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I can imagine so much better a world.
And I'm not even talking about the most glaringly in-need-of aspect, namely a preponderance of humans magically becoming better than self-centric morons. I'm talking merely about simple things not becoming complicated things in ways increasingly unrelated - as the complication unfolds - to the initial impetus.
Example: You remove the coffee pot from its resting/heating place, bring it to where a coffee cup is, start pouring, and somehow some of pouring goes to the floor instead of the cup. Okay. And you could just leave it, but you know how things left to their own devices somehow tend more toward devolution than evolution. So you put the pot back, go to grab some paper towel off a roll hanging over the sink, and instead of the towel tearing on a perforation, a triangular sub-piece tears off that's insufficient for the job. So now you're dicking with getting paper towel to tear in a way that leaves the roll in a decent state for the next user. But after wetting the paper towel pieces a bit, you discover using them to clean up the mess is suboptimal for being two pieces instead of one, i.e. of *course* part of a finger slips through can gets dirty. And of course this whole detour to get coffee was in the middle of doing something finger intensive with a device you don't want fingers transfering dirt to. So now you need to wash and dry your hands. And of course the coffee you pours is cooling during all that dicking around. And of course when you lift one of the two cups, part of the mis-aim means some of the coffee that didn't make it into the cup want down its side and pooled underneath the cup. So now you need to clean that pooling *and* the side/bottom of the cup so that it can be set on something without transferring coffee onto said something....
Multiply the likes by, um... how many fucking times a day?
Good thing none of that actually matters, because:
The essential understanding seems to be that
everything we can know appears to exist in
'mind' and can have no other kind of existence
whatever. If that has been apperceived as
inevitable and factual, then we have to
apperceive that this 'mind' does not exist
independently as such either. Why is that? The
answer is almost absurdly simple: it is because
'mind' is just a symbol for what we ourselves
are, and therefore we cannot see it as an object
independent of what is looking!
- Wei Wu Wei