Saturday, August 2, 2008

More on circumstancialism

I want to share some more of the philosophical work I have been creating.


Circustancialism is not a Humanism.

The making of circumstancialism started thanks to the inspiration from the work of a handful of philosophers, economists, intellectuals, and entrepreneurs. As you might guess Sartre caused the greatest impact on my life and my way of thinking. I retook Sartre's work because I have found deep similarities in our way of assessing life situations. I am not at all suggesting I can come even close to him, rather I am just saying my way of seeing life is similar to JPS. Long before I started studying Sartre I believed that we can best learn how life works by understanding the circumstances of our life at a given time. This is remarkable because Sartre said during an interview (in the 70's I believe) that life taught him the force of circumstances. That is, he believed in what I believe only that it took him a while to realize that. which after reflexion and work motivated me to reassess his work, but adding on the circumstantial factor. There was yet another thing that pushed me to pursue the philosophical direction. People, analyzing people the way we act and live our "every day life's" revealed me something rather terrifying. We live a systematic life, only a few people have the courage to go against main stream. The way society acts nowadays makes it impossible for people with no credentials to come up with with good stuff. I also noticed that people project themselves onto others. With that I mean that people are afraid to try to be proactive in their best personal interest (here we have to be careful in defining our personal interest and what society dictates), because THEY ARE AFRAID to be judged. I have to phenomenal examples to proove my point:

1.- Well the first has to deal with academia (obviously). I have also happen to work on some mathematics this summer. I have been working on an aspect of the theory of numbers, but I have been turned down because I am just a student whose primary interest is not even math. In addition, I was quickly underestimated by someone who is known to be critical. It took this person about two minutes to figure that I was not good material for grad school because two reasons, my GPA, and my lack of involvement(ha haha). I think it was hilarious because I did not even had time to share more of myself and what motivates me and so on and so forth. No! the person cut me and also had the decency to say "I don't want to make you feel bad" (more ha haha).


2.-The example of "real" life and "best" personal interest pursue. I was over a friends house for BBQ, sometime in July I think. Everything was going great until his dad again negatively impacted me with his very personal views of what to do to succeed in life. This person is setting his kid in the most comfortable and systematic situations. They both believe that getting an internship is the ultimate goal in life and after that getting a job in order to get married, get insurance, open a 401 k, and wait until a miserable age to retire. When I said I was looking to go to grad school their first reaction was "good luck paying for it." They think because my friend is a conformist I am too, ha haha. Well no, I am sorry to disappoint everyone. FUCK being like every one else I am not YOU so stop FUCKING being such a champion of sincerity and take care of your miserable ranged life...

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