An
ability to abstractly interact with one's thought-space is essential to
living consciously. Most people never bother to develop the talent. It
should be a requisite for living beyond a certain age in the present
era. Those who cannot fully comprehend reality are most likely to damage
its inhabitants - and, presently, they are free to do so with impunity.
Even the very best intentions of profoundly ignorant people can only
amount to chaotic change.
Tell me why this is acceptable to YOU.
Explain to me, if you don't mind, why you seem content to simply accept the pollution generated by willful ignorance. It spills into every aspect of your life, my life, your children's lives, your children's children's lives, growing exponentially every day and with every additional participant - yet you still inhale deeply, and claim the air tastes as fresh as ever.
Enlighten me as to how, in your mind, this is not an utterly insane way to live.
Pseudo-intellectuals love to say "live in the present" or "live for today" etc., meaning that one shouldn't fixate on circumstances or ideas beyond one's own scope of influence - with the goal being to minimize the psychological dissonance inherent in living within a flawed and largely unimprovable physical and social environment. Such weekend wisdom warriors fail to take this notion to its conclusion: to "live in the present," you must admit what "today" actually IS - in its entirety.
The fact of the matter is that living is *not* simply what you believe it to be; instead, it is only ever exactly what it *actually,* literally, is. If you pretend that life is great when life is, factually, quite bad... guess what? Life is still bad! You just can't be bothered to acknowledge it, or concern yourself with difficult—but possible—solutions – and that makes YOU part of the problem.
The activities and behaviors you pursue and exhibit in your waking hours may be objectively sensible, productive, rational; objectively fruitless, ignorant, irrational; or, more commonly, objectively somewhere between the two extremes. In all cases, your opinions/beliefs about the quality or value of your life are only useful if they coincide with reality. You ARE a measurable entity; while you are alive, you are either good or bad for humankind. You ARE accountable to other humans; while you are alive, you either harm or support every current and future person. You can not and do not control whether you are ultimately a "good" person simply by wishfully thinking that you are.
You can only control your worth as a human being by making deliberate actions to make yourself worth the energy and space you consume.
You cannot change this truth by turning your focus inward to arbitrarily narrow your perspective.
All belief is a delusion, all delusion has the potential to be damaging, and all those who embrace delusion will always be the last to see its *actual* effect on everyone else.
I'm going to share with you the one and only meaning of human life: DELIBERATE, INFORMED, PRODUCTIVE CHOICE. It's the only skill we have that's not either universal or common to every other organism on this planet. Without it, we might as well be insects.
Tell me why this is acceptable to YOU.
Explain to me, if you don't mind, why you seem content to simply accept the pollution generated by willful ignorance. It spills into every aspect of your life, my life, your children's lives, your children's children's lives, growing exponentially every day and with every additional participant - yet you still inhale deeply, and claim the air tastes as fresh as ever.
Enlighten me as to how, in your mind, this is not an utterly insane way to live.
Pseudo-intellectuals love to say "live in the present" or "live for today" etc., meaning that one shouldn't fixate on circumstances or ideas beyond one's own scope of influence - with the goal being to minimize the psychological dissonance inherent in living within a flawed and largely unimprovable physical and social environment. Such weekend wisdom warriors fail to take this notion to its conclusion: to "live in the present," you must admit what "today" actually IS - in its entirety.
The fact of the matter is that living is *not* simply what you believe it to be; instead, it is only ever exactly what it *actually,* literally, is. If you pretend that life is great when life is, factually, quite bad... guess what? Life is still bad! You just can't be bothered to acknowledge it, or concern yourself with difficult—but possible—solutions – and that makes YOU part of the problem.
The activities and behaviors you pursue and exhibit in your waking hours may be objectively sensible, productive, rational; objectively fruitless, ignorant, irrational; or, more commonly, objectively somewhere between the two extremes. In all cases, your opinions/beliefs about the quality or value of your life are only useful if they coincide with reality. You ARE a measurable entity; while you are alive, you are either good or bad for humankind. You ARE accountable to other humans; while you are alive, you either harm or support every current and future person. You can not and do not control whether you are ultimately a "good" person simply by wishfully thinking that you are.
You can only control your worth as a human being by making deliberate actions to make yourself worth the energy and space you consume.
You cannot change this truth by turning your focus inward to arbitrarily narrow your perspective.
All belief is a delusion, all delusion has the potential to be damaging, and all those who embrace delusion will always be the last to see its *actual* effect on everyone else.
I'm going to share with you the one and only meaning of human life: DELIBERATE, INFORMED, PRODUCTIVE CHOICE. It's the only skill we have that's not either universal or common to every other organism on this planet. Without it, we might as well be insects.
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