Does life seem to be more like a movie (in other words, formulaic) with the more philosophizing you do?

Question

I look around and it seems like everyone fits a role in a movie but sometimes the audacity of some people's actions makes me wonder whether they wake up everyday not even thinking about the past or the future and just living every minute off of basic instinct. I'm not saying it's necessarily a negative thing--in fact, choosing to be simple when being complex gets tired feels like the reward for all of the philosophizing I do--but it does contrast with spending time to recognize the significance of every aspect.

Answer 1

You may see life is like a movie.  But it is the exact opposite.  Movies are like life.

Answer 2

When I was younger, I read Herman Hesse and it messed me all up. Buddhism accurately described the "fakeness" of reality but offered a cartoon alternative (Nirvana) that any child could see was "less dense" than the reality I was escaping. Less density as any reader of Sartre knows, is what distinguished reality from imagination. When they go into the Matrix world from the programmed world, the Matrix world is OBVIOUSLY fake because it is less dense with detail.

So Buddhism left me in a cardboard world with no release. And I never even espoused Buddhism, this was just the result of my incidental contact with it. This is why I consider Buddhism so pernicious and evil.

Later, I discovered Taoism, and the message I got was "Play the game as if it was real." The more I invest in reality, the more "real" it gets. Detachment has it's place, but it is not a source of any kind of contentment. Better to play the lie out than sit there and point at it, when you have nothing better to do, and no alternative to living it.