Dawn is cracking loud today, or maybe it’s the Pistols on the iPod shredding the infamous songwriting duo Kierkegaard & Nietzsche’s classic “Nihilism, So DaDaDandy” I’m confusing with the break of yet another week.
Yes, it’s THAT sort of morning after THAT sort of night following THAT sort of day yesterday having me think THESE sorts of thoughts.
Good morning, World … and how about that idea that we’re all nothing but a tube?
Let’s start this Monday off with the thought that we are plain and simply biological creatures born to live, then die, whose entire raison d’etre is to take in nutrients, excrete … well … excrement and reproduce, and grandiose concepts like some spiritual component, a soul, are nothing but a load of wishful hooey.
Most of science certainly points us in that direction, after all, and easily implicates bio reasons for just about anything going on in us. Everything from our fears to our joys to our passions to our annoyances can be traced to our DNA.
We love our kids because our brains grew big enough to require long childhoods for development, so we grew attached to the little buggers so we wouldn’t boot them out of the cave before they could walk … or eat them.
We dream because of electro-chemical processes. We ponder the stars and the moon because doing so paid off in longer life spans.
We create art and music out of a mandate to communicate that facilitates eating, passing along our genetic material and not being killed for our share of the mammoth.
We fall in love out of primal urges … and fall out of love for those same primal urges. (See reproduction.)
At some point our brains expanded enough to leave room for more than grubbing for grub and screwing, so started wondering about stuff. What we couldn’t explain got stories and stories became habit forming and led to religion and writing and science.
There are no few folks who subscribe wholeheartedly to this concept and appear to be comfy in the knowledge that born-live-die is all there is to it. Some tout freeing aspects in the idea that you only live once, so make the bloody most of it.
I get that. I do. But what I don’t get is the point.
Because it is dictated we must eat, we must survive, we must breed, it’s not like like it’s a party. For many it is really fucking hard and no fun at all, and if the only reason to put up with all the crap is to bring another generation in to put up with all the crap, well, seems saving them the effort wouldn’t be a bad thing.
But, see? That’s where we’re bound, trapped like a bug in amber. It’s in our DNA.
Even our fear of death is rooted in our code because without it … and with nothing else going on … we’d be topping ourselves right and left as soon as we figured out how fucking pointless it is to struggle and suffer for however many decades we’re allowed to struggle and suffer through.
Whoopie.
If we’re looking for meaning, it must come in flashes, in moments the chemicals in our brains pump out warm fuzzies and set us awash in sweet juices. These keep us going, they translate as hope … and are addictive as hell, so we plod through days and weeks and months and years and decades searching for fix after fix.
Anyone want to talk me down from this precipice?
Gawd, I hate Mondays …
If we had Yogi training, maybe we could fly!
Sandra, you are not alone. For years, I’ve asked the questions you speak of in your post. I’ve had my share of cliff sitting.
I’ve decided that it’s time to make my own point. And…. I can make it whatever I choose. You can do it too. You can make your own point.
Am I making any sense? I think it’s getting late and I should go to bed. Please let me know how Monday goes so I know if I should get out of bed or not.
I know I’m not terribly profound this morning, Marianne, but a mood is a mood is a mood.
Some days I do feel I can accomplish wonders, although those are usually not Mondays.
I’ll try to keep you posted on this one. š
Musings from a tube
It is easy (especially on Mondays) to feel this way , but love and music and art , poetry dance and song are things that will help you fly , forget the yogi (unless you want some exercise). Let your soul sore it is the difference between tube and you tube if you will . What great endeavour to ask these questions , what great pity to fall at the first hurdle. You need a little Khalil Gibran Sandra HaHaHa enjoy talk soon
Dave
PS sorry its late (time differance you know)
Setting up for further and more positive thoughts tomorrow, Dave.
And, yes, we do need to talk soon!
S
Nice, I know the feeling…
hahahaha! I LOVE it! Isn’t life great! If there is anything that we can know for certain – i think its that the purely biological view of life is wrong! has there ever been a time in history when we thought we had it all figured out, when we actually did? hahahahha! never!!!!
life itself is infinite. like the universe. and as Einstein added: mans stupidity! :-))
One of my favorite quotes: Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.