the truly tough minded


I now have very little recall of what I did this morning. This may not matter. Why should I fill my brain with thoughts of the past when the present is here. If I am to give attention to the past (or my memory of the past) or the future (or my imagination of various possible futures) then I will drift without notice through the present. How then can this particular and unnoticed present become a meaningful part of tomorrow’s yesterday? And why should it? What does it mean to be ‘in the world’? Hard-nosed-people oozing with down-to-earth common-sense may not ask these questions – they are content to live in their robustly imagined boxes. Hail intersubjectivity and the conventional wisdom of the dominant group (COWDUNG).