Sunday, February 21, 2016

That make sense. Isn't?

There is so much philosophy written over the course of few centuries that you can pick any thought system to fit your personal inclinations. You may be sympathetic to the claims of the working class and draw from Marxism and lift the banner of populism, after all, they deserve it, even if they are not going to get fair results. If you believe everything is temporary fucked up but marching according to divine plan, but your cool guy status is precluding you for using a theological justification, then you can fish out in Hegel. His system of dialectics and the manifestation of the absolute through human actions will make sense of whatever crap we humans have done, including climate change, animal cruelty and all you can imagine. Sartre and Heidegger will said that your life fits the purpose of realizing your potentialities and the potentialities of being, in a universal sense, according to the later.

Every meta narrative could be of use to more or less making sense of your shitty, miserable life. We are tools, instruments, in the hand of some major purpose or final cause that we don't know anything about. That make sense, isn't?

Children are playing around in the park. Teenagers are discovering their sexuality. Responsibility is knocking at the door.

You feel old and depressed. You try to make sense of things. Why do my previous generation did everything in their power to fuck up things for my generation? Should I, resented human being that I'm, keep things the same way they were passed to me? Or should I try to hand the tools for a better future?

That is the question that every power on earth, every individual in a position of wealth and resources should be asking themselves these days. What can I do for the new generations? Beyond politics and ideologies or philosophies how can I, personally help to achieve the dreams of a better world? If there is any hope left, then hope is in my hands. It's up to me to be the agent of change. Isn't?