Talk Talk Talk and No Action. Tsk.

I wonder if I should do it. Maybe I shouldn’t. But maybe in the long run it will reflect positively on my role as a very well rounded student. But then again, I’d also have to wake up extremely early on Saturday to carry piles of dirt around when I could be dreaming blissfully in the softness of my bed.

Maybe.

Or maybe not.

Thinking things twice never works out. Overthinking things brings about cowardice and the eventual happening of inaction.

In Friederich Nietzhe’s analysis of the character Hamlet, he takes into account his overly thoughtfulness and compares him the ‘Dionysian’ man.

Friedrich made up the whole concept of the Dionysian state as being based off the god of wine, which stands for intoxication, impulsiveness, intuition, and exuberance. And apparently, said state brings about an indifference towards reality which makes memories and the like slip from your conscience. And when you’ve awaken from this state and are brought into reality, you experience a nausea that renders you so full of will and self-discipline you’d probably seem as if you have a stick stuck up your ass.

Apparently, Hamlet is like the Dionysian man in that he is impulsive and accepting of reality. They both have “gained knowledge, and nausea inhibits action.” Hamlet is an intellectual who is smart (obviously) but that intelligence causes him to overthink things which is actually him doubting himself and pronouncing himself a coward. But in not acting he is actually still in silence that may bear all of his arguing thoughts as well as possible evil plots. This thought is even expressed by Hamlet himself in a soliloquy where he is having an argument with himself. And those types of people find it ridiculous to try to set the world right, and the possibility that they, a grain of sand and hugely populated world, could make a difference, is laughable. They are realistic.

“Action requires the veil of illusion,” and in sarcastic humor, Nietzsche refutes “Jack the Dreamer’s” cheap wisdom of reflecting too much on all the possibilities not letting him get to the action. In essence, you need to have hope and some sort of positivity to do something because actions are humans’ idea of something done to receive something in return. We need to have an illusion that what we’re doing will succeed. Hamlet and the ‘Dionysian’ man don’t act, not because they spend too much time hoping on all the possible leprechauns and smiley rainbows they might encounter, but because they are realistic and know that they can’t change the world.

Any by change the world I mean somehow bring your dad back to life and make your uncle disappear with a flick of your hand. Or that’s what Hamlet would want.

Friederich is actually onto something here because even halfway through the play, it is visible that Hamlet only talks endlessly and rants like a freaking parrot and yet doesn’t do anything regarding his thoughts.

Talk talk talk and no action.

That’s Hamlet for you.