I suppose there really are no answers. You can ask why it seems that no one to care... Sure any one individual cares about one thing or another at any given moment... but what the hell? What about tomorrow? Or a bit longer than that?
Yeah, people get into school, or a job, or a relationship?
And that's all well and good... but why do these things?
Well, specifically?
What's the end goal?
Food? Money? Fame? Some land or a house? Some illusion of security?
Maybe it's just to form some type of meaningful connection. If one honestly disbelieves in the reality and laws of matter, I suppose one can form a meaningful and lasting connection with some stuff, such as a car, or furniture, or a house...
... a piece of art, one could argue, is slightly different... but only slightly, because when does art stop? at the doors of a museum? a design store? the desk of an architect? the bench of a craftsman? the cutting board of a chef?...
what about a meaningful connection with a living thing? "Man's best friend?" a rodent? a fish, or hermit crab? a sea monkey?...
What about a plant? People cart around plants for years... some are even considered sacred...
But dogs and plants and everything in-between are shit for conversation... I suppose it is possible to teach a gorilla to sign... but that's hardly a practical companion.
So that would then leave us with other people... just fucking foolish, greedy, short-sighted other people...
...people aren't all that bad, most of them just seem to have no idea who they are... or how vast they they are… or why they are doing whatever it is that they are working towards… or even what they are working so hard for...
...the one's that seem to actually understand how many things they are at once are the interesting ones, the problem is that a good chunk of those people also seem to struggle with their self-competing natures, which can make them not so easy to get close to, for a long run...
deep down I like people conceptually, but they're really frustrating. it's not easy to try and help those that are so feverishly and blindly trying to destroy themselves… nor is it easy to get people to change directions, and to fight for something thats too big for most of them to see...
Yeah, people get into school, or a job, or a relationship?
And that's all well and good... but why do these things?
Well, specifically?
What's the end goal?
Food? Money? Fame? Some land or a house? Some illusion of security?
Maybe it's just to form some type of meaningful connection. If one honestly disbelieves in the reality and laws of matter, I suppose one can form a meaningful and lasting connection with some stuff, such as a car, or furniture, or a house...
... a piece of art, one could argue, is slightly different... but only slightly, because when does art stop? at the doors of a museum? a design store? the desk of an architect? the bench of a craftsman? the cutting board of a chef?...
what about a meaningful connection with a living thing? "Man's best friend?" a rodent? a fish, or hermit crab? a sea monkey?...
What about a plant? People cart around plants for years... some are even considered sacred...
But dogs and plants and everything in-between are shit for conversation... I suppose it is possible to teach a gorilla to sign... but that's hardly a practical companion.
So that would then leave us with other people... just fucking foolish, greedy, short-sighted other people...
...people aren't all that bad, most of them just seem to have no idea who they are... or how vast they they are… or why they are doing whatever it is that they are working towards… or even what they are working so hard for...
...the one's that seem to actually understand how many things they are at once are the interesting ones, the problem is that a good chunk of those people also seem to struggle with their self-competing natures, which can make them not so easy to get close to, for a long run...
deep down I like people conceptually, but they're really frustrating. it's not easy to try and help those that are so feverishly and blindly trying to destroy themselves… nor is it easy to get people to change directions, and to fight for something thats too big for most of them to see...
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