1,2,3 Ideas

Most of us discard the question of “being” and existence as unnecessary, yet many of modern humans' problems can be traced back to it.

What does it mean to "be" for you?

Is it to use your time in consumption?

Or to work a job that has no meaning for you?

Is it to be successful? What does success mean to you?

Is it to love? And what is love?

In everyday life, we often give platonic answers without taking the time to understand the meaning of what we say, look for, or try to achieve.

But in a world where everything has to make sense now, we only do what has utility (for something we call success, which we haven’t even defined for ourselves), and justify it within the frame of mind that we already have—one that remains unexamined.

This, I would argue, is the state of the world right now.

We like to think we think, but in reality, we just digest what has been thought up for us.

To inquire is to see with your own eyes.

Ideas for the week:

"What you are is the clearing for life to show up."

"We try to use mechanistic solutions to solve non-mechanistic problems."

"We know that we are looking in the wrong direction, yet somehow believe that if we just look harder, better, or differently, we could somehow get it."

Ideas from Others:

“The past is a mental, intellectual construct meant to give context to your present perceptions. There has never been a moment in your entire life in which the past has been anything else; I challenge you to find one.”

— Bernardo Kastrup, More Than Allegory

Question to Ponder:

What is the world?