Life is an emergency. The real question is: how can we truly be fulfilled in life? How can we create lives that are truly worth living, given that these lives come to an end?
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➤ Summarized Transcript:
"Life appears to be an emergency. It’s a long emergency, for many of us, but it is an emergency. You can’t help but notice that things are going very wrong in this place. No matter how much fun you are having, a glance at a newspaper will show you that it’s possible to have no fun at all. And everyone seems to have a round of bad luck, in the end.
It’s hard not to see the absurdity of the situation: you unwrap your shiny new iPad, upon which you hope to squander an unconscionable amount of time and attention, only to discover, and perhaps on the iPad itself, that the people who built this gorgeous device live lives of such unendurable drudgery, that they regularly hurl themselves of the rooftops, at the factory where they work. Nets have been installed to catch their falling bodies. Is there any sense to be made of disparities of luck of this kind?
To not believe in god is to know that falls to us to make the wold a better place. We have barely emerged from centuries of barbarism. It’s not a surprise that there are shocking inequities in this world. It is hard work to climb down out of a trees, walk upright and build a viable global civilization, when you start with technology that’s made of rocks, and sticks and fur. This is a project and progress is difficult.
So, real progress is a really recent phenomena. But, most of us know, that no matter how much progress we make, it’s very unlikely that we’re gonna make this world a paradise. We’re not gonna truly make it invulnerable to insult, and injury and death. It’s true that there a few serious people who think that we might cure all disease and even aging itself, or upload our consciousnesses onto some perfected AI (artificial intelligence). I think, when you look closely at those efforts, it begins to look like science enabled religion, at this point.
I think it’s safe to say that the reality of death is something we’re all gonna have to face, and the loss of those we love. There’s no perfecting this place. Even if you play your game perfectly, and you become as healthy as a vampire, you, if you just live long enough, you’re gonna witness the death of everyone you love. At certain point, the phone is just going to start ringing with bad news.
Even our memories are precarious. My daughter is three and a half years old and I’m astonished at how much of her life I’ve forgotten. To see a video of her taken a year ago is to be astonished at how unfamiliar it is. She is a completely different person now. There’s no satisfying way to hold on to the past. In fact, when you look closely, there’s no unsatisfying way of doing it, either. We are locked in the present moment, the memory is a thought arising in the present. We are locked in the present moment with our thoughts and our iPads.
Part of us always knows that we’re just a doctor’s visit away, a phone call away, from being starkly reminded with the fact of our own mortality, or of those closest to us. I’m sure, many of you in this room have experienced this in some form. The one thing people tend to realize, at moments like this, is that they wasted a lot of time, when life was normal. They cared about the wrong things. They regret what they cared about. Don’t you know that there’s gonna come a day when you’ll be sick, or someone close to you will die, and you’ll look back on the kinds of things that captured your attention and you’ll think: ”What was I doing?”
How can we live lives that are truly worth living, given that these lives come to an end? Life appears to be an emergency. It is always now."
➤ Speaker:
Sam Harris
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➤ Source:
Death and The Present Moment
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