Action vs. Omission: Preface.

You will learn readers, as I have and am in school, that when it comes to subject matter beyond the explainable realms of truth and science, the search for truth is one that seems to have hitherto eluded us as a species of free thinkers. We are human, we are imperfect, and as such, our minds are feeble; for the free thinker who dedicates his life to the copious and endless pursuit and intangible love of knowledge, the human mind is simply insufficient. The human mind is lacking. Such a mind often pulls through as nothing short of erroneous, and judgmental in times where judgment is impermissible.

What times?

That time of distress or agony, or even sometimes distressful agony when we yearn for the truth, when we want to be led the way, shown the right path to take on our long and arduous journey that carves the greater part of our sentient existence. Yes my readers, these are the times when our thoughts and reasoning become soiled by impurity and bias, when we allow heart to lead out leads in the tango that is indecision, step by step.

Now, I'm not saying that everyone has the same threshold for this heart before head mentality, far from it. But it seems quite apparent that such a threshold exists, that eventually, there will be a point when we cannot be logically sure of what is required of our actions and behaviour. Historically, the only person who seems to be an exception is the great philosopher Socrates, who carried until his willful consumption of hemlock, a will and idea that ruled over him like an iron fist. Jesus almost qualifies too I guess, but he arose from the dead, and that's cheating. Digressions aside however, my point is that there exists such a threshold that brings out the human disposition to become irrational, illogical, and sentimental in our judgment. The threshold which overrides the would be dominant mind, the would be dominant will. Yet, such a threshold is merely arbitrary and temperamentally varied in each person.

But I fear that our ability to act fully rational has dulled down over time. Oh how despairing it is to see children being taught from an early age, ingrained at an early age to be judgmental, to exist in accordance to what we are taught is right, both morally and epistemologically. Oh how despairing it is to see humans getting closer to creating carbon clones of each other, not just in the realms of biology, but also in the realm of, for lack of a more valid word, sociology. Society is quelling our sensibility and our ability to reason; and soon, it shall quell it completely. Society is the poison that shrivels our brain, but philosophy is cure to set it free.

Yet, the damage has been done, and whether it is the pressures of society or the inferiority of the human mind (or the human inferiority to use the mind to its full potential), truth and logic is exceedingly difficult to come by, outside the realms of mathematics and science, and I of course, am rather reluctant to use science as an example of truth, but the time to discuss that is not now.

Where does that leave me then? Does that leave me in an effort to try and exercise my mind into shape, completely unconscious of when my mind is in its perfect state, if even such a state exists? I surely cannot say, "this is a truth, and I have discovered it!" without falling into some form of epistemological scrutiny can I? I mean, Descartes Cogito Ergo Sum seemed pretty airtight, yet there are an abundance of criticisms against "I think, therefore I exist".

I am left with but one option, to make the most of what I have, to accept that for some things, there can be only an approximate truth, I may aim for truth, but due to the need to falsify my thoughts, I will never know if I reach my truth, as the truth will always be under the scrutiny of myself and others. On that note, allow me to rephrase a previous statement.

Both society and philosophy are the shackles that ensnare my mind, it is the cohesion and acceptance of them both, or of philosophy at the very least, which shall set my mind free.

And I must accept this.



I apologize for the lateness in posts, but I feel as if my writing is up to a satisfactory standard now, even if half this shit didn't flow, but fuck it, it makes sense to me.

Summer holidays just kicked in, this song is totes relevant now.