On The Prospect Of Any 'Ultimate, Final, Absolute Synthesis'

There will never, ever be any 'Ultimate, Final, Absolute Synthesis'. Hegel was dead wrong on this account.

The only 'Ultimate Synthesis' -- is death.

What I mean by this, is that as long as we are living and breathing, we will always be in a fight for restoring 'balance in our lives' in a way that keeps us alive and fighting for life -- at least unless, or until, we decide to give up this fight.

Thus, the 'teeter-totter' or 'swinging pendulum' process in life is always with us -- both internally and externally -- until our life is over.

Only then can we talk about any 'Final Synthesis' -- complete entropy.


Until then, nothing is ever, ever going to be 'final'.


Any thought of a 'final ultimate Life Utopia' is completely bogus -- and simply gives new fodder for the gristmill of a whole host of new 'Counter-Utopias'...and 'New Syntheses' which in turn may be either warmly or coldly perceived and received...or both...and nothing ever ends unless or until there is some ultimate Holocaust...and even out of the ashes of this potential Holocaust new forms of life will likely spring anew...like new saplings springing out of the remnants of a Giant Forest Fire...

-- dgb, Nov. 17th, updated Nov. 22nd, 2009.

-- David Gordon Bain