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The idea that it'd be "wrong" for a world to exist wherein entropy had less of a hold and change were merely lateral rather than downward is, itself, a religious belief, likely born from a desire to rationalize, soften, or cope with the harsh realities with which we live in ours.
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being a Believer is so tiresome you'll see people being like, "change is good!" and then five years later they'll caveat it with "*as long as the change is in a positive direction. (translation: maybe we shouldn't be abandoning good things just for the sake of change, especially if they result in regresss instead of progress)" as though you haven't been sitting at the top of that metaphorical mountain the entire time all while being called names like "immature" and "unenlightened" for it :/
I've said this before, almost in these exact words, I'm sure, but a thing being finite, brief, limited, isn't what gives it value--those are secondary, unrelated traits. Progress can exist above a zero-limit (at perfection), without needing to be reset. A broken leg now healed "adds" to a person's life not from its brokenness but because of its being cared-for. A sunset is beautiful because it's beautiful: this beauty is found in its appearance (its colors, its brightness, the contrast between the rim of the sky and the darkness above, and how this combines with our ability to perceive the dimension of aesthetic beauty), and it would stay beautiful if you captured it in a photograph or painting. If you visited a planet whereupon the sunset was permanent, it would be beautiful there, too (it gets like that a few days a year around the polls at each of their high summers on our own planet. They are just as beautiful even while they last longer. We call it a "sunSET" in our language but it's just the state of the sun being angled near a given horizon.) It's human folly to conflate the bad bits with the good, to say that a thing's brevity, even though unrelated, somehow "gives" it its other traits. You're human, you have a brain--you know how to dissect these elements, separating good from bad. Otherwise, nobody would've ever made antidote or blood pressure medicine from venom. Some good things can exist independently. It's your job as a creature with a brain sophisticated enough to develop a sense of ethics whether or not it wants to to find them. It gets old when even old people praise such sentiments for their "wisdom"--a thing isn't beautiful because it can die. What are you talking about. Think further.
You know an analogy is bad when it says that the capacity for growth is finite, and that suffering is the ultimate test of our progress. (Just read that mountain-metaphor on my own tl lmao)
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A discouraging number of young people will misunderstand the purpose of growth to be "constant, directionless change (merely for change's own sake)," rather than, "getting from somewhere worse to somewhere better," because of the implicit cultural notion that there is no right or wrong (Relativism/Nihilism), which is simply not cogent.
If a person wants to believe they are capable of changing for the better, if they want to believe in progress and a brighter future, if they want to believe that certain actions cause harm, and therefore hold negative value, and that other actions cause healing, and therefore hold positive value, they must relinquish the idea that there is no "better" or "worse," no moral direction or dimension, while embracing the truth that there *can* be a "better," that you don't need to relinquish your values if you've landed somewhere good. There's no point at which you have to abandon the pursuit of racial equality, or the belief that misogyny informs rape culture, or that everyone deserves food, love, and shelter, and so forth, just because your heart has moved onto a different fight.
Not all change is progress, and some people change for the worse--this is why change shouldn't be the only measure by which we judge True Progress. Your step-counting app may clock you at 4 miles while you've just been making circles around your driveway.
You might change in other ways, but once you've found something important worth believing in, holding onto, and fighting for, you don't have to give it up a few years down the road just to prove you're shedding the old.
I hope Iām understood.
U think itās woke to be indifferent to death and suffering? Itās ājust the way nature is?ā R.I.P. to yāall but Iām different xoxoxo
If itās true that, āIt is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society,ā (Jiddu Krishnamurti), one can therefore only extrapolate that (only on account of the worldās negative aspects, for this exercise), to develop any kind ofĀ āstrengthā for withstanding this worldās various struggles is merely reactionary, and that said strength does not have any intrinsic value of its own, but only extrinsic usefulness for a given situation. It seems better for a creature to come into existence already perfectly-suited to its environment, and its environment to it, than to have to work toward that goal from the bottom. Strength, by that definition alone, would then mean the level to which the original state of the self (physical, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, etc.) has been exchanged for the newer, moreĀ āsuitableā state.Ā
This is one more distinction between True and False Progress--True Progress extends beyond the state of neutrality, of being perfectly-suited, of zero, into the positives of discovery, whereas False Progress merely reaches to neutrality from the negative, from the imperfect, from the under-prepared and suffering states. After True Progress has been accessed, strengthās purpose is no longer merely reactionary, but a means to more sophisticated ends.Ā
*Note: This is because itās inadvisable to set the bar belowĀ āzero.ā
