Just Stop It, Nick
Feb. 17th, 2023 09:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloIt's not rational or reasonable to be a materialist.
Materialism is simply a viewpoint, based on a selection of the evidence that presents itself to our senses but disregarding the rest.
You could be rude and call it a prejudice.
It's certainly not scientific. Contemporary science (as opposed to the Victorian science we perversely cling to) has shown us that matter doesn't exist.
I'm reading this book co-authored by Nick Cave. He isn't a materialist but keeps characterising the materialist viewpoint as "rational"- in opposition to his preferred viewpoint which one might characterise as "spiritual", "mystical" or (the word he favours though I don't) "religious". I wish he wouldn't. Every time he does it I want to drive over to Brighton, take him by the lapels and shake him.
Which would be foolish because he's younger than I am and almost certainly in better condition....
Materialism is simply a viewpoint, based on a selection of the evidence that presents itself to our senses but disregarding the rest.
You could be rude and call it a prejudice.
It's certainly not scientific. Contemporary science (as opposed to the Victorian science we perversely cling to) has shown us that matter doesn't exist.
I'm reading this book co-authored by Nick Cave. He isn't a materialist but keeps characterising the materialist viewpoint as "rational"- in opposition to his preferred viewpoint which one might characterise as "spiritual", "mystical" or (the word he favours though I don't) "religious". I wish he wouldn't. Every time he does it I want to drive over to Brighton, take him by the lapels and shake him.
Which would be foolish because he's younger than I am and almost certainly in better condition....
