...paragraph from an article by Tim Lott in today's Times (page 4; T2):
"..at the heart of it lies a simple, profound and existential truth, and it is this. There is no way that the world "is". What I mean by that is that the existence we are born into is almost infinitely complex, and capable of being made reasonable sense of in a limitless number of ways. There is no perfect clear view of the world - only the pictures we make in our own minds"
I don't know why, because the more I read it the more obvious it seems, but this succinct paragraph seems to encapsulate a lot that is fundamental. If more of us understood that everyone else's way of seeing the world has as much validity as our own perhaps we would live in a world that was a little more forgiving and tolerant.
I feel that we are being driven towards, or drawn into, a vortex where only a single, mainstream, view is acceptable. I find it refreshing to read - within that mainstream - something that seems to say there is still room for a wider view. It gives me a hope.
And that's a good thing.
Stands by to be utterly trashed by deeper thinkers and the more cleverer
4 comments:
hear hear
(am not a greater thinker or deeply clever so will not be attempting to trash this as it makes imminent sense to me)
(v surpised actually by The Times, being a Guardian gal myself; always thought it was the big brother paper to The Sun and just as
just as
trashy?)
thanks beep, for the educational journey
word ver: how 2 x me
well 2 was a 't', but that's what I read into it; sorry to lower the quality of the comment by including such trivia
(oh, and it was written in lovely chunky red sans serif letters)
Sometimes it descends into Sun speak. Especially recently in the headline area. I don;t read a newspaper for its news coverage whihc I get from radio and TV, I read it for the other bits, and the T2 bit suits me better than any other. It's so diverse and rarely less than good.
I will be in a position to answer your rhetorical question, I hope, one day. Or not.
ver: zip meister. Might be true. And a hint.
the interesting bit I thought was about guilt, goodness and depression.
I was absolutely horrified at the Standard for publishing those pictures of that poor woman jumping. The public does not need to know.
I know, GSE, but I felt that the whole was just too big to pass comment on here. And this para just leapt out at me, and I felt moved to bring it out.
And those pictures ...
I still have the images of those jumping on Sept 11 burned in my retina, even though I looked away.
Now this. But somehow... she had a choice. They didn't. I wholly disagree with The Times who seemed to say that because of that the Sept 11 jumpers were less horrific to behold.
IMHO, none of these pictures should have been published.
They do not add to our knowledge or experience in any helpful way.
In fact they diminish our lives.
And they were unavoidable: why so massive?
An indignity.
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