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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Neocon who wrote (7400)3/5/2001 12:42:52 PM
From: thames_sider  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
If we do not [persist], then most of the things we care about are transient and futile:

Transient, maybe. Futile? Hardly. At the risk of sounding poetic, is a rose futile because the beautiful flower it grows each year withers and dies? I guess it depends how you define futility.
If you enjoy your life - for that matter, even if you don't - how is it futile? Because it hasn't changed anything? Persistence wouldn't alter that... I have yet to see any proof of anyone personally and verifiably affecting anything after their death [their ideas are another matter...].

We have one life each - some shorter than others. It's wasted if you don't make the most of it, however you choose to define that. If you can contribute something to the lives of others, which they enjoy or can build on, so much the better... but even the most wasted life is no more and no less futile than (say) Shakespeare's - for Shakespeare - however much more the latter may have contributed to the rest of us...
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