Some supportive points for mindfulness:
- Treating everyday things like works leads you not enjoying them and doing them poorly. Yet the bulk amount of time in your life is spent doing these very activities.'
- Finding enjoyment in perfecting simple things actually makes a lot sense, as its presented.
- If you stub your toe, drop a dish, etc, and don't practise doing the movement properly you are likely to make the mistake again.
Support in Absurdist:
- He puts the radio, with its neatly wrapped cord, under a sink.
- "Gentle old cop making a soft arrest"
- the contrast between 'gentle' and 'soft' with arrest is clearly absurd.
- 10 month year with 26 days
- Taking your time in a gun fight.
Support for Satirizing (comical critique):
- The objects are clearly magical.
- The utensils instantly drop exactly where they need to without sorting.
- The toothpaste cup basically cleans itself.
- The chair actually does move in front of him.
- The contrast between the do-easy mindfulness and the ignorant way of living are infomercial-level exaggerated.
The ending summarizes the absurd double-entendre: a gun-fight is a simple movement done very well in a zen sort of way (the trick to moving fast is to practice slowly), but at the same time its clearly absurd. Its also a gun-fight. You don't have time.
Really great video. I'll be watching it again