Aug 20, 2005 16:50
"...everything was beautiful, and nothing lost..."
I can't stop staring at that quote as it stares back at me for three hours a day. Slaughterhouse Five has such an interesting title for a book that portrays the world in such a manner.
...Actually that's what bothers me. I don't think that everything could actually ever be beautiful. Not to mention that if it were beautiful, downfall would be sure to follow shortly.
...What if everything was beautiful for only hours? How long would would it take to ruin it and how long would the state of hell exist? How much do we have to spend just to be happy?
... Economically, every time there is a consumer surplus, those individuals completely happy, the floor usually drops down below them and their happiness becomes their payment for that brief period they experienced an upward ecstatic nature.
... What if we must trade off happiness in life as well? Maybe there is an economic equation in which all we must do is plug in the period of time we were happy and we will be able to tell the exact second happiness will end and the evil period that exists in its wake.
Wow.... life blows.