Guy: Have you heard about this Netflix thing? They've got over a hundred thousand movies.
Me: Yeah, I've had it for a while.
Guy: You could sleep for 8 hours and then just watch movies for the next 16 for your whole life. How does that sound?
Me: *laughs* Not too bad, I guess, if you have the money to do it.
This seemed to be the response he was hoping for because he immediately launched into a 20-minute lecture that ranged in topic from the difference between being a spectator and actually doing something to the inevitability of death to the wisdom of old age to the impotency of knowledge without action to the failings of the modern education system to the rejection of the true nature of democracy in America to the analogy of a citizen as a prisoner to the hierarchy of society [Weak->Strong->Smart->Rich] to the constants of humanity to the importance of "What?" over "Why?" to the importance of starting life with a solid foundation and more that I can't recall at the moment. All the while he sprinkled in personal anecdotes and appropriate metaphors.
Picture this: I, a 21 year old college student, squatting on the floor while pawing through a rack of $6 PC games at Big Lots [the poor-man's Wal-Mart] as a 60-ish stranger philosophizes for twenty minutes straight and we just so happen to be in the middle of Nowhere, Oklahoma. I half-expected him to end his lecture with "And if you want to know more about what I'm saying, check out Zeitgeist: The Movie], but he seemed satisfied enough with my responses to leave it at just the lecture.
I really to just tell him that there are somethings that can only be experienced in fiction so just let me buy my movies and games in peace, but I figured that would only prolong the discussion further and I really wanted to get back to pawing through $6 PC games.
The whole thing was just weird, really.
