Rambling

This morning's PE was rather pathetic. "Rather" is used to conceal my disappointment and disbelief. Only abt 10 people turned up. Well, i can't complain, can i? Prelim is near, many are stressed up, and PE is the only lesson ponning which u would not lose much. In fact for many, it is the golden period of the week to mug. you know, to catch up in the race, and to stay ahead. I can't despise them nor blame them, can i? I am guilty of ponning sometimes (but never ponned to mug)

And indeed, it is not without reason that pple would wanna pon HC PE lessons. This morning's encounter with Mario was a testament to his legends that i have heard many times before. I was furious as he was unreasonably rigid. But after much thoughts, i feel that there is no need for me to be angry at such a person. He has no logic, no reasoning. I doubt heavily that he does ever engage in any higher order thinking. No logic at all.

Logic and reason is central to human civilisation and knowledge acquisition. It is sad that great minds like Kant and Russell have not influenced many in our society yet. There is much truth in Baddiley's saying that "there are much more idiots than intellectuals." The field of philosophy is indeed intriguing. Knowledge is too powerful an appeal to resist. Philosophy is one that can liberate souls, and enlighten lives. But sadly, despite the philosophical advances by philosophers, our society is still very much ignorant. The significance of philosophy is thus very much limited by the influence it has on the mass public. Philosophers are enlightened (or ralatively so), but society is still in the dark. Unlike science, science is so universal, that any being who has been trained (or moulded) in the education system for years would understand Newton's Laws. Or so i suppose. I believe that if Aristotle would be utterly saddened to learn the philosophical development of our society as a whole. On the other hand, Newton would be fascinated at all the new discoveries, and glad (or sad? furious?) that his Newton's Mechanics is no longer the central dogma of physical world.

That's why. I wanna learn philosophy, first to enlighten myself, then to influence the society.



Back to Mario. In fact i pity him. He is so shallow that he does not even realise his own shallowness. That is a perfect example of a shallow man. A very enlightened man would be so enlightened that he could no longer comprehend the shallowness of a shallow person. LOL. well, i am still somewhere in btw, so i understand.


Heidegger argued that we have to make choices, without any certainty as to their outcomes - the only thing we can be certain of is that we face a life of guilt and anxiety.

Yes. existence is lonely, existence is full of sufferings, existence is confusing.

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实在是佩服金庸大侠

“The best way to predict your future is to create it”

I really do hope so.

Philosophy

Immersing myself in the vast and dimentionless world of philosophy is definitely the most enjoyable thing to do. Its magnitude of enjoyment beats that of orgasm (multiplied by 100X) hands down, though both are of different forms of enjoyment, one is spiritual, one is humanly pleasure. Little wonder that so many great thinkers had dedicated their lives to the understanding of life.

When i leave the realm of philophical thoughts and step back to the reality, i am rather reluctant to face back all the humanly concerns that i am grappling with. One major headache i have now is whether to read subjects of personal interest or of practical and economic value. Second is where to pursue my tertiary education. Third is financial concerns.

1984

Doublethink.
Oxymoron.

the cooxistence of 2 antagonistic and totally opposite ideas.

it permeates every aspect of our lives. Recall that few in US having problems with a war-making apparatus names "the Department of Defence". Nominal free press has to present "balanced and unbiased" arguments. Everyday we are subject to official amnesia, outright lying from the ruling class. Sometimes we believe, sometimes we doubt. But most of the time, we believe and doubt at the same time, embodying the doublethink mentality. We know that this world is full of sufferings, yet we hope otherwise. We know that we are engaging in the highest degree of monotony in life, and a lot of us are unhappy with what we are engineered to do everyday. yet we do not dare to do otherwise. you must not be a rebel here. and that is not only from the political aspect. rebellous acts would only bring chagrins and unhappiness to family and friends. Yes. you must be a doctor, says mummy. and yes, admit it or not, you are a cell in this entire organism of nation. you need to perform your function, if not apoptosis (or self-phagocytosis?) would happen. a nation only needs the functional beings just as an organism only requires living and functional cells. Yes of cuz every cell has its uniqueness and identity, but its extent may not be great. After all, all the cells are coded by the same sequence of DNA in the organism. Though thinking of individuals might be different, how great would the difference be, considering that all the cells are engineered and nurtured in the same incubator, taking in the same nutrients.

but. you are happy, ain't you, my friend? you are supposed to be, after all






There is a photo, taken around 1946, showing George Orwell with his adopted son. The little boy, around two that time, was beaming, with unguarded delight. That boy, Richard Blair, was born 1944, the same year as the protagonist of 1984. It is not difficult to guess that Orwell, in 1984, was imagining a future for his son's generation, a world he was not so much wishing upon than as warning against. He wanted to make a change to his prophecy. It is the boy's smile, direct and radient, proceeding out of an unhesitating faith that the world, at the end of the day, is good, and that human decency can always be taken for granted - a faith so honourable that we can almost imagine Orwell, and perhaps even ourselves, for a moment anyway, swearing to do whatever must be done to keep it from ever being betrayed