It really is not whether one is cynical or optimistic (about man in his consciousness of knowing) as those words mean little in the context of this discussion. For both, whether describing themselves or being described, would consider themselves realists. The cup half full is the same cup as half empty, neither view can dis-annul the other. Nor establish itself as the more correct.
We are more the cup itself thinking we can hold anything of substance to our own determining; as though we already have some knowledge of how and what a full cup would appear as. And thence determine with some accuracy gradations along the way. But what man ever sees himself clearly of all relativity, being self convinced that at any and every point he could mention or measure…his own consciousness is presently as full as it can be? And, no less, as right as it can be? What could bring a man to see, no less admit, I am right about no thing? How much of such relativity would need be seen, revealed, understood…before a man might say “All my knowing is as nothing in its attaining if I labor according to some measure against all knowing?” And laboring against all knowing is neither a peculiarly nor cleverly phrased description. We walk…to an end. We run to some end of running, we do to some end of doing. And we are conscious to some end of having, or being, conscious.
Yeah, we are deep enough in it now; whether one thinks of it as off into the tall grass, or waist deep in the big muddy, or just the plainest and most common apparition apportioned to every man; his own death. That hour of no more dawn. And where each is moved by a consciousness made exquisitely conscious of its own limit though unable to receive it as so. Consciousness cannot enter the place of its own non-being, and even so, it looks, it devises, it becomes as death is becoming to it (as one writer whose quote I have never been able to find again, put it) all and only metaphor. Surely it perceives and has, others dying…but to itself death is merely a symbol, a metaphor…whose reality is incomprehensible to itself. Even the most rational thinking (or those touted so) and man full of his own reasonings (as atheist or agnostic as he may be) cannot forbid himself from all his own illogic in taking a “peek”.
“I have looked, and there’s nothing there”. (Except me…to come back and report)
Or is it ill logic?
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