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Originally Posted by ifst5
So you've effectively gone and answered your own question? Besides i said *almost* a whiff of arrogance, and it's true. The planet is destroyed, there are wars without end, poverty that there's more than enough money to fix and on and on it goes. I'm not overly fond of humanity but i especially dislike sitting here and asking ourselves these sorts of questions when there's work to be done. Maybe that's a useful purpose.
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As a former student of philosophy + biology, it is not arrogant to question ones purpose or how to put purpose into action. What is arrogant, however, is suggesting that your purpose may be worth more as you are placing your causes on a hierarchy that you are limiting others to touch.
Humans are some of the only animals capable of critical thinking therefore we are capable of understanding our place on earth and we are also capable of finding resources in order to preform better ourselves or maybe find work that fulfills us while helping others.
You may not be a fan of humanity, but you are human. And that is a start to self discovery. Just because an individual looks further into themselves does not make them arrogant, it is one of the only individual status that differentiates us from other animals. We are taught, by society, to not embrace this due to its "selfish" nature. Which is rubbish. There is nothing selfish about further self discovery or the righting of ones personal compass.
Take me, as an example. I was purposeless. I felt useless. I realized, after all my education and student loans I cant ever pay off, that I wanted to help people in abusive situations. I stumbled upon a program that takes in underprivileged adults and gives them a free education to obtain a regently recognized certification in crisis counseling. I work 12 hour shifts 3 times a week and is that not helping others through my own self discovery? Is that not aiding in the betterment of society through me searching for my own individual purpose in life?
I am not aiming to attack you. I have always personally disliked the idea of ignoring our own individual growth because the world has gone to hell. We may not be able to fix these things on our own, but I'll be damned if people are told not to learn to embrace themselves and find, or create, their own directions and purposes to fulfill and create a better life for themselves.
Humanity may have been shot to hell. That doesn't mean the individual needs to be shot down, too. It just means we have to work harder.
I apologize for not reading this whole thread, but this one reply stood out to me for some reason or another.