Schopenhauer's Telescope
(Gerard Donovan)
Observe the world since a telescope.
Two men, a baker and a teacher, they walk for a field sheltered by the snow, during a cold winter day on the land of a European country. To the bottom of the scene, that would be able to seem idyllic, shouts and echoes are mixed with a feeling of pain and desperation. One of them obliged to dig a hole while the other watches that this comply the work. Both they know that the destiny will carry them low land, but not when neither where.
The Irish writer counts us as two neighbors of a same town can arrive to this crossroads of pain and death. The roads of the destiny and of the men have carried them to a place where none of the two would want to be. Now they would prefer to be in their homes, thinking about what have dinner that night, embracing their woman, reading some book forgot in the second bookcase or being fixed to be going to have dinner with their friends.
We will know the history of the murderous Gengis Khan, the despotism of the Belgian King Leopoldo in the Congo, the philosophy of the book ?The art of the war? of the Chinese general Sun or the war cry of the warlike Sioux during the dance of battle; ?besides, already I have lived sufficient.? Not greater statement of value exists that to be played the life in the country of battle.
Schopenhauer recommends us to see the things since a telescope, situated in the distance of the time or in the distance. We should analyze our actions since the future or since the present, but in another place. We would try to imagine as they would perceive our acts if we possessing a distant and impersonal point of view in the time. How they will judge us since the future or what think those other, the ones that surround us, of what we are doing now. We analyze with other eyes what only they perceive now, we decide, the success or the lack only will be our responsibility.
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