Saturday, 25 January 2014
The un-understanding is ours
Forget about women, my biggest philosophical discovery (refrain from clapping yet - the biggest so far) is that the un-understanding is ours; our quest to make sense of the Universe as it is now is futile: evil makes no sense, and evil is ours (and Satan's).
(...and the sire of gods and men spoke first. At that moment he was thinking of Aegisthus, who had been killed by Agamemnon's son Orestes; so he said to the other gods:
"See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly. Look at Aegisthus; he must needs make love to Agamemnon's wife unrighteously and then kill Agamemnon, though he knew it would be the death of him; for I sent Mercury to warn him not to do either of these things, inasmuch as Orestes would be sure to take his revenge when he grew up and wanted to return home. Mercury told him this in all good will but he would not listen, and now he has paid for everything in full."
The Odyssey, Book I)
