Pessimism
The defining quality of man is to make a mark.
From remote jungle to metropolitan bureacracy, men make marks. Stamp present.
Carimbar presença.
Paradox has seen freshly, proudly and innocently, cleared 'virgin' forest. Deflowered. Nicely tidied up.
It is what we do. We tidy things up, sort things out, and make our mark.
Suddenly, around 200 years ago, our ability to mark make began to increase exponentially. Imagine, the hull below was constructed well over a hundred years ago to tidy up mackerel for our plates.
A century of cleaning.
Parodox is a pessimist. We WILL destroy ourselves through our obsessive sorting and rearranging. I am sorry, it is inevitable.
In the meantime make merry, its later than you think.
Nicely made mark
From remote jungle to metropolitan bureacracy, men make marks. Stamp present.
Carimbar presença.
Paradox has seen freshly, proudly and innocently, cleared 'virgin' forest. Deflowered. Nicely tidied up.
It is what we do. We tidy things up, sort things out, and make our mark.
Suddenly, around 200 years ago, our ability to mark make began to increase exponentially. Imagine, the hull below was constructed well over a hundred years ago to tidy up mackerel for our plates.
A century of cleaning.
Parodox is a pessimist. We WILL destroy ourselves through our obsessive sorting and rearranging. I am sorry, it is inevitable.
In the meantime make merry, its later than you think.
Nicely made mark
posted by Administrator at 10:48 am
2 Comments:
a very nice and thoughtful post.
it was yesterday evening when i went for a walk in my neighbourhood and noticed how they truned a rather big greenery with birches and maple trees into a pack of condo's... despite petitions people signed to the borough(almost 4 years ago i used to live around here and remember the fights people did with the borough and the condo constrcuting company)... and now seeing those condo's made me feel really disgusted...
yeah, our marks are devastating... we, humans, are proud of being smarter than animals, being able to do things animals can't... but we are not yet able to see far enough.
alas!
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thanks for the comment... i will follow your ideas about Jesus and actually i do believe that any faith emerges from an idea. the notion of "holiness" that i will try to discuss in my next post is a confusing matter (at least to me).
Thank you for your comment, and your comment on the infertility post below.
On pessimism I sometimes think that one can only be truly happy once one accepts the pessimism, randomness and total meaninglessness of life. You need to realise it is all nothing before you can truly enjoy it.
On the other hand, sometimes I believe in fate and karma and I shall post more on this another day.
Regarding infertility, I agree with you, it is more than perspective, and we feel this primeval urge to procreate even though we may try to rationalise against it.
I suppose in my post I was saying "spare a thought for the infertile" because if you cannot respond to this primeval urge it can really mess you up. Yet infertile people have been persecuted or marginalised on many occasions. (kings divorce infertile wives etc. etc.)
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