I Would Like to Think a Bit of a Nietzschean Attack...

Pompous Statement Of The Day: The problem with all philosophy prior to myself is the inability or unwillingness to recognize the fact of or acknowledge the implications of the non-existence of an essential nature to anything, and the prominence of perpetual change as the only truely essential truth. The Universe is in a constant state of flux as energy becomes matter and matter breaks apart to become energy and all energy and matter interact in a constant chaotic cycle without beginning, end or direction. Entropy being the only guiding principle of the Universe. This all sounds so fucking nebulous and pointless, and it is most certainly the second and probably the first. It is now a basic characteristic of humanity to seek order and patterns in the world around us and to look for meaning in all things. This last sentence of course points to one of the core problems with not only the idea I am attempting to express but the limitations of the language available to me to express it. I say NOW because this characteristic is one which has developed in humans and as such is not essential in that it has not always existed. The desire to find meaning is a result of the growth of the size and complexity of our brains over time. We as animals found it beneficial to find patterns and connections in the world around us as some of these do in fact exist and the recognition of them allows us to better navigate the complexity of the world. As those ancestors of ours who were best able to navigate the world succeeded and procreated we became ever better and seeing patterns but also ever more reliant on them. We began finding patterns, connections, and meanings in the world which were not supported by fact, some of these connections no doubt had negative impacts on individual survival but this of course was not enough to outweigh the benefits and so pattern finders continued to outsurvive non-pattern finders such that eventually there were no non-pattern finders left or those few who continue to appear through random chance are, rightly, identified as developmentally retarded. Ultimately religion and much of philosophy, a pursuit I have devoted my life to, are evolutionary bi-products without any stable basis in other words: Mistakes.