Dragaera

Damiano's Lute

Tue Nov 26 15:18:45 PST 2002

David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
> Mia McDavid <mia_mcdavid at attbi.com> writes:
>
>> DDB said:
>>
>>  >It's going strong *here*, and in a lot of third-world places, but
>> it's  >remarkably dead throughout the rest of the developed world.
>> We're  >kind of an outlier.
>>
>> Yeah, but the rest of the developed world (Europe, yes?) only
>> represents a few percent of humankind.  You apparently believe that
>> they indicate the direction that the rest of us are going in; given
>> enough time and resources.
>
> Yes.  Developing out of savagery into civilization and then into
> modernity seems to consistently involve shucking that nonsense.
>
>> Maybe.
>
> We are, after all, talking about the future.
>
>> You've made me curious, though.  What is *their* answer to "why,
>> why, why?"
>
> The obsessive need to know "answers" to meaningless "questions" is
> (and should be recognized as) a personality disorder.  We'll
> eventually learn to treat it, and root out the memes that lead to it.
> My need to believe in goals, order, and a direction to evolution (for
> example) impose no obligation on the universe to actually work that
> way.


This brings up a though I had not but a week ago, we are constantly focused
on finding an answer to some question, when I think it's clear we ought to
be asking better questions. Question the question if it answers; answer it.