Reading "Sophie's World"
Philosophy is silly. If it's really true that we all live on a metaphorical "white rabbit", and we're all microscopic fleas burrowed down into the fur, and only philosophers will climb to the tops of the hairs to see what is all around them, does that really make them so special? I question, of course I do. But philosophy is a dead career, because science is evolved enough to eliminate the need. Scientists are really the ones crawling to the tops of the hairs to look around, philosophers are burrowed as deep into the fur as any of us, thinking about what MIGHT be up there, but if they really climbed the hairs, they'd all see the same thing. What is it? Damned if I know. I think the fur is pretty interesting for now. When I figure out what's all around me, maybe I'll go looking for more.
Philosophers are, after all, mostly unhappy.
So this is my life as a flea, as someone who tries to figure out her here and now. Leave the rest of it to science, there are nearly seven billion people in the world, and if we all spent our time trying to figure out divine mysteries, we'd never get anything done.
I think life in real-time is much more exciting
Philosophers are, after all, mostly unhappy.
So this is my life as a flea, as someone who tries to figure out her here and now. Leave the rest of it to science, there are nearly seven billion people in the world, and if we all spent our time trying to figure out divine mysteries, we'd never get anything done.
I think life in real-time is much more exciting