Y'know,
there has been a deplorable lack of spirit amongst the drab middle american sections of our society.
people succumb to dreariness and nihilism...
Why believe in anything at all when our entire lives are meaningless? When there is no ultimate point to life...
Why not just give up!
Why not just stop trying to be positive and just drolly go by your rote actions day by day with a kind of dreary conformity...
This would work just fine, I'd suppose - "pragmatically".
But I posit, in antithesis to this existential nihilism,
Teleology
Which translates as "purposiveness" or things, lives, beings, time and space as having a "purpose".
Post-Modernism as well as the current public zeitgeist seems to have banished teleology and purposiveness to the trash dumpsters of history....
But I'v been dumpster diving in the facts relegated to the back heap of history-
...and let me tell you.
PURPOSE IS LOVE
PURPOSE IS HEART
PURPOSE IS LIFE
...and any nihilist who tries to confound us into a po-mo feeling of purposelessness is doing an active disservice to the founding spirit of the United States of America!
Our founders truly believed, even Hume, in some kind of teleological purposiveness,
the purpose of FREEDOM
the purpose of JUSTICE
the purpose of LIBERTY
the purpose of DEMOCRACY
Democracy became our treasure trove of independence from a brutal monarchy who merely wanted to extract value from afar off.... we should be wary of that sort of thing now adays!
So what I say to you in this current state of emergency is that the purpose of our lives may get a little weird...
"But when the going gets weird,
the weird turn pro."
- Hunter S. Thompson
there has been a deplorable lack of spirit amongst the drab middle american sections of our society.
people succumb to dreariness and nihilism...
Why believe in anything at all when our entire lives are meaningless? When there is no ultimate point to life...
Why not just give up!
Why not just stop trying to be positive and just drolly go by your rote actions day by day with a kind of dreary conformity...
This would work just fine, I'd suppose - "pragmatically".
But I posit, in antithesis to this existential nihilism,
Teleology
Which translates as "purposiveness" or things, lives, beings, time and space as having a "purpose".
Post-Modernism as well as the current public zeitgeist seems to have banished teleology and purposiveness to the trash dumpsters of history....
But I'v been dumpster diving in the facts relegated to the back heap of history-
...and let me tell you.
PURPOSE IS LOVE
PURPOSE IS HEART
PURPOSE IS LIFE
...and any nihilist who tries to confound us into a po-mo feeling of purposelessness is doing an active disservice to the founding spirit of the United States of America!
Our founders truly believed, even Hume, in some kind of teleological purposiveness,
the purpose of FREEDOM
the purpose of JUSTICE
the purpose of LIBERTY
the purpose of DEMOCRACY
Democracy became our treasure trove of independence from a brutal monarchy who merely wanted to extract value from afar off.... we should be wary of that sort of thing now adays!
So what I say to you in this current state of emergency is that the purpose of our lives may get a little weird...
"But when the going gets weird,
the weird turn pro."
- Hunter S. Thompson
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