If only Ulfo could be hornier when he was holier!
Plus we get a little bit of a sermon, as SOME people like to call anything that’s worth hearing. The artist/writer hits upon a subject here that I’ve long been annoyed by – relative truth.
To explain (in a very roubabout way): I’ve always been an underachiever at school and the world of Academia – never to point of getting bad grades, per se, but I never felt it necessary to please teachers or senior students. During my school days, I always felt there was something fundamentally wrong about what was going on – the standardized tests, essay formats, the utter arbitrariness of others grading the “content” of my work. In an (I think) uncommon sort of iconoclastic spirit, I adored rules but had no respect for authority. I could understand the logic behind a system, behind a subject, a study, but never in the use of it. Teachers always struck me as liars. Administration even more so. It took me years after graduation to figure out what I was so biased against – it’s the fact that nothing is proven absolute truth.
“Truth” is theory, and theory is tailor-made to be flexible. Theory is MEANT to evolve and be challenged, and challenged successfully. It’s meant to lead to new theories, and the whole of our knowledge SHOULD be about teaching kids how to progress what we think we know, and to forever understand that “think we know” is the entire state of knowledge. It can never be more absolute than that, not truly. Though we’ll always FEEL very fervent in our personal perceptions.
We simply do not teach kids at a young enough age the whole truth about “truth”. We save it until black and white is too ingrained a concept to dismiss as it should be dismissed. Science suffers decades of standstill as loyalist factions hold true to outdated tenants and “mavericks” (those who practice real science that obeys the, gee, scientific method) cannot get funding. Religion holds sway for centuries, ever changing its ideals, but never reneging power or independent thought back to its followers. Personal responsibility and individuality defined through anything besides subculture – two things that are necessary for mankind ot achieve its full potential – remain things misunderstood, usually vilified because they’re misunderstood: personal responsibility is often misrepresented as anti-social a-type incapacity; individuality is usually taken to the extreme of Doctor Doom proportions – a sociopath whose ends-justify-the-means mindset will ultimately, always, devolve into meglomaniacal schemes of fuck-all-of-you-I-am-god conceit.
So, anyway, yeah. Don’t let anyone tell you what is or what isn’t, but LISTEN to them nevertheless. There’s a whole world of knowledge to indeed know about, but ultimately, it’s all there for you to run with, play with, and improve upon. THINK, people. For yourselves. But don’t dismiss others and what they think either. We’re all here to improve upon everything. No pressure, eh?
