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[Paul Mackin]

Otto Sell wrote:

> One of the logical consequences of our absurd
> modern-postmodern-state-of-the-nations is that nothing makes sense and you
> can easily kill yourself because it would doesn't matter. But it's like
> this: if it doesn't matter if you're alive or dead you can best stay alive
> as well and makes the best out of it, maybe reading those old "dusty" (as
> someone on this list called them) Greeks.

Right on, Otto. The value of Life isn't really affected all that much by
whether we are able to make sense of it.  That sort of question is
mainly of interest to philosophers. Rather--long long before the
realization was achieved in the world's centers of higher thought that
the truths we thought we had discovered (but had only invented) about
our world were flawed to the core,  it had been emphatically clear to
the least of our primal instinctual reptile brains (for eons) that
mortal existence itself was EVEN MORE FLAWED. However as you say (and
Dorothy Parker once said)  WE MIGHT AS WELL LIVE--as true in the
"postmodern" year 2000 as in the "premodern" year 0.

                            P.

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