Happy birthday, Evil

03.11.2004

Evil Bill turned 27 today. He wrote this bit of philosophy:

I. through one lens (one which I'm usually looking through) life is a pendulum of desire and then guilt for fulfilling the desire. sometimes there's less guilt than others, for various reasons.

II.
moving towards human progress is like trying to go up or down in space; depending on who's driving, the right direction will always seem different. if there is any such thing as progress, then it implies a course we "should" be following. And if the implication of that "should" is correct than a host of other things is implied including absolute truths, right & wrong, etc. What disturbs me most, for some reason, is that so many millions of people could think they're doing the correct thing to advance humanity towards progress but could actually be going down instead of up. I'm struck by the fact that some vast portions of society might be wrong in how they try to serve the greater good and in the energy they're putting into that wrong turn ...

Posted by Miguel at 03:32 PM