| </span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (Plaything48,)
Man does not live by bread alone, nor by know-how, children safety or sex. People everywhere spend as much time as they can afford on activities, that in the struggle to survive and reproduce, seem pointless. [ ]
Now as if that weren't enough of a puzzle, it seems the more biologically frivolous and vain the activity, the more people exhalt it. Art, literature, music, wit, religion, and philosophy are thought to be not just pleasurable, but noble. They are the mind's best work, what makes life worth living. We pursue the trivial and futile and experience them as sublime.[ ] <hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
My personal subjective POV is that intelligence grew out of rationality and logic as an extremely viable survival trait- only it overachieved on the humble "best surival" objective, to the extent that "boredom" became a contra-survival indicator.
Hence the invention of all the noble pursuits by man to survive the contra-survival boredom and associated depression. "Noble" in the sense that it is actually pro-survival specifically targetting our unique rational intelligent mentality. |