The Road Runner and Wile E Coyote
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But the
machinery
wants to get something. It's been ground into us from an early age
this all means something, and the way to live a full
life is to find meaning. The problem with that is it's we who
made up meaning in the first place. Then we forgot we did that,
and pretty soon it starts to look like Life itself has
intrinsic meaning.
What a way to live! Werner Erhard calls that "not knowing a stick
from a hole in the ground". That's the basis of the classic trap
the Road Runner sets for Wile E Coyote when he
paints
a door on the side of a mountain, and Wile E Coyote, totally fooled
by what the Road Runner has made up, tries to run through the door
and of course runs smack into the rock wall instead. Wile E Coyote,
as we all know, will run into the rock wall on the side of the
mountain again and again and again. We, on the other hand, are
friends of distinction. We can distinguish the meaning we make
up from "nothing to do, nowhere to go, nothing to get" as
the foundation from which to live a
transformed
life.
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