How much are we willing to pay for it
Anything which is limited but high in demand is expensive. It may not have any intrinsic value, that doesn’t matter, the price just goes up sometimes exponentially. After a point, we stop asking or wondering why we want it, or even if its necessary — we must just have it. Its no longer what’s out there but more of what’s happening inside our mind that determines the value of something. I often thought that the tension created in turning a want into a need is the thirst for achievement. It can be gratifying to build up a mountain of desire and then goad yourself to vanquish it. But that doesn’t quite explain how someone else can twist you into believing that the mountain is worth climbing, unless of course, it has an element of uncertainty.
We have become obsessed with making Science win
Nature is uncertain and we find that unsettling. We must know the weather not just for today, but the entire week or month if possible. Science is based on facts driven by assumptions and hardened by experiments. We have become obsessed with making Science win. In our pursuit to explain everything, we strive to reason, explain and sometimes neutralize the anomaly that exists in Nature. We want certainty and are willing to pay anything for it. Certainty has become a commodity.
The Certainty we’re seeking changes shape the moment we begin searching for it
Being fed with information from a plethora of sources that bombard you through a live feed of what is happening in every nook and cranny of the world without actually being witness to any of it, messes up your inner radar. You can no longer use your own judgement to decide what is real or not — that is the irony of certainty. We’re paying for it, thinking it might alleviate the anxiety of not knowing what is. On the contrary, we only seem to be getting more paranoid with the volume of answers we find. The Certainty we’re seeking changes shape the moment we begin searching for it.
The question is not about whether we should seek answers, its about do we know when to stop.
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