Of
course, there are things in life more important than money
but ... they
are very expensive.
The
above saying I’ve overheard on a ferryboat, while crossing the
Brački kanal. Beside being a nice twist of words’ meaning,
the occasion initiated yet another train of my thoughts. The
acknow- ledgment of my rather limited socializing skills and
intentions. (Are they separable? Well ...) I’m heavily oriented
on books: they are more thoughtful, more reliable, more friendly,
more everything - or so I believe. Are they?
Maybe.
Look, what I am missing in a book environment is a ‘right moment’
for a thought to be met. In a book, author is deciding when and
how a thought appears, in a circumstances not always fruitful for
a particular reader at the particular moment. Wouldn’t it be
better to account a thought "live’, not categorized
somewhere, in a book? Aren’t the socializing interactions ones
which deter- mine the meaning of true and false, good
and bad, acceptable and wrong, important
and meaningless?
Dialogue.
Yes, dialogs could be a solution for me. Except, I so easily fail
to maintain friendly dialogs. Actually, I loose my old friends,
professional colleagues of former years in particular. One is lost
on religious issues, the other on the theory of technological
systems. The third lost me on insisting that life consist of
various ‘technics’, life in general. And a couple of physicist
lost on the subject of the profile of current theoretical physics
and the philo- sophy underlining experimental physics of
elementary particles. So. Very few left. |
Two
chimpanzee friends groom each other. The evolution of recipro- cal
altruism helps account for many human feelings, ranging from
trust, sympathy, and gratitude to guilt, moral outrage, and even
the sense of justice.
SOURCE:
Moral Animal by Robert Wright (1994) |