MAR 24, 2013  

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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)

   
 

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