And this applies to science to some extent too. Science seeks practicality, rather than Truth (with a capital T). In over-simplified words: it creates "models" that can work efficiently.

+ Just to be clear, I do not mean that "everything is relative" and all philosophies are equally valid and invalid... This is just stupid.

As soon as any philosophy begins to believe in itself, it always creates the world in its own image. Thus, philosophy is the tyrannical drive itself, the most spiritual will to power, the will to "creation of the world"


- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good And Evil

I guess Americans must be in real trouble since even Bill Maher (who's generally a leftist, liberal, democrat) believes that this is too much.

Even his show's new slogan "let's get America Re-hinged" can be easily used as a right-wing slogan in the context of bringing America "back" to sanity and to good ol' times.
This tells you how extreme the situation is there.

In America today, a human is no longer born male or female, and obesity is not something that affects health, you can be healthy at any size, really, we voted on it.
A formerly serious magazine last year published with a straight face an article called "Seperating sports by sex doesn't make sense."
I have spent 3 decades on TV mocking Republicans who said climate change was just a theory, and now I got to deal with people who say: you know what else is just a theory? Biology!

- Bill Maher

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Macbeth:
Can't you not minister to a mind diseased,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the brain,
And with some sweet oblivious antidote,
Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff,
Which weighs upon her heart?

Doctor:
Therein the patient
Must minister to himself.

The earth is full of the superfluous, life has been corrupted by the many-too-many. Let them be lured by ‘eternal life’ out of this life!

- Thus Spoke Zarathustra

On the preachers of death:
They would like to be dead, and we should approve their wish! Let us guard against awakening these dead men and damaging these living coffins.
They encounter an invalid or an old man or a corpse; and straightway they say ‘Life is refuted!’
But only they are refuted, they and their eye that sees only one aspect of existence.

- Thus Spoke Zarathustra

الدُعاةُ إلى المَوت:
ما داموا يرغَبونَ بالموت، يجبُ أنْ نَشُدَّ على أيديهم ونوافِقَ على أمانيهم! لِنَحرُس هؤلاءِ المؤتى في رُقادِهم ولنَحمِ هذه النعوشَ الحيّةَ من أنْ تُفتَح.
إذ ما أنْ يُصادِفَوا رجلًا عليلًا أو عجوزًا أو جثّةً حتى يقولوا 'إنّما الحياةُ باطلة!'
لكنّهم هُم وحدَهم الباطِلون، هُم وأعينُهم التي ترى وجهًا واحدًا فقط من الوجود.

- هكذا تكلّم زرادشت

‘Lust is sin’ – thus say some who preach death – ‘let us go aside and beget no children!’
‘Giving birth is laborious’ – say others – ‘why go on giving birth? One gives birth only to unhappy children!’ And they too are preachers of death.
‘Life is only suffering’ – thus others of them speak, and they do not lie: so see to it that you ’ cease to live! So see to it that the life which is only suffering ceases!

- Thus Spoke Zarathustra

'إنّ الشهوةَ خطيئة' – هكذا يقولُ بعضُ الدُّعاةِ إلى الموت – 'سوف نتنحّى جانبًا ونبقى بلا نَسل!'
'أنْ تُنجِبَ ولدًا لَهُوَ أمرٌ مُتعِب' – يقولُ آخرون – 'لِمَ الإنجاب؟ فالمرءُ لا يُنجِبُ سوى أطفالٍ بائسين!' وهؤلاءِ أيضًا هُم دُعاةٌ للموت.
'ما الحياةُ سوى معاناة' – يتحدّثُ مِن بَينِهم آخرون، وهُم ليسوا كاذبين: إذن فلتَعملوا على فناءِكُم! فلتَعمَلوا على فناءِ حياتِكم التي لا شيءَ فيها إلا المعاناة.

آخر مقطع يذكرني بكلام تولستوي:

- What is life?
- Life is a monstrous evil.

The answer would be a true one, but only for the man who gave it.

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