When you take a detour.

This is the second in a series of posts reflec­ting on the gene­ral decline of civi­li­ty. These posts should be read in order of publi­ca­tion. Star­ting with num­ber six, for example, would make no sense to the rea­der. Hap­py reading!

I’ll start by pro­vi­ding a small cla­ri­fi­ca­tion on the notion of fata­li­ty before I get into civi­li­ty. Obvious­ly, I’m not a deter­mi­nist based on arbi­tra­ry choices. Exis­tence of a god/gods or not? It doesn’t mat­ter and it’s big­ger than us any­way, like all of the phy­si­cal inter­ac­tions in the uni­verse. Would a god have crea­ted these inter­ac­tions? Pos­si­bly, but again, this is beyond my com­pre­hen­sion and I only focus on the things I can unders­tand, hence my fatalism.

At some point, you have to let go of the “too big”, the “too com­plex”. I expe­rience it eve­ry day at work, too much com­plexi­ty, even if 1 in 100 people unders­tand it, what’s the point in asking others for a leap of faith? If you ima­gine being at the bot­tom of a hill and a huge rock starts rol­ling down the hill. There are indeed cal­cu­la­tions and laws that govern the course of events and nothing is left to chance, eve­ry­thing is cal­cu­lable. As long as we have all the infor­ma­tion and data, eve­ry­thing is deter­mi­nable. On the other hand, car­rying out the cal­cu­la­tions before the rock hits us is impos­sible and we won’t be able to be cer­tain of the trajectory.

To be continued…

-Dan­ny

I’m Dan­ny (aka Coa­ch­Dan­ny). I have a pas­sion: humans. Come with me and take this minute eve­ry day to explore what’s going on today and why is it tren­ding. Click here to get your dai­ly thought right on time for break­fast.

Sources: https://solomotivation.com

Trans­la­tion by Abbie Sims: https://www.linkedin.com/in/acsims/

Last Upda­ted on May 12, 2021 by Coach Dan­ny