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4/24/2016 4:06:33 AM
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This particular video is always something I've looked to. For the context, Oppenheimer was the intellectual director of The Manhattan Project, which was the federally sponsored project researching nuclear physics that created the first nuclear bomb ever detonated, Trinity, and the two dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. When asked what was going through his mind when Trinity was tested, this was his answer. An extremely humbling moment of scientific advancement. The moment when we realize we have effectively drawn the card, the card which can eradicate humanity, out of the deck.
Also, another member of the Manhattan Project, and a Nobel Laureate, Richard Feynman is someone I love to listen to/read from. "You gotta stop and think about it, to really get the complexity, the inconceivable nature of nature." Inspiration to be better and learn more. If anyone is interested in physics, or is taking classes currently and may be finding it a tad difficult, I implore you to read The Feynman Lectures (available for free thanks to Caltech: [url=http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/]Here's a link[/url]), he is excellent at breaking apart complex ideas for the common man.
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Edited by Britton: 4/24/2016 4:37:28 AMThat is a video of a man deeply contemplating his impact on humanity, and he's clearly wrestling with if he has just doomed us all. For me, seeing that kind of internal conflict, is exactly the kind of thing that can make my own problems seem small. Which reminds me of this pic. ^ How we frame our thoughts and the problems we face speaks volumes about what we value as individuals IMO.
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Well, our little idiosyncrasies is what keeps us from being nihilistic, and what keeps us from losing hope for a better tomorrow. I can't blame people for being caught up in their lives, because that's what pushes them to get out of bed in the morning. What I can say though, is that when you are offered a chance to view nature at its most nihilistic, the chaotic semblance of uncertainty, is the point at which existentialism can be appropriately questioned. We see the Pale Blue Dot, and ask ourselves if that is really all we are. I think the difference between a productive individual and a non productive individual is the ability to blindly answer "no." I also think that people who are overtly concerned with their life, have either not been offered this view, or were satisfied with saying yes. Neither is a very good situation, but I say ignorance is far better than satisfaction. "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is only because they only know their own side of the question. " - John Stuart Mills, from his book, "Utilitarianism."
