Philosophical Questions
Philosophical Questions
Do we need government as it is now known and practiced? Is it a necessary evil or a fossil of a bygone era?
The institutionalization of life in the modern world…has it hit the Western World hardest; precisely that part of the world that invented this situation? Does all this systematic governing, a governing modality that relies on force / compulsion from others to make sure that individuals bend to its will – albeit in the name of something as impersonal as “law” in more advanced societies – corrupt us at a very deep level? In order to live life to the fullest at this point in history, do we have to substitute a governance from within for governance from without?
If the Aquarian Age has something – if not everything – to do with the fusion of faith/hope/love/oneness on the one hand and reason/ human intelligence, then should we devote as much time and energy to understanding human intelligence as we do to artificial intelligence? Obviously we are at a point in history at which technology will serve as the platform for the augmentation of human intelligence. Should we not be spending as much time and energy on figuring out who we are and where we came from as a way to understand human intelligence before we put all our eggs in the basket marker “AI?”Is the result of our cooperation with technology be the obsolescence of human being as we know it in favor of a new species made up of Cyborgs.
If the good life is, as Bertrand Russell said, “inspired by love and guided by reason” (sic), then is it not reasonable to direct our minds toward the study of this thing called love?
The good life is like a well built stool with three legs representing work, home and love. In light of America’s current problems with the first two categories, should it not then work on the third in order to re-balance itself?
Broken homes and their effect on American children – as well as on their overworked single parents – may be a good focus for any real attempt at solving that country’s many socioeconomic problems today.
“You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him find it within himself.”
– Galileo Gallilei
Will cannabis be important in the Space Age? Inasmuch as science has proven the medicinal effects of its main molecular components – thc and cbd – does the ever – increasing acceptance of its use in certain parts of the world herald our entry into a whole new way of feeding ourselves – both physically and metaphysically – through scientific nutrition?
According to the fabled Red String of Fate, we are indeed, for this Japanese legend reminds us that “although we might not realize it, our lives move in a pre-ordained direction, guided by invisible strings that are woven into the fabric of the Universe itself. And all the while, the red thread connecting us to our distant soul-mates is getting shorter. As the Japanese would say: our world has its share of obstacles, but nothing in it happens by accident.”
– from genial.guru at https://brightside.me.