Sense on some mean-making machines

I'd like to applaud Irving for pointing out something that seems to be a big issue among all people- Motivation and perception. I have seen some who have confronted the fact as to how small we are compared to the universe, and how pointless and chaotic it is, completely fall apart. Depending on who they were and the kind of life they lived, I've seen them droop somewhere from only needing a couple of days to shake the feeling, to points where it seems like they just refuse to live the here and now given to them.

For we, as thinking beings, mobilize ourselves in our surroundings thinking that with every stride we make has some sort of impact on anyone's life. That we go to work, to school, knowing that we are participating in something vital to our culture and community. We do not look at the true grand scheme of things in fear of what we may find; we stray away in case true design rears its head to show us our true purposes in a gigantic universe.

Our perception holds us so that we are important; Our work can not continue without major flaw without us there, that class is not right should we be absent. We believe, at times, that we are kings and queens; pioneering events that directly involve us, that so should we choose, we may empower or devastate any action in our paths. And should we be motivated, work effortlessly flows from our fingertips, fabricating progress, letting result flow wildly down wind.


Alas, should our perception be tainted, showing us that our royality is instead just a pawn's play in a grand scheme, simply turns to pure devastation. The wings we soar upon our skies with, shattered; as with the rest of our will. We see ourselves perching on top of a great tree, overseeing everything; that we are untouchable, our pride unbreakable and our importance is vast.
Morally, we would cannibalize ourselves should we come to believe we are but a small spec of dust on an ever-expanding and pointless universe.

As for this overblown explanation of personal belief, it sums up nicely to a "I Agree with Irving Kristol".

And this does relate more towards Plato's "Socrates' Apology" in the sense of what Socrates himself has been saying; that man simply is ignorant enough to not recognize its surroundings outside his primal senses of sight, smell, taste, touch, and sound. That man continuously acts with held superiority, below its own created gods showing off their superiority; completely failing to see, and unwilling to see, anything aside from how great their self is to them, and to others.