Cellmold
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Firstly I know this has probably been done before, but I thought: hey why not?
On another forum someone posted this:
To which I replied:
What are your opinions? Sorry if my post is pretentious, but it's generally how I think about the matter.
*Prepares to have his cheap philosophy torn apart by his 'intellectual superiors'.*
ps: Im waiting for a joke on the banality of this topic....
On another forum someone posted this:
I've been asked that one too many times in my life.
You take out the trash, you file court papers, you pay taxes. These are trivial things that "just exist" outside the realm of a non-developed intuitive. They're just "there". Concrete, in the here-and-now, and since they are so incorporated into society, these things must be valid and socially acceptable hence how it seems to "blend" into everyday life.
Don't get me wrong, I don't have a profound philosophical experiences with running errands , but everything comes with a complex framework attached to it. What if my gov't was paying my taxes, or what if money didn't exist? Have you ever tried to have this type of a conversation with your daily sensor? You'll seem like a creep!
But how did it come to be? Why has it become normal to live in a complex society in which you are born to automatically accept the system around you as something that "just is"? If I were born perhaps centuries ago, I would not be burdened by fulfilling my duties to file my taxes on time, yet something more primitive. I had no choice in this... why should I adhere?
To which I replied:
This was the unfortunately natural progression of humanity. I dont think it could be avoided.
We have jailed ourselves in chains of commerce and production. You dont need to adhere, no one does, but you will, even if you dont want to; because even if a person were to escape from all the conventional trappings of so called civilised life, he would still find himself building the same systems elsewhere, even if he had never experienced such systems, had never been touched by them he would end up doing this in some form or another.
The content might change, as in language, money, technical advances, culture etc.......but the format would not. It is inherent in our minds, we put meaning to that which has none and through this meaning we build our realities up into something tangible.
It is ironic really, we are caught by the very thing which is what leads us to question such systems in the first place: Our imagination. So we continue in an endless cycle, appalled at the banality of our every day lives, we seek to escape into some mental realm of escape, but we always forget that such banalities were a product of that same imagination and thus we are stuck with it....until the end of our lives.
Hmm that sounds depressing, but dont worry, we have also created such entertaining wonders as well, so with the banality comes the abnormality, the special, the fantastic, the brilliantly conceptual and the original.
To me it is merely two sides of the same coin, we need the banality so that we can escape into the fantastical, one cannot exist without the other.
What are your opinions? Sorry if my post is pretentious, but it's generally how I think about the matter.
*Prepares to have his cheap philosophy torn apart by his 'intellectual superiors'.*
ps: Im waiting for a joke on the banality of this topic....