>>It is an article of faith that I hold: that we can collect and trade facts all day long, but actual Truth is forever just beyond reach. That goes far toward quenching my passion, at least.<,
I agree with you 100%. "Reality is an illusion so highly established it takes on the form of a massive hallucination". In addition everyone's reality is different based on their nature, nurture and events of the moment, so very relative.
I understand that cold!
Nevertheless we must exist and survive. So we have to do something. I think our number one goal for the last 200,000 years has been to survive and find comfort.
The realities which you outline makes an existential existence the reality. So how do we exist in this existential world which is both totally relative and subjective?
Well, we make decisions which no one can totally defend, but that is where democracy comes in as an idea and is so wonderful. The entire tribe gets their say, and we agree and compromise.
But, that leads to another problem. What and who are correct? No way to know. That is the human condition.
It seems like cultural evolution is moving us toward kindness and fairness. I cannot defend either intellectually, but they do tend to seem right to me.
Maybe in the cosmic sheme of things, compassion is as important to civilization as killing is to evolution?? |
