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Originally Posted by chaos  The realization of a truth does nothing to affect your reality while living in that truth, and so you wake up and go to your shitty job because that's what you do, then go to Walmart and buy more shit because that's what you do. |
The enlightenment grew exactly out of questions like these and we don't have to argue about the impact that had. It's not the questions itself that are directly meaningful, but what we understand when we think about it.
Voltaire said that people who were used to regurgitate now began to think and once the time of thinking had come, it'd be impossible to rob the people of that power.
