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In this story a polar bear tries to eat an eskimo’s baby and a walrus saves the baby and the eskimo eats the walrus, so if that’s too much for you step out now.
I’m a little interested in world affairs, but not the way you mean. You are part of my world at the moment, so you are a part of my world affairs. This conversation we’re having, okay? This is the world to me, of me. This is the world of me so I’m interested in this. This and me are the same, so I’m interested. My interest and my world are the same. If I was not interested in part of it then that part would not be my world anymore, right? Yes, because my world is what I am aware of, what I am interested in. That’s my world, my world affairs.
So, to illustrate, there’s this eskimo. He’s minding his business, catching fish, building igloos, watching out for polar bears, right? That’s his whole world. That’s his world affairs. He’s interested in those affairs, we agree on this. I’m not interested in eskimo affairs. I don’t care about the eskimo or his family. They could be in a terrible situation and I don’t care. If I’m in a terrible situation, does the eskimo care? No, why should he care? He’s got eskimo business and I’ve got my business. That’s good, that’s the way it should be.
If you say you care about this eskimo, you’re talking about you, not the eskimo. To care is either a feeling or just words. Do you have feelings for this eskimo or just words? It’s all just what seems, right? Not what is, what seems. If you care about it, it’s your world, right? If you care, that’s your world affairs. Not just talk care but feeling care. I can say I love all people but I don’t love all people. The concerns of everybody are not the concerns of me.
I’m already getting a little tired of this eskimo, I would say. The eskimo is not my problem. I don’t care about the eskimo or his eskimo family. I’m not a mean person, just it has nothing to do with me. The eskimo has his world and I have my world. If a polar bear eats the eskimo, I don’t care. Do you think if a shark bites my leg off the eskimo cares? The eskimo doesn’t care if a shark eats my leg. Why should the eskimo care? Big deal to me but nothing to him, right? That’s okay, no problem. Why do I care if the eskimo cares? Does the eskimo care if I care? Maybe a polar bear eats the eskimo’s baby. Poor dead baby, but do I care? No, it’s just something that happened, maybe happened. I bet sharks eat babies whenever they’re around. That’s shark business, baby business, not my business. If my leg gets bit off that’s my business, not eskimo business. Eskimo doesn’t care. Maybe there is no eskimo, who can say?
To stay with our eskimo theme, me and eskimo have different TV shows, right? He’s on his show, I’m in my totally other show. The world is full of many TV shows. You can watch other shows but you can only star in your show, that doesn’t change. I star in my show, the eskimo stars in his show, that’s it. The eskimo doesn’t jump in my show, he has his own show. If I watch his show and a polar bear eats his baby I change the channel, right? I don’t want to see that. Maybe a walrus saves the baby from the polar bear and the eskimo eats the walrus. I don’t want to see that either. I wouldn’t eat the walrus that saved my baby but that’s eskimo business. Maybe if I was really hungry.
There’s only one show, my show. Other shows are just shows in my show, like in my show I can watch other shows. It’s all just shows. Everything we know is just stuff we believe. Everything is what seems, not what is. There is no is, only seems. Okay, no more eskimo right now.
"Don’t worry about all this talk. If you want you can worry about ideas. That’s all this is, some ideas to play with. Ideas are playtoys. You play with them and see what they can do. If you have one you like you play with that one. Or else you throw it in the box with the other toys and forget it."