I was just thinking about how the last time i learned any philosophy was 15+ years ago, so i wonder, what’s something y’all know about philosophy? Let’s talk about it!
I was just thinking about how the last time i learned any philosophy was 15+ years ago, so i wonder, what’s something y’all know about philosophy? Let’s talk about it!
Absurdism. Life, the universe, existence, is absurd and irrational.
It’s comforting and liberating to accept.
Grasping the idea that things don’t always make sense, and that’s it’s okay when they don’t, is like setting down a heavy load you didn’t realize you were carrying.
Absurd, sure. Irrational? Good luck living according to that for any length of time.
It doesn’t matter if you try or not, you will anyway. It’s unavoidable. The canvas has a colour, no matter what paint you put on top
So what, you mean that in just a relative way, compared to some kind of platonic, maximally-ordered alternate possibility? If the world was actually irrational, as in defying logic, basic planning, like walking in the direction you want to go, would not work.
Instead, it’s extremely orderly if you look closely at any given thing, only becoming unpredictable with scale and influence by other, unknown-to-you parts. Even quantum mechanics has utterly predictable probabilities. And interpretations where the randomness is, itself, an illusion.