“There is no one right answer. Reality is ambiguous. Aristotle said it is either A or not-A. It cannot be both. The sky is either blue or not blue. This is black and white thinking as the sky is a billion different shades of blue. A beam of light is either a wave or not a wave (A or not-A). Physicists discovered that light can be either a wave or particle depending on the viewpoint of the observer. The only certainty in life is uncertainty. When trying to get ideas, do not censor or evaluate them as they occur. Nothing kills creativity faster than self-censorship of ideas while generating them. Think of all your ideas as possibilities and generate as many as you can before you decide which ones to select. The world is not black or white. It is grey.”
This except is from Ten-Minute Art School Course (Tumblr link) which has close to a thousand reblogs/likes whatever. It has some nice open-mindedness concept for people who’ve never had an original thought in their entire life, but at least half of this article is almost entirely hogwash. Garbage. Complete nonsense. It basically says how everyone is right because there is no wrong answer to anything because everything is subjective.This type of thinking is the destruction of civilization. When we eliminate right and wrong, I’m not talking about eliminating ethics here (which is quite important on it’s own), but ELIMINATING LOGIC. There IS such thing as correct and incorrect, and not everyone’s opinion is valid.
How the article reveals it’s own self-contradiction SO badly is by this excerpt I removed. It quotes Aristotle, and one of his biggest key principles: “A is A”. The summation of this principle is that logic is the only real truth. Logic is the discerning of reality by objective means: that up is up, down is down, we are humans, we are mortal, death is irreversible and if you try to earn something without working for it, the world will balance itself out and you’ll fall right off the edge, which is my own paraphrasing (albiet not a very a good one).
So here it is, quoting Aristotle, and thenusing his quoteto display the exact opposite of what it’s meaning is, by going ahead and saying “A is A, or A is not A. There is no both. But everything is ambigious.”What the flying fuck.
Please Tumblr, smarten up, and don’t buy this bullshit which is a disgrace to human intelligence.
I used to have a great contempt for those who take pride in being poor and pathetic. Those who praise the victims, and damn the strong. I used to also feel this way, but I feel like it could never be more wrong. They say everyone deserves a fair share, when the reality is we all have to earn our fair share. I think it all goes without saying that some of us are dealt shitty hands and others get really great cards, but the truth I believe is that it goes how we play them.
But then I got sucked into the idea that playing cards right, and being successful despite the circumstances was the only right answer. But I find lately that this is only a very skewed version of the truth. Because success often leads to unearned and poorly-founded beliefs, that wealth is success and success is wealth. Wealth is often attributed to Elitism, the belief that anything of higher status is better than anything else. But “status” is a false sense of value that’s attributed to where something is and nothow it got there.
The cause of something is the important thing to remember, not the effect. Wealth is not the thing of concern, it’sability, whichcanbe the cause of wealth, but is not always. It’s truly ability that needs to garnish ones respect.
But then we must remember the other side as well: ability without execution and utility is wasted effort, and that person turns into a victim, a unique and capable individual who was not *given* the opportunity to prove it, but this is not a thing to praise. No one gives you a chance, you have to take chances.
Play the cards your dealt in the best way you know how, but only those who make risky moves will ever see themselves beat the odds.
"Tu quoque : Literally, you too. This is an attempt to justify wrong action because someone else also does it. “My evidence may be invalid, but so is yours."
