![]() ![]() While these resources remain very much with us, we have more recently favored the words (and the technological byproducts) of Science. In earlier times, we have supplicated ourselves to deities, the word of God, powerful rulers, and to the charismatic. ![]() Where, then, do we tum for answers and for guid-ance? Historically speaking, it seems to me that in such times we have almost invariably turned outward-to sources beyond ourselves. Yet, at times such sweet regularity is ruptured: there is the agony of the inexplicable the macabre, the chaotic, the dissolute, the nihilistic, the not-so-nice, and the downright horrifying. If we simply bury our actions within the folds of common convention, we can often "stay out of trouble." Life simply goes on with satisfactory if sometimes numbing regularity. Perhaps this is why we seldom raise fundamental questions. Our momentary confidence gives way to tentative speculation, then to defensive posturing, replaced by a murmur, and finally to quietude. ![]() For if we give serious consideration to who we are, the nature of the world in which we act, why we act as we do, why we should responsibly chose this action over all competitors, why this way of life is valuable, or indeed why it is important to live at all, we soon find ourselves spinning. ![]() If we should momentarily bring our actions to a halt and inquire into their ratio-nality, we would soon be rendered helpless. ![]()
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