Vertigo according to Milan Kundera

"She longed to do something that would prevent her from turning back to Tomas. She longed to destroy brutally the past seven years of her life. It was vertigo. A heady, insuperable longing to fall.

We might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. Aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it. He is drunk with weakness, wishes to grow even weaker, wishes to fall down in the middle of the main square in front of everybody, wishes to be down, lower than down." - The unbearable lightness of being.

Our lives would be much more gratifying if we know that each moment is earned by not succumbing to this vertigo.

An excellent short film

http://en.qoob.tv/video/clip_view.asp?id=245

its only 9 mins long

Arctor's choice

"But then one day, ................ Arctor had hit his head on the corner of a kitchen cabinet directly above him. The pain, the cut in his scalp, so unexpected and undeserved, had for some reason cleared away the cobwebs. It flashed on him instantly that he didn't hate the kitchen cabinet: he hated his life, his wife, his two daughters, his whole house, the back yard with its power mower, the whole fucking place and everyone in it.

Nothing would ever change. Nothing new could ever be expected. It was like, he had once thought, a little plastic boat that would sail on forever, without incident, until it finally sank, which would be a secret relief to all. It had to end and it did. But in this dark world where he now dwelt, ugly things and surprising things and once in a long while tiny wondrous thing spilled out at him constantly; he could count on nothing." - from A scanner darkly

Bob Arctor had made an unsual choice in life. He had abandoned his ordinary, seemingly normal life and instead chose chaos and excitement. Clinging on to a meaningless existence for the sake of conformity might be a crime against oneself.
Change is imperative. The question should be: What needs to change?

The future of intelligence

http://www.singinst.org/overview/whatisthesingularity/