2026-10-22
Socrates was correct (or was he?)!
If we want to make sense of our world, we must first understand the critical question that we need to ask ...
... and even then, can we reasonably expect a definitive answer?
A child is born, having known nothing but the warmth and comfort of it's Mum's womb.
Imagine the surprise!
It suddenly finds itself in a whole new world of unimagined experiences. He/she now has a very great deal of learning to undertake ...
"Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven" - Matthew 18:3
Contrast with the "Great Awakening", wherein we suddenly find ourselves in a world which beneath our previous perception of its surface turns out to be very substantially different from that perceived surface.
With that one realisation, our world-view, our mind-map of how the world is and how it works, how it was in the past and whither it might be headed in the future, has to be reviewed, demolished as necessary, reinvestigated, and reconstructed from first principles ... and we become in many respects as new-born children again, trying to make sense of it all.
Soon we begin to realise that it may not be just one or two aspects of our previous mind-map that we need to review, there may be no limit to the scope of the task ...
... what if the whole construct was dodgy to begin with? How would we know what is good and what is bad? Ultimately, only our senses (sight hearing touch taste smell and intuition) can be relied upon to begin with, everything beyond that is second-hand information and reliant on someone else's interpretations.
Martin Geddes takes us into the ride of our lives by sharing his experiences, interpretations, and reactions to the events of recent years, with results that many may reject as too disconcerting.
