The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
– Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)
[Heidegger is dense. I think he’s brilliant, but I’m still wading through his ideas. That’s why I love 8-Bit Philosophy – they make convoluted wisdom a helluva lot more palatable. Thanks for joining the third edition in the Quotable Quickie: Existentialism series for NaBloPoMo 2015.]
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The statement is certainly true, but I think it’s better to say that we are thinking about the wrong things. Like how Starbucks made a cup without snowflakes, rather than the fact that people are starving in other countries or how genocide is happening somewhere on this planet.
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True true. We are thinking furiously about so many things – with so much information bombarding us everyday, how could we not? But, like you said, our priorities are all flipped around.
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