Tuesday 5 June 2012

Only beauty will save us.

I came across this sentence again quite recently, and had a chat about it with Professor T. at my university in between classes. At a certain point, after a not-quite-amusing-but-rather-true argument he made about people nowadays not being able to understand this sentence correctly since the population's ability to think is publicly regressing, I replied: "I wonder if it is not naive to expect the people of our time to understand such a notion".

Now it is 4am, I can't sleep.

Yes it is, Will, it's incredibly naive.
Yet I would assume being naive as another application of this saying by Dostoevsky. For this matter, a world which will allow one to be naive and still not be cynically bashed would be a finer world.

As for myself, I have long been influenced by this sentence. I choose to take it as criticism of our everyday lives and the routine that dictates our way of thinking things, always looking towards the next objective, nevermind how much you have. I rarely see individuals who put aside material ambitions in order to enjoy the beauty we're still surrounded with.
Or, in case they actually do that, they will be ridiculed.

Peace.