Philosophy, if she ever dares to advance, must be relinquished to the layman. She must be prayed from the cold, dead grip of the scholastics and torn from the shrewd opportunists promising "salvation" and the "meaning of life" in bold letters across their tawdry self-help manuals. For she is a tool, a means...but not the means to an end. Philosophy is an acceptance of absurdity, for all enlightenment is at first glance absurd.
Humanity, if ever to resolve, must accept that it inhabits a vessel incapable of godhood and devoid of truth. To be one and never the other is it's just punishment. And yet it must aspire...for apathy is less than zero.
We all behave as if this life is real and the consequence of our actions truly exist. We assume we are not dreaming...further assuming that we can discern waking life from dream. Perhaps this is our greatest folly?
- Randy Young (Nov.2008)
7 years ago
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