move more toward understanding the mechanism we all seem to use to lens our lives,
I was watching a very strange movie on my iPad last night...that's my soporific, movies that are interesting but not riveting so I can drift off. The movie was I Am Mother: A robot raises the last human on earth, or at least that's what we think. Anyway, as the child grows she is presented with a philosophical dilemma: giving organs from a living person to save five people, or letting the five die and the living person keep the organs. The child starts asking questions about the people. Are they good people? Is the organ donor a good person. She is looking at the effect of the action. The robot mother is perplexed.
"Last month you would have given me a different answer," the robot declares.
The child responds,
"Last month you were teaching me Kant. This month you are teaching me Comte."
Fascinating exchange. What is the 'bible' the child is to follow? What is the source of truth?
It's an interesting discussion, and I think it is at the heart of that movie, and I think it touches on your discussion here. Unfortunately, I did fall asleep so I didn't see the movie to the end :)))
I love this... we can, and I certainly have, switch our lenses. In my younger years I had quite the nihilist streak, and thus things I find valuable today meant nothing.
Maybe the real challenge is to find the healthiest lens to use.
Wouldn't it be sad if we didn't change...a life lived and nothing learned :)