That is how society is today, so please tell me—given these realities and in the light of what I have said—can you still say the world is simple?
PHILOSOPHER: “There is no change in what I say. The world is simple and life is simple, too.
YOUTH: “How? Anyone can see that it’s a chaotic mass of contradictions.
PHILOSOPHER: “That is not because the world is complicated. It’s because you are making the world complicated.
YOUTH: “I am?” PHILOSOPHER: “None of us live in an objective world, but instead in a subjective world that we ourselves have given meaning to.”
The world you see is different from the one I see, and it’s impossible to share your world with anyone else.
YOUTH: “How can that be? You and I are living in the same country, in the same time, and we are seeing the same things—aren’t we?”
PHILOSOPHER: “You look rather young to me, but have you ever drunk well water that has just been drawn?”
YOUTH: “Well water? Um, it was a long time ago, but there was a well at my grandmother’s house in the countryside.”
I remember enjoying the fresh, cold water drawn from that well on a hot summer’s day.
PHILOSOPHER: “You may know this, but well water stays at pretty much the same temperature all year round, at about sixty degrees.”
That is an objective number—it stays the same to everyone who measures it.”
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