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Skitto · 07-05-2009, 11:09 PM

In a modern mentality full of openminded, big picture information and points of view, what the heck does it matter?

"it" can variously mean a few things: "people" for one, mortalness, mortality, and gradient variations between; "good vs evil" and all that can allude to.

Now I see a few things happening to our latest batch of geniuses who have to take in all this info-garble. Either they drive themselves into the ground with apathy, or they "shed their wings and fly" so to speak. There of course will be the ones to follow them above average to mid-average survivalists, the ones who can most readily utilize the most pertinent bits of wisdom to keep up. To me this all sounds a bit too much like the primitive hyper-future of H.G. Wells' "Time Machine", or the Seuss story "The Lorax"

But what does it matter? why even consider the possibility? Can't philosophy but help itself to turn into one of these nameless ideas that could be misconstrued when given a name, like "prophecy" or "religion" or "a nice tool for survival" and just completely fall out of the realm of linear, or even abstract, thought?

07-05-2009, 11:09 PM	#1 (permalink)
Skitto Crazy Location: Westernmost Continental U.S.	Does it matter? In a modern mentality full of openminded, big picture information and points of view, what the heck does it matter? "it" can variously mean a few things: "people" for one, mortalness, mortality, and gradient variations between; "good vs evil" and all that can allude to. Now I see a few things happening to our latest batch of geniuses who have to take in all this info-garble. Either they drive themselves into the ground with apathy, or they "shed their wings and fly" so to speak. There of course will be the ones to follow them above average to mid-average survivalists, the ones who can most readily utilize the most pertinent bits of wisdom to keep up. To me this all sounds a bit too much like the primitive hyper-future of H.G. Wells' "Time Machine", or the Seuss story "The Lorax" But what does it matter? why even consider the possibility? Can't philosophy but help itself to turn into one of these nameless ideas that could be misconstrued when given a name, like "prophecy" or "religion" or "a nice tool for survival" and just completely fall out of the realm of linear, or even abstract, thought? __________________ Yeah, well, you're just that awesome, I guess. It's not like I guessed so anyways.