Animals live in a lower world to humans and have less ability to escape Samsara

unless youre going to tell me animals dont need food

or water

the idea of having a full life is that youre building on that foundation

But our recent adaptations are like duct tape. While our lower brain is a solid base.

that is built on teh edge of your perception

that wiiide wide wide space is where value exists

albeit in a metaphysical sense

it makes it that beleiveing in a god in a pragmatic sense is the same as not beliving in a god

Higher brain stuff just seems like flavoring to lower brain drives to me.

and just ends up being intellectual jerking off

So abstraction is basically just aesthetic.

BUT with no real world outcome

well like i said

there are tangible things we can abstract over

which brings me back to the point i was trying to make about god

abstracting about something past our perceptual reality is essentially aesthetic

its liek saying

how ami decorating the foundation of my house

well fuck nobodies gonna see that shit cuz its underground

I think we were talking about two different things at the same time and our points just converged in a hamfisted way.

and who cares if ur foundations painted red or blue

if you cant even see it

Part of a classical liberal arts education is a study of aesthetics

also makes trying to paint it really fucking dumb

yes but in tangible ways

hence the art example i gave earlier

lol and dont get me wrong im not saying aesthetics is useless in a pragmatic way

i mean fuck im a musician lol

Same

so maybe that makes me biased saying its not useless

Well. So am I and I believe what I believe.

Sigh.

Back to the main topic.

Who wants us to move to this authoritarian liberal paradigm?

What is pushing us towards it and to what end?

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God

And how practical is it to avoid?

You can't control the world, you can just control yourself

Sounds like a cop out.

You can fight back