Friday, February 29, 2008
Welcome to Modernity!
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Unlike Farrakhan, who has a public image to maintain, many Americans are abandoning their childhood religion nowadays. This is a good thing. Interestingly, Catholicism has suffered major losses, no doubt as a result of the recent sex scandals involving pedofile priests. This erosion is certainly the direct result of 'information.' Information is a good thing. We live in 'The Information Age,' and we can expect that old and odius ideas will evaporate as a result.
You are made of this stuff. Follow the link to here.
But we are more than matter, we are mind. Welcome to modernity!
Who am I? What am I? These questions are unanswerable. They may even be meaningless.
Which brings us to the current moment as 'human beings' living together in a Nihilistic world:
Now what?!
Subjectivism solves nothing, although it is an interesting idea. Berkely was a genius, not that it matters subjectively. Solipsism solves everything, of course, but is unpalatable: Who wants to be alone?
Kant? Who understands Kant? Not me. Bertrand Russell, maybe, but not fucking likely. Certainly not Kant.
I could go on and on, of course, but you get the idea: Voltaire, for example.
So, given that our sophisticated investigations have produced no concrete results, are we justified in relying on children for ultimate information?
Unlike Farrakhan, who has a public image to maintain, many Americans are abandoning their childhood religion nowadays. This is a good thing. Interestingly, Catholicism has suffered major losses, no doubt as a result of the recent sex scandals involving pedofile priests. This erosion is certainly the direct result of 'information.' Information is a good thing. We live in 'The Information Age,' and we can expect that old and odius ideas will evaporate as a result.
You are made of this stuff. Follow the link to here.
But we are more than matter, we are mind. Welcome to modernity!
Who am I? What am I? These questions are unanswerable. They may even be meaningless.
Which brings us to the current moment as 'human beings' living together in a Nihilistic world:
Now what?!
Subjectivism solves nothing, although it is an interesting idea. Berkely was a genius, not that it matters subjectively. Solipsism solves everything, of course, but is unpalatable: Who wants to be alone?
Kant? Who understands Kant? Not me. Bertrand Russell, maybe, but not fucking likely. Certainly not Kant.
I could go on and on, of course, but you get the idea: Voltaire, for example.
So, given that our sophisticated investigations have produced no concrete results, are we justified in relying on children for ultimate information?
