i have a unique world view

a world view is that set of filters, self-deceptions, justifications, and illusions which allows one to remain somewhat sane in an entirely insane world.

a world view is what enables us to continue without overwhelming guilt driving our fancy cars and drinking our fancy coffee and using our fancy A/C while not so far away people are dying of hunger and disease and have no shoes to wear.

some people's world view consists of imagining that there is no world outside their view.

some people pretend there is no suffering in the world.

some imagine that their own suffering is as great as can be found elsewhere.

i have a unique world view. i don't think i've ever laid it out except for one person. people who hang around me long enough can pick up bits and pieces of it.

i can't even say whether i've gotten a grasp on its totality, but clearly, i don't need to. as long as it's still working i can continue on as a happy, semi-functional person.

my world view, in its verbal formulation, is subject to change.

it is a funky combination of empowerment, hope, futility, responsibility, and total, nihilistic surrender, smothered in special sauce.

it is an amalgam of many different philosophies and ways of living.

and even though i'm not going to spell it out here, it's one of the things that makes me unique (even though i said only a short while ago that it's impossible to be statically "unique"). and the illusion of individuality is one of the very things that keeps me sane.

or what passes in my estimation for sane.

huzzah.