The Problem

A very common phrase to be heard when you end up fighting about something with someone is that the world does not evolve around you. As frustrating and shut-upping as it may be the first times it breaks the conversation, this statement is the biggest pile of shit I've ever heard. Let's see what's on the inside.

So first of all the world you see around you is not real. The trees, street lamps, houses, even you very own computer screen is there because you see it. It is there because you are there. If we were completely numb and our senses would've completely gone - for instance, we couldn't nor see, hear, feel, taste or smell anything around us. How real would our world be then? How would we ever know that something around us exists? I mean - our world is purely in us - our perception, thus our world lies within the way we've shaped ourselves during the past years to feel the stuff around us. That is just how the world works.
 To step back a bit from this question, let's take a look at the basic build of a problem. Say, your car has broken down in the middle of the road. So now there are a few options for you to do in order to fix this problem - you might want to call to get yourself home, you might want to call and get the car evacuated or you might want to take the bus to your destination you were driving or basically any other option you might think of in the world. And now hear me out - wouldn't it be only logical not to deal with the genesis of the problem rather than trying to deal with anything else? I mean - wouldn't it be only logical to put all your efforts into fixing the car rather than dealing with the lower end of this problem by going home or taking a bus, because only by solving out the genesis of the problem you might find your way further by the same means as you were before the issue happened at all.
 So back to our matter. Taking our newborn idea model, let's see what good comes to us within the issue we looked at before. Obviously, the only genesis of the question is you. And now everything the human race has ever done seems pretty meaningless, doesn't it? To acquire a new car, a new house, buying or working for anything in the world around us just seems useless, because that most definitely is the lower end of getting it. The only way to actually deal with any kind of problem or question in the world is to change the course of your own mind. And it all breaks down to getting purely smarter. Reading more, watching more movies, getting to know the world around you better and better so it would finally start affecting you, your ideas and ideals. And as what philosophy is all about - a certain point where the material world comes useless to you. Isn't that the most beautiful target to reach for in life?

Because in the end - the world does evolve around you.



Cheers.