The Irish have it right.
Intelligence is our savior and our doom. I remember from one of the lectures back in college on Romanticism the discussion we had about various Romantic philosophers. One in particular was focused on German Romantic philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831). Hegel, in a nutshell, believed that humankind will eventually evolve to a point where people will be so intelligent that we will know how to free ourselves from our physical existence and reach a state of Utopia in the form of pure aura. To be honest, I really have no idea what he meant, and maybe by not understanding I am only proving him right, and thus my brain has not evolved to it's ultimate state. I do, however, understand that we, humankind on a whole, do not respect each other and ourselves, which yet again works in the favor of Hegel's philosophy. Apparently we need to work on our evolution...
It's a funny thing we do, communicating. We go out and talk to other human beings about being a human being, and yet the conversations usually sound less human and more mechanical, and the rituals we speak of are the same from day to day, and yet, even after repeating ourselves over and over, speaking about our jobs and what we do there, what we'd like to own, etc..., we still say the same damn things over again. On a rare occasion I will hear talks of spirituality, the meaning of life, the dreams we have, hopes for a better future, love, and whatever else that is not superficial and stale. On those rare occasions I feel most excited and motivated. On those rare occasions I see the world elevated... maybe this is what Hegel was talking about... maybe it is when we all vibrate on a more spiritual level that we near evolution. But to me this vibration ebbs and flows, moves up and down like an audio analyzer, once we nearly reach it we let it sink to the bottom again.
A co-worker of mine, who moved here from Ireland a while ago, told me that the people who gathered after work at the pubs never spoke of their jobs. She said, "they don't ask you what you do because what you do is what you need to do to obtain a living. They asked you 'who are you?' 'What kind of music do you like, what do you do for hobbies, what are your goals, your dreams, pains, fears, and whatnot?'" She continued to tell me that it didn't matter if you were wealthy or poor, if you were a doctor, lawyer, bum, or waitress. The people wanted to know WHO you were.
Maybe we can start evolution and tell people who it is that we really are, because, I for one, am sick of all the lies, the sugar-coated nonsense, the superficial crap.
It's a funny thing we do, communicating. We go out and talk to other human beings about being a human being, and yet the conversations usually sound less human and more mechanical, and the rituals we speak of are the same from day to day, and yet, even after repeating ourselves over and over, speaking about our jobs and what we do there, what we'd like to own, etc..., we still say the same damn things over again. On a rare occasion I will hear talks of spirituality, the meaning of life, the dreams we have, hopes for a better future, love, and whatever else that is not superficial and stale. On those rare occasions I feel most excited and motivated. On those rare occasions I see the world elevated... maybe this is what Hegel was talking about... maybe it is when we all vibrate on a more spiritual level that we near evolution. But to me this vibration ebbs and flows, moves up and down like an audio analyzer, once we nearly reach it we let it sink to the bottom again.
A co-worker of mine, who moved here from Ireland a while ago, told me that the people who gathered after work at the pubs never spoke of their jobs. She said, "they don't ask you what you do because what you do is what you need to do to obtain a living. They asked you 'who are you?' 'What kind of music do you like, what do you do for hobbies, what are your goals, your dreams, pains, fears, and whatnot?'" She continued to tell me that it didn't matter if you were wealthy or poor, if you were a doctor, lawyer, bum, or waitress. The people wanted to know WHO you were.
Maybe we can start evolution and tell people who it is that we really are, because, I for one, am sick of all the lies, the sugar-coated nonsense, the superficial crap.