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November 23, 2005
Harold Ramis: Death is inevitable
SF Chron's Hugh Hart transcribes as Harold Ramis polishes his lump of coal, the lovingly black Ice Harvest. Give 'em heck, Harry: "Buddhism, and religion in general, I think, evolved as a way of dealing with the fact that we live with impermanence, we can't hang on to any good feeling we have, we're fundamentally alone in the universe, death is inevitable... We're all facing doomsday no matter what we do. Life has no intrinsic meaning. No matter what we're told, we still feel this emptiness. So for a lot of people, life is a kind of purgatory; we're just marking time until we die, you know? And that keeps us going to shrinks and churches and ashrams and dojos, or strip clubs, looking for meaning somewhere...
"I don't go to strip clubs, partly because I think it's a waste of money putting dollar bills in a stripper's G-string—if I'm not actually going to have sex, why am I spending the money? ... So I don't go to bars, I don't go to strip clubs: I go to movies. This is where people find a little vacation from their real lives. We watch someone else's tragedy or comedy, and when the movie is deeply felt and full of meaning, we feel enriched by it.... Unfortunately... 90% of the time we feel ripped off."
Posted by pride at November 23, 2005 12:31 PM
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