seeking meaning and purpose
Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2023 6:28 pm
while I wait for Iwannaplato to write the great philosophical
thread that will be so brilliant, that I Kropotkin will be ashamed
to write philosophy ever again, while we wait..
I thought I should engage with my sad and pathetic philosophy,
at least according to Iwanna....
the question we often ask in the writing and reading of
novels and plays and philosophy, what is the impact
of the current society/state have on literature?
but that is, as often the case, the wrong way to look at the
society/state and literature...
what would should be asking is this, what does the novel,
plays and philosophy currently says about the nature of
the society/state?
we see in the philosophy, literature and other works of
ART, that our current society/state is devoid of anything to
say.....let us take another look at the creative work of today,
movies..... Movies in our times, 2023, have no creative engagement
the "Superhero" movies that are so popular today, have no
creative or philosophical content...it is simply about the action,
not the ideas behind the "superhero" movies....why do we need,
in this time and place, "superhero" movies?
as Heidegger once said, (in an interview)...
"Only a god can save us now"
and that is the point of the "superhero" movie... only a god/
superhero can save us now.. the issues facing us are so big
and complicated that we cannot save ourselves...only a
god/superhero can save us... but I disagree with this "analysis"
I do believe that we can save ourselves.... and the path to
this is first and foremost, a belief in who we are.....
we keep thinking of ourselves as children who need to be
taken care of, I am not a child needing to be taking care of...
I am an adult...and I can take care of myself, thank you very
much....if the present does not offer us any creative possibilities,
then perhaps we should look to the future and see what is
possible for us... but we can't... the conservative holds to the
past as being the only possible guide we can use in our
understanding of what it means to be human....
and this conservative belief, holds sway in the media, the ARTS,
the movies, literature..
I disagree, as usual... I think we can find meaning and purpose
in our future... what should we be attempting to reach, as a goal,
can give us meaning and purpose that we otherwise might not
be able to grasp....to be kind and intellectual people, is a
goal to be desired and a goal that we can use to reach for,
a goal/purpose that we can use to strive for... to act upon,
to become.... we can use future goals/purposes to launch
in us, our path into the future.. what kind of
people should we be, is a call to action and a call
to become those people....what beliefs should we hold to
become the people we think we should be?
that is the question.......
we are here today, and we want to be there tomorrow, what is the plan
to make that journey? How do we go from here to there?
whereas our current ism, ideology, capitalism has no such
goal or purpose... it only goal is to make money, and seeking
money only leads to seeking more money, it has no other goal/purpose...
and that is the failure, part of anyway, of capitalism....
it has no other goal or purpose to engage with or in....
just make money..... and that is the only goal/purpose of
capitalism.... it certainly make no attempt at ethics or
morality... ethics and morality are antithetical to capitalism...
because to make money requires, demands us to betray and
even destroy ethics/morality... having ethics/morality
prevents one from gaining money...
which is the only goal/purpose worth seeking, at least in
Modern day America... to become, to be anything
anything other than wealthy or famous is hostile/forbidden
in capitalism....
what is the point of being human, what goal should we and ought
we to pursue? that is the question....
Kropotkin
thread that will be so brilliant, that I Kropotkin will be ashamed
to write philosophy ever again, while we wait..
I thought I should engage with my sad and pathetic philosophy,
at least according to Iwanna....
the question we often ask in the writing and reading of
novels and plays and philosophy, what is the impact
of the current society/state have on literature?
but that is, as often the case, the wrong way to look at the
society/state and literature...
what would should be asking is this, what does the novel,
plays and philosophy currently says about the nature of
the society/state?
we see in the philosophy, literature and other works of
ART, that our current society/state is devoid of anything to
say.....let us take another look at the creative work of today,
movies..... Movies in our times, 2023, have no creative engagement
the "Superhero" movies that are so popular today, have no
creative or philosophical content...it is simply about the action,
not the ideas behind the "superhero" movies....why do we need,
in this time and place, "superhero" movies?
as Heidegger once said, (in an interview)...
"Only a god can save us now"
and that is the point of the "superhero" movie... only a god/
superhero can save us now.. the issues facing us are so big
and complicated that we cannot save ourselves...only a
god/superhero can save us... but I disagree with this "analysis"
I do believe that we can save ourselves.... and the path to
this is first and foremost, a belief in who we are.....
we keep thinking of ourselves as children who need to be
taken care of, I am not a child needing to be taking care of...
I am an adult...and I can take care of myself, thank you very
much....if the present does not offer us any creative possibilities,
then perhaps we should look to the future and see what is
possible for us... but we can't... the conservative holds to the
past as being the only possible guide we can use in our
understanding of what it means to be human....
and this conservative belief, holds sway in the media, the ARTS,
the movies, literature..
I disagree, as usual... I think we can find meaning and purpose
in our future... what should we be attempting to reach, as a goal,
can give us meaning and purpose that we otherwise might not
be able to grasp....to be kind and intellectual people, is a
goal to be desired and a goal that we can use to reach for,
a goal/purpose that we can use to strive for... to act upon,
to become.... we can use future goals/purposes to launch
in us, our path into the future.. what kind of
people should we be, is a call to action and a call
to become those people....what beliefs should we hold to
become the people we think we should be?
that is the question.......
we are here today, and we want to be there tomorrow, what is the plan
to make that journey? How do we go from here to there?
whereas our current ism, ideology, capitalism has no such
goal or purpose... it only goal is to make money, and seeking
money only leads to seeking more money, it has no other goal/purpose...
and that is the failure, part of anyway, of capitalism....
it has no other goal or purpose to engage with or in....
just make money..... and that is the only goal/purpose of
capitalism.... it certainly make no attempt at ethics or
morality... ethics and morality are antithetical to capitalism...
because to make money requires, demands us to betray and
even destroy ethics/morality... having ethics/morality
prevents one from gaining money...
which is the only goal/purpose worth seeking, at least in
Modern day America... to become, to be anything
anything other than wealthy or famous is hostile/forbidden
in capitalism....
what is the point of being human, what goal should we and ought
we to pursue? that is the question....
Kropotkin
