What Is Really Important
Wanderingstan refers us to Soren Kierkegaard to ask what is really important in life.
The more objective the fact is the less it is important to us relationally – existentially.
On one extreme you have the facts of logic and mathematics; ultimately provable and objective, but not at all important to me as an individual existing human being. This is the realm of logic. On the other extreme is my eternal happiness; ultimately important to me, but not at all provable or objective. This is the realm of faith.
He then relates this concept to the internet.
Wikipedia is where we go for objective facts, Facebook is where we go for relationships. Blogs overlap the two, but tend towards the subjective. Is there a place for something in between blogs and Wiki’s? A wikilog? Should we expect to see further specialization and categorization of these variants? There may be an entrepreneurial opportunity here somewhere.
But, I pause to question Kierkegaard’s thesis on Objectivist grounds. Ought we to place such importance on subjective and unstable relationships? Ought we to derive our worth from external sources which are unreliable? Or is it better to derive it from our interaction with things. I have value because I can make this out of that? Ayn Rand had something of this attitude, and she was declared unfeeling for it.
Aside:
I’d particularly like to get the thoughts of another wanderer: Wandering on
