What Would You Be, What Would You Do?

If you're feeling heroic and you want to do something for the world
And you want to expand what you understand
You poke your head through what you know
And you take a look at the, at whatever structure is out there
And to me this is a re-creation of the Daoist Yin-Yang symbol
You know, with the white paisley here
And that's what you know the dark paisley serpent's there
And the right place to be is right on the line between them
Put one foot where you understand, that gives you security
But it's kinda dull because hey you know everything
That's going on there and that isn't what people are like,
They don't want just security
Dostoyevsky said, I love this,
If you gave people everything they wanted
They had nothing to eat but cake and nothing to do
But sit in warm pools and busy themselves
With the continuation of the species
The first thing they would do, well maybe after the first week
Was go kind of half insane
And smash everything up just so that something
That they didn't expect would happen
So that they'd have something interesting to do
And it's so right because the utopian notion
That if you just had all the material stuff you wanted that you,
You'd be

What would you be?
What would you do?
Well what would you be?
What would you do?
What would you be?
What would you do?
Well what would you be?
What would you do?

You'd just sit on the couch and watch TV
I mean you'd be, I don't know what, you'd be cutting yourself
Just for entertainment in no time flat, you know,
And that's the sort of thing that people do
So we're not adapted for security and utopia
We're adapted for a certain amount of security
Because you know we are vulnerable
But mostly we want to have one foot out
Where we don't know what the hell is going on
Because that's where you're alert and alive and tense and with it
I believe this and I believe it actually has something to do
With the hemispheric structure of the physiology of your brain
The right hemisphere looks roughly adapted to what you don't know
And the left hemisphere is adapted to the world that you do know
And the right place for you to be is halfway between them
You can tell that, that's what's so cool

What would you be?
What would you do?
We're not adapted for security and utopia
Well what would you be?
What would you do?
Mostly we want to have one foot out
Where we don't know what the hell is going on
What would you be?
And you want to be out there in the unknown enough
So that you keep updating yourself
Well what would you be?
What would you do?
That's where you're alert and alive

This tells you that this is actually reality
What's manifesting itself to you
You know that sense of active engagement you have in the world
When things are working well for you
You know, where you're where you should be at the right time
You're alert and on top of things and engaged
And you don't have much of a sense of time
And the sense of the tragedy of life sort of recedes
That's when you've got one foot
Where it's secure and one foot out in the unknown
And your brain signals to you that you're in the right place
By making what you're doing meaningful
That sense of meaning is actually a neurophysiological signal
That you've got the forces of the cosmos properly balanced
In your being at that moment
And that's why it feels so good
What else could it possibly be?

What would you be?
What would you do?
We're not adapted for security and utopia
Well what would you be?
What would you do?
Mostly we want to have one foot out
Where we don't know what the hell is going on
What would you be?
And you want to be out there in the unknown enough
So that you keep updating yourself
Well what would you be?
What would you do?
That's where you're alert and alive

You know that because that's
When you're having a really interesting conversation with someone
Or you're gripped by a book, or you're really into a movie
Or maybe something that you do as a, you know apart from your work
Or maybe even in your work, you're into it
And that's because you are in the right place at the right time
And your whole nervous system is signalling that to you
And I would say that's the sort of place
That you should be all the time
That's the recreation of paradise on earth, it's something like it
Because you are in the right place at the right time
When that is happening