Why Intelligent people are always alone - Alan Watts pic.twitter.com/uhoUJvC0V4
— Leaders 𝕏 Junction (@LeadersJunction) February 24, 2026
“There are situations when one owes solitude to other people, if only not to bother them. But, more than this, the multitude needs solitaries as it needs postmen, doctors, and fishermen. They go out and they send, or bring, something back—even if they send no word and vanish finally from sight. The solitary is as necessary to our common sanity as wilderness, as the forest where no one goes, as the waterfall in a canyon which no one has ever seen or heard. We do not see our hearts. I do not expect to be all that solitary for, as a paradoxical person, I am also gregarious and favor the rhythm of withdrawal and return.”
― Alan W. Watts, Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown
This is evidently the consummation of “l’art pourl’art.” Mankind, which in Homer’s time was an object of contemplation for the Olympian gods, now is one for itself. Its self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.
(WB, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
In: Illuminations, edited by Hannah Arendt,
translated by Harry Zohn, from the 1935 essay
New York: Schocken Books, 196)
This is believed to be the first comedy film about war
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