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random philosophizing for the night
07.06.03 11:07 p.m.
Not like i have any of this hashed out quite to the extent i'd like to (or much at all, for that matter), but i wanted to get it down on (almost) paper for once. I'm trying to figure out to what extent reality is purely relative. sure, matter exists, but the way we interpret it is unique. for the most part, we allow a sort of majority rule to tell us what is real and what isn't; what is right and what is wrong. the most obvious example is color. when light refracts a certain way, someone decided that it would be called "red," got enough people to aggree with him, and ever since it has been called "red;" those who see the light refracting in a different way due to different eye or brain composition are called diseased or, more simply put, wrong. interesting how, in a bid for power, the majority deprecates those who see or do things differently due to different innate capabilities. it's why i'm so skeptical about...most everything. i'm loathe to trust someone else's interpretation, what someone else has found to be truth for himself. tied in with it all is a sense that stability in life is found through controlled self-deception or, at the very least, manipulation of thought. at the end of the day, we determine what we're going to accept. we have a certain way of looking at things, and if something runs askew of that, we simply can't accept it; there must be something wrong with it, whether we can figure it out or not, and that assumption is good enough for us. if that's not controlled ignorance, i don't know what is. the thing is, i don't really think it's a question of right and wrong, just one of fact. no single person on earth can answer all the questions, assuage all the doubts; hence, we all live in a state of ignorance to some extent - we choose our own path by picking which glaring questions we'll ignore. i honestly dislike this aspect of life since i am one who thoroughly enjoys answering questions, but i can currently see no way around it. i will simply choose the path that makes the most sense to me and keep my eyes open for possible solutions on the way. i can do little else. my reality will be perpetual dubiousness if necessary; i just don't want to be completely blind as some have stooped to be. a brief and terribly undescriptive return - 10.28.04 |