Face.
I am sorry to hear that.
0:45 POW
Don’t do drugs!!
have you also read the book and watched other linkslater films?
So weird that Alex Jones is in this movie
Wrong movie buddy, Alex Jones shows up in "A Walking Life" which is also a rotoscope movie.
@@gar2yc no its not the wrong movie. Alex Jones is in both movies
What's weird? In the movie, he warned people about the inconvenient truth and was silenced for it, so basically as in reality.
@@MrHejke Bless you