TM 231: Everything Passes
Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live." Haruki Murakami.
I call shenanigans. I'd call it a much-less-nice word than that, but I've apparently got a family audience to please these days. That's why they cut all the three-way references from the movie.
I get the point, life is precious and transitory, seize the day, et cetera, et cetera. But I can't think of any worse reaction to that condition than saying, 'Let's live like everything is going to pass.' That's irresponsible as hell.
Individual lives pass, certainly. None of us is going to live forever -- and that's precisely why we've got to think about the legacy we're going to leave for future generations. That's why we can't keep doing things the way they've always been done. I'm not saying anybody consciously believes, 'Forget my children, and my children's children, I just want the world to run well enough that it doesn't go completely to hell in my lifetime.' But a lot of people live that way. A lot of people who run the world are happy to live that way.
I'm not. That's what makes me Iron Man.
I call shenanigans. I'd call it a much-less-nice word than that, but I've apparently got a family audience to please these days. That's why they cut all the three-way references from the movie.
I get the point, life is precious and transitory, seize the day, et cetera, et cetera. But I can't think of any worse reaction to that condition than saying, 'Let's live like everything is going to pass.' That's irresponsible as hell.
Individual lives pass, certainly. None of us is going to live forever -- and that's precisely why we've got to think about the legacy we're going to leave for future generations. That's why we can't keep doing things the way they've always been done. I'm not saying anybody consciously believes, 'Forget my children, and my children's children, I just want the world to run well enough that it doesn't go completely to hell in my lifetime.' But a lot of people live that way. A lot of people who run the world are happy to live that way.
I'm not. That's what makes me Iron Man.