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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dayuhan who wrote (7549)	3/6/2001 1:19:50 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

First, this was not a speculative argument, but a laying bare of the possible points of view as I see them. Second, when I take care of a child, I presume that his fate matters, not that it will merely be another rock thrown into the stream of time to briefly disturb the waters. Third, just because something is futile doesn't mean that we don't care. As in the Myth of Sisyphus, we may be condemned to roll the rock up the hill, only to have it roll back and accomplish nothing, and find our dignity in accepting it as our task. That is not an ignoble idea, but it does entail a recognition that, in the end, our strivings are futile. One of the interesting things that I am finding is that this idea is being treated as novel, when it is a persistent theme of existentialist philosophy and associated literature, and practically defines one element in the modern sensibility. Nietzsche took for granted that with the Death of God, the problem to be faced was how to escape from nihilism. Are none of you acquainted with ideas like the Abyss and angst?......