contemporary misgivings

29 September, 2008

A Mental Disconnect

Filed under: Philosophy, rant — Tags: , , , , — Alfred Farnsworth @ 7:47 pm

Lately in my pursuits of the unsavory I have noticed a serious disconnect between what I really want and what I’m inclined to want, or as Murphy Moore put it “what I want, and what I want to want”.  What I want is generally my natural inclinations, and what I want to want is the result of intellectual decisions.  So that makes me wonder is intellect an amazing tool, or cruel joke perhaps?

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