Recently, I have been committing myself to a strict regiment of no video games and hours of solid reading. I got tired of feeling like I knew less than I should and then spending all my time playing video games instead of actually learning. Over the course of a few days I have taken advantage of Border's going bankrupt and got some moral and political philosophy as well as picking up a few books from my local used bookstore.
I have been reading a book called Justice by Michael Sandel a professor at Harvard and suddenly utilitarianism doesn't look so solid to me anymore. In fact, it looks pretty fail to me now.
I have been reading a book called Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin and suddenly I read that the Catholic church was extremely helpful to the black community in the south. Now religions don't seem so useless to me.
Now I am starting to feel like Descartes, doubting everything around me. When do I start to finally learn enough to ground myself in what is actually "reality"?
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