Monday, 5 February 2007

Everything you know is right/wrong

I used to call it irreason. Like irrational/rational but rooted on reason.

It was not irrationality however but rather that grey area between rational and unreasonable. Most of the time what we do in life can't be justifed at all. And yet at the same time it is not in anyway wrong. It seems that we are free to do it, just can't find any provable reason to do it. Well the argument was then do it. It's spontaneous, suprising, passionate, Romantic (in the German sense), breaking expectations and thought patterns: its irreasonable.

Well sober that idea up, chuck a bucket of cold water over it, and its much like the experience of the world as a whole.

Things seem one way for sure, but then can't they be another way also? Its definitely a tree, until someone decides to make a table out of it. I was definitely going to be a Veterinary surgeon, except now I work in a polymer lab. "My muse" was the unquestional, inescapable, centre of my life, but now I realise she is no more and I'm free. I was inconsolably unhappy but now I'm bordering on peaceful and happy. The Iraq war is definitely wrong, except doesn't this give people an opportunity to rebalance power in the Middle East which will be essential for secure oil and eventual peace? It seems all things that were so sure, are no longer so sure.

That said it does not mean the world is a chaos where everything goes. We know clearly - like with irreason - what is reasonable and what is unreasonable. People who wish to harm others are wrong. People who help one another are right. It is not chaos, yet looked at closely nothing seems one sided anymore.

Behave morally and with virtue and the mind and the world need have no boundaries and no tiresome limits, rules or fixed conceptions.

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