Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Contributing to the deficit
What is the point in living? In breathing? In converting precious O2 to propel one's own tiny existence?
I propose that it is to contribute. Not that everyone should be expected to make a gigantic contribution (after all, if everyone were simultaneously capable of proposing that matter moving at a certain speed actually replicated the wave-motion of light, why would anyone bother to hold the e=mc3 equation in such high regard?), but everyone should be expected to make some contribution, some positive impact on the overall universe either physically, intellectually or emotionally.
Which is not to imply that anyone is perfect, of course not. Everyone draws resources from the overall matrix (afterall, Edison devoted years and resources producing 200 light bulbs before he came upon the one that worked), but in theory their contributions should outweigh their deficit in the theoretical summation of all their deeds after their death.
Unfortunately, in some cases, a life contributes wholly to the deficit (this is abstract, not energy or mass).
Some creatures, it seems, only draw resources. Whether they be physical like using up oxygen, gasoline, eating, electricity, water, hell any form of energy you'd like; emotional, like only asking other people to pay attention to your piddling problems without engaging them and talking to them or helping them with their own with everyone you ever meet or in the intellectual sense, when people spend their worthwhile time trying to educate you to eventually better society only to see that effort wasted when the subject either does not use it out of insolence or is too far lacking in his or her intellectual capabilities to make any contribution.
From this sign of the negative sign, I'm saying "hello".
I propose that it is to contribute. Not that everyone should be expected to make a gigantic contribution (after all, if everyone were simultaneously capable of proposing that matter moving at a certain speed actually replicated the wave-motion of light, why would anyone bother to hold the e=mc3 equation in such high regard?), but everyone should be expected to make some contribution, some positive impact on the overall universe either physically, intellectually or emotionally.
Which is not to imply that anyone is perfect, of course not. Everyone draws resources from the overall matrix (afterall, Edison devoted years and resources producing 200 light bulbs before he came upon the one that worked), but in theory their contributions should outweigh their deficit in the theoretical summation of all their deeds after their death.
Unfortunately, in some cases, a life contributes wholly to the deficit (this is abstract, not energy or mass).
Some creatures, it seems, only draw resources. Whether they be physical like using up oxygen, gasoline, eating, electricity, water, hell any form of energy you'd like; emotional, like only asking other people to pay attention to your piddling problems without engaging them and talking to them or helping them with their own with everyone you ever meet or in the intellectual sense, when people spend their worthwhile time trying to educate you to eventually better society only to see that effort wasted when the subject either does not use it out of insolence or is too far lacking in his or her intellectual capabilities to make any contribution.
From this sign of the negative sign, I'm saying "hello".
# posted by Solon : 1:41 PM
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