Closet Philospher

I often consider myself a closet philosopher in the sense that most of the time you’d never know that I’m constantly examining life and thinking about it on the deepest levels that I know of.

For the past couple days I’ve been reminded of my “ultimate view” of this reality. And I like to express it in a way that doesn’t “conflict” with anyone else’s view on life, belief, or religion… well other than maybe someone who doesn’t believe there is life after this one.

I constantly look at life as some form of art, taking place from each of our own perspectives. And upon the end of this life to each his own work of art. Judgement aside, each person’s experience will be in a way, their work of art.

And even last night I snapped this picture of an unexpected sunset and titled it “I am not the artist, I am the frame”

 

So today I was listening to this video and I heard one of the many speakers, and something about their voice sounded better than the rest, I thought to myself, “I need find out who this is… I should google some of their exact verbiage and maybe I’ll be able to find their name.  And just as I had that thought, the next thing they say is “turn your life into a living breathing work of art because anything less would be a tragedy.”

And then I found him, Jason Silva, a name that was familiar but not like some of the others. And I especially like what he was saying about attention and fostering your attention as one of the most important things you can do for your own self-development (I’m paraphrasing)

Personal development is an all-encompassing form of mastery, not a selfish form of gratification. I’ve only seen my ability to help my family, and others lifestyle improve when I work on improving myself. Sometimes it’s hard to put into words, but this is the video I was watching that helps put it into the emotion.

So I was just about finished with this simple post. Yet after I discovered the person, whom words in the video I admired so much, I went to his website and was scrolling down only to find one of my least favorite words in all of language “transhuman”

It’s rather odd to me, the first time I’ve heard someone else, at least verbally, refer to someone’s life as a work of art – So I look more into them and instantly see they at least condone the idea of transhumanism. Which Jason may or may not, he says the video was sponsored by Subaru, so I don’t know whose words they actually are. But one thing that was said that urkes me beyond words. Is even humoring the idea of transhumanism as if it’s a good or ideal end point.

In summary, Jason’s words in the video ended with “will robots inherit the earth? Yes they will, but they will be our children..” In a world where the divorce rate is so high, marriage treated as a casual union than something sacred, vasectomies and the other so wildly and easily available… and now our children will be robots. Great, sounds like dream come true (sarcasm) .. not the ending I would have wrote.

There was a lot more here I wanted to say, and wrote, but deleted it because it’s way too early in this blog for me to go off on tangents like that. So I’m just going to leave it at-

To look at each of our lives is a work of art and then come to the conclusion that transhumanism is the answer – is nothing short of the evolution of a robot. But I don’t need any of that for eternity, after all, what are souls for?

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In case you’re on the fence about trans-humanism.. I just found this video and it should put you on one side or the other – because this is their direction. To me it just sounds like the most lonely existence one could ever imagine –  And it’s another from Jason Silva