Underground eXperts United File 497

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         [  Nothing Comes From Nothing  ]      [  By Absolute Zero  ] 

 
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 Nothing Comes From Nothing 
 by Absolute Zero 

 
A comfortable way to dodge questions of magnitude, yet at the same time 
appear sincerely engaged in something "important", is to over and over again 
involve oneself in so-called small projects. 
   These kind of projects can virtually be whatever. One can search for a 
new home for a lost kitten, raise money for a scarf to someone who has lost 
his own, pray to God every morning, or why not start up a public society for 
advancing the knowledge on how to use a remote control? 
   Explicit justification for such projects are always the same: "... one 
cannot bear the troubles of the whole world on one's shoulders, one ought 
to attempt to do the little, because then the big will become better too." 
   On other words, the more people that do "the little" the better it will 
be for "the big"; that is, one and every individual within the biosphere. 
It is assumed that "little things" automatically have a cumulative effect; a 
mountain can equally well be created out of a single giant rock as billions 
and billions pebbles. 
   Bearing in mind the state and constitution of the world, one surely 
cannot demand that all people give up their personal projects and lives in 
favor of universal interests. To suggest that would be to be utterly 
inhuman. But it is really proper to claim that "doing little things" will 
lead to utopia? Ought we give up all speculation on this question, and 
conclude that "doing little things" will not merely MAYBE have the desired 
consequences, but that it in fact will, BY NECESSITY? 
   Of course not; it does not take much brain power to understand that. It 
does not matter if we had had thousands and thousands of people washing 
windows, collecting garbage, reading poetry, serving coffee, discussing 
Sartre, telling stories to children, writing textfiles, analysing concepts, 
happily throwing billions and billions of pebbles onto the pile of supposed 
progress, and so on, inside Chernobyl. The reactor had exploded anyhow. 
   So what are we going to do? 

 
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  Hey you, this has been a REFLECTION 
  more available at <www.uxu.org/nag> 
  but only if you understand Swedish. 
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