In this second in a series of four discussions with young people in Amsterdam J. Krishnamurti picks up the theme of the previous talk - namely the question: 'what is one to do, what kind of action or activities one has to be involved in a world that is so confused, brutal, without any sense of affection?'. The major issue, he says, is what is a human being to do, what shall be his life, not only for a few months but throughout the rest of his life. How shall we live? He enquires whether it is better to become a radical, join some sect that wants to overturn the established order; upset the applecart of societal norms, or to 'be the ordinary person who accepts life as it is, the office, the marriage, the family, going to the office for the next 40 years every day and just giving up at the end of it, dying. That is what the average person does.' One questioner's response is to ask whether it is possible to 'just be a man, accepting all things that are happening around one'. As always, J. Krishnamurti's answer is a series of ever more probing and penetrating questions that lead the young people into a spiral of ever more intensive thought.