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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
you remind me of that woody allen character who said he hated reality, but it was the only place where he could get a good steak. now i don't know what your steak is, but i'm sure you want something out of life, don't you?
i think you are suffering from delusions brought on by idealism. you want a perfect world. there is no such thing. those who learn to deal with the world as it is are neither conformists nor sellouts-- they are just people who have learned that reality and ideals are universes apart, and that's the truth about the world.
in a way, the idealist, taking refuge in the cocoon of his dreams, is the true pussy, unable to face reality for what it is. now, i'm not saying let's give up on ideals-- ideals are great. but no matter how hard you try to implement them they are going to have flaws and failures, because that is the nature of the universe-- it does not correspond to our dreams of crystallized perfection.
you see, im a materialist, i believe that matter comes first and ideas are born of matter, and energy, inside our brains; so i don't think that ideals have any real existence outside our brains. metaphysics is nothing but a collection of our dreams. ideals are abstractions-- guides at most, but they never have had an exact correlate in the world. find me a perfect circle in the non-mental world and i will give up on my argument.
when you throw your hands up in the air in disillusion and do nothing about reality simply because it does not conform to your ideals, you are missing the chance to do something about that reality. reality can be improved if we work at it, and we should all work at improving it, but shirking that work with the excuse that there will always be imperfections is the actual reason why we are the way we are. it's easy to sit aside and throw rocks at what other people do, it's much harder to actually try to do something and fail and try again and maybe get a couple of things right before you die.
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you just clicked on "quote & reply" and read it over your head didn't you?
i NEVER said i was for communism and against money, ambition and possessions.
i also stated several times that it's WISHFUL THINKING what i'm posting.
you asked me what was i doing about it (about democracy and new ways of government) i answered you bluntly, that's what i do, rather than resort to a "close enough mentality"
i'm by NO means an activist and i do enjoy life a lot, actually, i can't complain much, but things are not right in this world, maybe they'll never be but, if we just stand there and say "ohh we're screwed" then we would have been extinted a long time ago.
i'm also not an existentialist who thinks life is death interrupted or whatever.
but one thing i can say that i can't stand is mediocrity, thinking things are "close enough" or "almost good", i hate it, i live around it every day of my life and can't fathom people actually living like that, if i'm not doing the best that i can, then why bother? i would rather kill myself. and that goes for my life and the life of those i care about, if they don't have the best life they can, then what do you have to live for? there's always an option, just as there's always something in this universe to be discovered and as there's always something to be said.
i live my life and actually do what i want of it and i'm not afraid to go for it.
if being a conformist is your boat, go on and have a good one, i actually would like to see things better and for that you have to have a good grasp at reality, rather than sit back and get bored by the passing second.