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I wish to have no interest in anybody who has no interest in me, especially if they are alive and so could do so. Let the sublunary stars find their gravitation elsewhere or spin untethered out into the void of anonymity.
It is important to know about them insofar as they can help or hurt me. If I could pass for racially "black" I might extol The Reverencd Martin Luther King, Jr. if this would get me a better job or a college scholarship. If I was Alexei Navalny's wife, of course I would be screaming for Dr. Putin to let my husband become President of The Rusian Federation. If Britney Griner was my daughter I'd want her to make a lot of money in basketbll to provide for my comfortable retirement. If I worked for Tesla I'd be very interested in Mr. Elon Musk's temper tantrums since they would affect my employment. If I was a Russian I'd be trying to avoid Dr. Putin's military conscription. As an American who is being harmed by Predident Ahab Biden's war against his Dr. Moby Dick Putin with his Zelensky harpoon, of course I am interested in what Mr. Biden is up to. And if I had been living in Ukraine in 2021 I hope the stench of Mr. Zelensky's selfish simpleminded propaganda would have motivated me to leave that wretched country long before 24 February 2022. If I met the Abrahamic Deity on the road I would respond to Him according to how respectfully He would engage with me. I am interested in all these people insofar as they do or can affect me. I can't affect them, so why bother?
I do not like being insignificant so why should I help further enhance anybody else's significance who is not enhancing mine? f you want to be significant in my eyes, make me be significant in your eyes and then my opinion of you will be significant to you.
If I am not important, my thoughts are not important. Therefore: since everybody are all just thoughts I have, they are not important. I have started reading a new book which looks interesting. But so what? I am reading it for a reason: I personally knew the translator. Otherwise yawn. In 2022 (or was it 2021, now?) there was one book I really worked hard to read, about the philosophy of Edmund Husserl (d. 1938, before I was born). Part of what susteined me was that the author had written an email to me back in 2004 about his book, in which he referred to Prof. John Wild whom I had known. I do not like being unimportant. As said, if I am unimportant then since everybody and everything is just thoughts in my mind, nothing and nobody is important. RIP (Rot In Place) I do not think it's too much to ask of the world to make me its peer since I am that, noetically, anyway?
Pwoplw get off on diying for their country. I think the problem ther is that since they cannot create anything to live for – no not the thing created but the cretiv process in process, they can feel they are not meaningless by preserving thing sfrom th past. I'm defending my country, Wow! Instead of: What interesting semiotic raw material my country provides me for making collages (I am incapable of freehand drawing). If my country did not exist II'd have a lot less stuff to dive for in the dumpster of history. How about General George S. Patton? I read that when he visited the places wher famous battles in history had taken place, he imagined having conversations wit hthe general who fougnt them. I can "dig" that, can't you, my reader? I have made use of Patton as a model for having imaginary conversations with absent persons, maybe him?
 Unfortunate for themself, the person who lacks one; unfortunate for others, the person that is one. Don't be an a**hole! |
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