Negativism and Positivism
Due to deal with certain questions in life I was led to see any positivism as a shallow calculation of possibilities. It was long ago when I was a young guy still paradoxically expecting somehow any kind of redemption to come to me.Does it mean that any pending situation should take the worst result after all?
I suppose somehow the so-called Murphy Law has turned up as the intellectual version of Western Civilization to a fact that is well-known by other civilizations: the instability of complex and well-structured entities. I think modern science (threby made in the West) has come up with the conclussions supplied by the Second Law of Thermodynamics: the complex systems have the key of their own destruction in their own organization.
What does all this have to do with a positive outlook of life and daily issues of a human being? I think they always point out to the aspect of the partial calculations that ignore one or the other vital aspect of life. There are many examples in our life in this respect. all of them enhanced by the kind of naive ideas humans have hatched for centuries about their "purpose" on this earth and the legend of the final happy end.
The case is that -and it only came just when my "deep-down" and cloaked hopes of a teenager receded or fell flat- it can be easily discovered by anyone that when this simple realization of an open world free of purposes or hopes is built new kinds of possibilites turn up and finally the dicotomy between negativisn and positivism vanish giving way to a stronger outlook of life that can sound gloomy in most of the times -just because its strong poetry reflects suffering in life and a deep longing for meaning- but have the strength of the living things that have not been contaminated by our humanity -especially the one developed in the last 2000 years-
I have lately reflected on that -as it always happens when one undergoes some little or big revolutions- and then I have seen clearly why I can stand solid when other people oscillate between their pompous positivism -that usually falls flat in front of heavy hardships- and their negativism expressed as impotence to deal with hard reality.
In the mountains things like that are always taught to those that want to learn and open their hearts to listen to the elements. So have I tried to learn too while watching the sky and thinking that I was so glad to be there and that my destiny had been there embracing me all along my way.
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