It's like having TEA and NO TEA at the same time.
Some philosphical rambling wherein I pretend to know what I'm talking about. Sort of. Read it, reply, agree, argue, or ignore. Whatever. Ignoring is probably the sane choice, but not the fun one.
I've been trying to decide which I like more, absurdism or surrealism. The way I understand it, surrealism dislikes normality and tries to make the world weirder while absurdism excepts that the world is already plenty weird, thank you very much, and accepts that weirdness as being perfectly fine and groovy.
I appreciate surrealism, but it's point seems to be a complete disconnect from reality and not making sense. Absurdism is nonsensical, but it makes it's own kind of sense. It breaks rules where surrealism simply ignores them. Absurdism puts things together that shouldn't go together. Things that shouldn't work do. That's how my mind works.
For example, it would seem that teleology and naturalism are entirely at odds, yet I can agree with both. Form follows function, but function also follows form. We have eyes because we need them to see and we can see because we have eyes. It's generally believed that if one is true the other must be false - but can't they both be true? They lend a completeness to each other, they just come from different directions. If you walk from your house to the store, or from the store to your house you've still covered the same ground, walked the same road. There's no reason you can't go both directions.
It makes most people uncomfortable to hold two contradictory ideas in their head at the same time. But if you can... doesn't that mean you know more? Understand more? How can you be sure what you really believe if you don't attempt to believe the alternative at least once.
What exists, exists. What we perceive, we perceive. Often, though not always, those two things overlap. Most of the time the world exists as we see it, but there are things we see that aren't there and there are things there that we do not see. There is more in reality than our minds can hold and there is more in our minds than reality can hold. We live and interact and communicate in the area where these two different infinite spaces intersect.
Absurdism posits that the efforts of humanity to find meaning in the universe will ultimately fail (and, hence, are absurd) because no such meaning exists, at least in relation to humanity.
But what is it called when you find meaning in meaninglessness? When it makes sense that nothing makes sense?
I've been trying to decide which I like more, absurdism or surrealism. The way I understand it, surrealism dislikes normality and tries to make the world weirder while absurdism excepts that the world is already plenty weird, thank you very much, and accepts that weirdness as being perfectly fine and groovy.
I appreciate surrealism, but it's point seems to be a complete disconnect from reality and not making sense. Absurdism is nonsensical, but it makes it's own kind of sense. It breaks rules where surrealism simply ignores them. Absurdism puts things together that shouldn't go together. Things that shouldn't work do. That's how my mind works.
For example, it would seem that teleology and naturalism are entirely at odds, yet I can agree with both. Form follows function, but function also follows form. We have eyes because we need them to see and we can see because we have eyes. It's generally believed that if one is true the other must be false - but can't they both be true? They lend a completeness to each other, they just come from different directions. If you walk from your house to the store, or from the store to your house you've still covered the same ground, walked the same road. There's no reason you can't go both directions.
It makes most people uncomfortable to hold two contradictory ideas in their head at the same time. But if you can... doesn't that mean you know more? Understand more? How can you be sure what you really believe if you don't attempt to believe the alternative at least once.
What exists, exists. What we perceive, we perceive. Often, though not always, those two things overlap. Most of the time the world exists as we see it, but there are things we see that aren't there and there are things there that we do not see. There is more in reality than our minds can hold and there is more in our minds than reality can hold. We live and interact and communicate in the area where these two different infinite spaces intersect.
Absurdism posits that the efforts of humanity to find meaning in the universe will ultimately fail (and, hence, are absurd) because no such meaning exists, at least in relation to humanity.
But what is it called when you find meaning in meaninglessness? When it makes sense that nothing makes sense?