the quest is to be philosophy.....
promethean75 wrote:the quest is to be philosophy.....
You mean live a life that would be a storyline Dostoevsky or Kafka would gladly develop into a three part novel series? Well shit man, I'm good then.
what values best represent your life?
promethean75 wrote:what values best represent your life?
mehrwert, Pete... a whole shit load of it. When they bury me they're gonna etch into my tomb: 'here lies one surplus-value creating sonofabitch'.
Tab wrote:Hey peter, still breaking the keyboards I see.
Hit 50 myself a few years ago, definitely puts you on the big think path. I think it's a bit pessimistic to acuse the posters here of a simple dalliance with whatever philosophy is. To me it's a positive, even if what poster x writes is meaningless recursive trash. People grow and change as we have at our rarefied ages. Questioning, thinking and writing is a start many never make.
With all their rough edges, complexes and reflexive venom, they are part of our hope. However meagre.
Tab wrote:Done so much teaching now I'm almost retired. Good to see you still around too.
Guess I'll stick around till I don't - I liked your view of historical context added to current events as a shock-absorber, too much outrage is fuelled by simple novelty. "How could this happen..?" Yells everyone. "Well duh, it happened 50 years ago and a 100 years ago, and 250 years ago before that... What else were you expecting..?" Yells anyone who's read a bit of history. Tools change, events stay the same. Well, erm, kinda sorta etc. Not sure whether population density and mass communication speeds things up, or slows things down, both I expect.
Anyway, a belated happy new year to you, hope the next decade brings a little less disaster than the last.
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