Charles Dickens

What is the tipping point when an ideal becomes an ideology? When the very ideal of marriage becomes an idolized perception of heaven on earth? An accepted proposal with a the wedding day sometime in this future is for sure is this point of no return.

The pastoral romantics of times past depends on the weather, or more specifically the climate. The Dickens we know emerged from the industrialization of London, the dirty coal of yesteryear. So why is it making a comeback? We should know better!

The accused stands in perpetuity. Exoneration is a new identity, no longer accused, the redemption narrative is an unnecessary salvation. The consumptive knowledge we should be consuming is found in the classics and our ability to respond. That's life!

The contradiction lies within the Jewish Gentile. How do we reconcile this identity? The speech act is just that, a performance. Mindfulness appears to be one pathway, creative expression is another. Jewish and Gentile alike, our species is self-similar.

Emptiness meets the metaphysics of optimism, wish-well thinking, the wellspring of creativity that begets the ah-ha moment of an action potential actualized is far from applied. Philosophy can do better. So can you. Apply yourself!

Then is the watch word to the presupposition. Prefaced with the conditional, this statement of futurity is inexorably tied to the outcome it predicts. Anything else would be either false or a failure in logic.