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October 3, 2011
" For perfectibilitarians, perfect ends tomorrow justify very imperfect means today. "
The whole is not a pharaonic cosmos; a blind obsession with pyramids, assembling, slaves.Our pyramid has not apex; is not a pyramid. We are not slaves that will never see the summit, because there is no summit. Life may be less imperfect in a hundred years' time than it it today; but it will be even less imperfect a hundred years after that. Perfectibility is meaningless because whatever we enter the infinite processes we can look forward with a wind of nostalgia for the future, and imagine a better age. It is also evil, because a terminus of perfection breeds a cancer of the now. For perfectibilitarians, perfect ends tomorrow justify very imperfect means today. -- John Fowles, Philosophy, The Aristos
Posted by Vanderleun at October 3, 2011 11:30 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.