Have you ever noticed how your behavior has to change in order to take part in things? If you want to play baseball, you have to start thinking like a baseball player, you have to start acting like a baseball player, you have to practice like a baseball player and you have to equip yourself like a baseball player. If you wanted to become a scientist, you’d have to study science, think in terms of the scientific method, and procure a laboratory. If you wanted to become a computer programmer, you’d have to learn a programming language, learn programming theory, and you’ve have to have access to a computer. If you wanted to be a boxer, you’d have to get boxing gloves, you’d have to practice your punching lines, bobbing and weaving, so on and so forth. In other words, whatever goal you take, you will have to become much like everyone else in that group, not to be misconstrued with being like everyone else in that group. Friedrich Nietzsche had this to say, “He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” Which generally supports my first paragraph, but he takes us down a dark road with his talk of “monsters” and the “abyss.” Why, Herr Nietzsche, would you say it the way you said it? Isn’t it much more pleasant to say that someone who wants to compete in baseball must become a baseball player? Can’t you smell the…(Yeah, I know he’s dead, just stay with me here)…green fields, the golden light blanketing the grass, the crisp sound of the bat meeting the ball? Or were you, perhaps, warning us of our own inner nature? If I must become a baseball player to compete against other players, a boxer to fight other boxers, a computer programmer to program, what must I do to combat terrorism? Welcome to Amerika
Posted on: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:14:44 +0000
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