Originally posted by srsen
are we all becoming a little too sceptical??
No, never. The three things that I always bear in mind: (1) Everyone is a hustler; (2) Everything is a con; (3) You are the mark. I think it is best
to always be a step ahead and doubt ironically gets me there. It forces you to consider other possibilities. This is a good thing, but it is
grueling and often disappointing -- I suppose because the human imagination (or at least that's how I think of it, the rest of you probably call this
the "heart") really craves magic and mystery, while the mind demands logic and certainty, and the conflict is painful.
Originally posted by srsen
what if, just for once - something was actually real... would people still find ways to label it a fake?
When I read that first sentence, I could not help but laugh. Not in a mean-spirited way, but in a genuinely amused way. Almost all of the drone
conversations could easily segue into a serious philosophical conversation about the nature of the real (it's begging to be about that, IMO -- the
drones are a perfect example of our expansion into hyperreality blurring our ability to distinguish the real anymore). Somewhere, the ghost Jorge
Luis Borges is laughing.
That being said, I'll invoke a science fiction author instead of a philosopher
. Philip K. Dick once remarked, "Reality is that which, when you
stop believing in it, doesn't go away." I tend to side with him. For most people, nothing is convincingly real until they have personally seen or
interacted with it, and even then, their experiences are questionable and open to interpretation. Until something is as real as sand or grass, people
are going to question it. So it goes and so it has, always and forever. Again, I feel that this is right.
And yes, people will find ways to label the real as unreal. They should. They should deny, deny, deny, until the real thing is forced to prove
itself through its persistence, or perhaps out of spite
.
Originally posted by srsen
I'm no expert but i just dont see why anyone would waste so much time in putting this together if only a fake.
For one, the drive to create that is inherent in humanity. It's what we do here on Earth: we make things, and we make things happen. Sometimes we
make useful things, sometimes we don't.
Boredom and amusement also spring to mind.
/tn.
