Sunday, August 8, 2010

greatness

for all the economic and evolutionary assumptions about self-interest and selfishness, people still yearn for something higher, something to transcend, something intangible and beyond whatever it is that we understand.

those singular moments of greatness - when suddenly something in us gets moved - great beauty, great love, great selflessness - we know there is something that is beyond logic.

nevermind that it maybe evolutionary beneficial, nevermind it may one day be replicable by computer algorithms - i know it's something that has no bearing on my material life and yet, nothing in life could be greater than those moments.