Sometimes it helps to be honest.

(writing coming back soon)

Sometimes philosophy offers answers, not just questions.

Impossible obsolesence.

Sometimes it’s just time for a nap.

Sometimes, to save the world, the answers how are right over our noses.

Sometimes one must simply listen to the other voice.

Sometimes music speaks louder than words.

Morning after morning, after morning the coffee is brewed and we sit on our couches and drink it often in silence.  Getting dressed for work and a bite to eat, and perhaps out the door or over to the home office to start work.

Work with some breaks, perhaps a bit more coffee and the work day comes to an end.  Back home, sometimes with anticipation.  Dinner, maybe a walk, and of course the ubiquitous T.V.  And then bed.  Hmmm.

Lying hurts.  It hurts us as individuals and it hurts us as communities; it hurts us as a country and even as a species.  There are many lies that are accepted and in doing so we are accepting pain and anti-progress.  We become numb to it, but not immune to it.

Lying is killing us.  It is killing us as just as cancer kills its host; just as a gun kills its victim.  Lying kills by a million cuts and with atom bomb generality.  Death is natural; murder is not.  Lies only grow in fertile ground; death grows in desert plains.

Lying is easy.  Lying is easy for individuals and communities; it is easy for governments.  Lying pays off and it works.  Lying provides comfort and security or the feeling of superiority and the power of revenge.  All of it is false just as an untrue statement; just as an untrue belief.

We can say:

“Don’t lie to anyone for any reason.”  But, we will.

Perhaps we should revise the statement to align with Kant’s proposition:

“Don’t lie, but if you do know that it is never justified.”

There’s an apparent contradiction in our universe between quantum and classical physics.  When reading about physics on a micro-level, and noticing the world around, the contradiction does not seem important.  However, it poses problems to what we would like to believe and what we must accept.

There’s also an analogy to this in our daily lives; one which many have, perhaps, experienced first hand.  Leaders (politicians, CEO’s, administrators etc…) tend to tell those that work for them that they, the leaders, have a 30,000 foot perspective and that they, the workers, do not see the “whole picture”.

This seems paramount to saying: “I don’t care what quantum physics tells us, I don’t believe its true because I don’t live in that world.”  The problem is that we all live in one world, we are just not acutely aware of it.  This lack of awareness often leads to the acceptance of contradictions as truth.

Contradiction is deadly in math and logic, but there is also potent paradoxical poisons in other arenas: the dismissal of truth for the sake of belief; the narrowing of perspectives for the sake of power; apathy for the sake of comfort, and personal certainty for the sake of ignorance.  All of these are poisonous to real progress, and more times than not it doesn’t matter at what altitude we fly at.