Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
I am a physicist. I don’t see the world as good or bad, I see it as a place where the search for truth is ongoing.
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
It’s really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.
Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
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