Why?

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

Why do we do what we do? Why do we work? Why do we build? What are we accomplishing? Why is it so important? Does it really matter?

Think about it. Why do we wake up every day and go to work? To earn money. Why do we earn money? To buy stuff. Why do we buy stuff? To eat and to be entertained. Why do we need to eat and be entertained? Because if we don’t eat we die and if we aren’t entertained we lose our minds. So we work to keep from dying and losing our minds.

Why do we do what we do at work? Is it really important? Why do we build websites? Websites are a form of communication. What are we communicating? Information vital to help us to remain healthy, entertained, and a way to keep in touch with others. What’s the point of all this? Once again, our survival physically and mentally.

So really, we build websites, formulate theories, design programming languages, lay miles of fiber, drill for oil, pump gas, invent recipies and fly planes for the sole purpose of making sure we eat and remain entertained long enough to avoid going nuts before we die.

Is that it? That’s what this is all about? The wars? The conflicts? The sponsorship scandals, the genocides, the voting fraud, draft dodgers and watergate? Is that all it’s about in the end? Politics, diplomacy, technology and the exploration of the universe really only boil down to “what am I going to eat tonight, and is my favourite show going to be on?”

Then again, maybe not.

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Sarven Capadisli says:
February 16th, 2006 at 7:38 pm
So why are you asking this?

You are right though.. it does boil down to what we have to eat tonight. Although I am sure people from various backgrounds will approach to answering and justifying this in their own way.

We have trouble justifying to ourselves if we even should exist or not, yet alone figure out if we even exist in the first place. Otherwise, we wouldn’t be here right now - perhaps that question alone we are not ready to answer conclusively. Until then, given our current status, we have a desire to survive as a whole - regardless of the chaotic matters that has happened throughout the history of mankind. Needless to say, a hidden living energy (not necessarily the spiritual kind) - or call it mentality - that makes us go from state A to B - whatever that may be.

Given this, our hidden agenda is to continue the existence of our species. We eat, sleep, work, mate, .. and if we get the combination right, we are able to create variations of our selves. All for the good of humanity. A contribution in one form or another.. to what extent; that we can’t answer.

So either way Ara, eat your vegetables tonight! :)
giornalista says:
March 5th, 2006 at 12:39 am
Welcome to the existential vacuum, can I take your order while you wait to shuffle off your mortal coil?

We’ve all got to do something to occupy our time between birth and the big sleep. Might as well be working, consuming vast quantities of material goods (whether we need them or not) and trying to find some entertainment in between all the boredom.

The irony is that the people for whom ”eating and watching TV” best typifies the best part of life generally eat the worst food and watch the worst TV shows.
Edd says:
June 1st, 2006 at 10:57 pm
Some people work for the only purpose of making sure they eat, for others their job is the sense of their life and the possibility of self-actualization.