Hans-Georg Gadamer and the twelve world problems!

Interesting as a pair of brand new sunglasses you had someone right next to you, who sat on them and broke them into lovely bits of loveydoveys. So, no workies and happiness for them, not anymore! Now, they rest in sunglassheaven. Oh, that’s the irony for it!

So, Gadamer had some philosophical hermeneutics about the TWP (yes, you guessed right! Just have a look: Twelve World Problems. Yes, rightioes!). A typical Platonic-Aristotelian thinker he is. So who’s not? Lemme at ‘em numbers! Richard E. Palmer has the word at it for putting it in a bit wider perspective. I do agree in Gadamers statement of understanding Plato, as a way of working your way through the Platonic texts, but only to do it in a way that you won’t only enter the dialogues and dialectic set in those texts, but you will also need to repeat that dialogic movement in an attempt to understand.

Okay, he states – Pollution – of the air, the water, the soil. Of course, where will it end! I can’t wait to sit in my lovely car, and start a lovely pollution. I know my car loves me, and for me only, she will spit out some
carbon dioxide every now and then. And I love her for that. I love everyone who let out its and bits of a pound of carbon dioxide every day. I love them smell of it. Heck, I decide what I can do, and what I can’t do. I save world, world love me back. Isn’t that so! Flower.

His second way of thinking there are a few more problems out there. He say. Okay. Natural resources running out, or being degraded. Really? So what if there are limited resources for our lovely oil, water and dead, old wood. I so think we need some more oil around here! We like to get them pennies in our pocket, and pump out oil like drinking it out of something like a beer tap. Earth lose blood, and that’s not sad. We aim for happiness. And water? Who needs water, nonetheless! We don’t need to make more crops, just look at Simba in The Lion King. Look where it got him! Oh, happyland! I bet my car loves to feed the dead old woods some more CO2 to live it through, I say, more tree for the people, live on with the cars. Who gives a doop. Simba will manage.

Then, he states. Oh, waities. Okay, he states. Population growth outstripping resources worldwide. Is that so? So we should go back to what lovely Aristotle said in a happy time of go-lucky. A lovely man, full of systematicity. So he goes on thinking there is a chain of evolution, with beings all living and happy, who developed from the simplisestness creatures in the ocean to the simplisestness creatures walking on land. Of course, us humanicus was on the top of that chain with higher development. So, no haphazardness there, just the aim for perfection. Okay, China out. Right? Or was it something Leeuwenhoeks said, when the animaculists and ovists said? I obey Hartsoeker, truly.

So. Unequal distribution of financial resources, you say? Okay. Then stated that global poverty and hunger are increasing each year instead of decreasing. Is it? Then I say, seriously. We eat less, and that is the solution for saving the world from more hunger! Oh! The discoverness! World be saved. We share, then we are happy as Bunny Thumper.

Okay. The overwhelming power of multinational corporations over governments. I am in an “at it”-state of mind. Too bad I don’t have enough cash to show you all! If I only was smarter than my avarage shoe, I’d too own me something that feels viscous liquid, pharmaceutical companies (mmmm, I heard about some purple pills the other day …), media conglomerates (just because I can, and that’s kind of cute, just because I can), and make me some insurance companies! We don’t give a doop, as I can walk down the street and see the general public downtown smiling back at me. Gadamer, we should get married, make poverty history. I also say, do it the reflection way. Worth so much more, than even happiness for a dime. Who’d thunkz!

Nuclear weapons; the imminent danger of worldwide catastrophe, you say? Maybe, alright, it is so. So the danger is posed by an arsenal of 50,000 missiles in Russian and America s less today than 15 or 20 years ago when Jonathan Schell’s “The Fate of the Earth” saw catastrophe on the horizon and a real possibility of giving the earth back to the insects and grasses, just to quote straight out of the site. Yup, that’s fine. We don’t have a word in it, and can we change it! We use our bucks on weapons instead of social programs. The world is getting dumber, and world is put behind the weapons. Intelligence is overrated. Seriously.

And then we go straight on military means and thinking as a way of resolving political problems. In my dictionary, it states the word “war” as either “to wage or carry on warfare”, or “to be in a state of hostility or rivalry; contend”. Well, I can’t see why the word “obviating” is so frightening. We always hear about the talkies, but we never hear about the walkies. Fear is a heavy word.

World Problem number Eight is genocides in Africa, Indo-China, Tibet, Europe, North America. Again, I aim for the word fear, even as heavy as I statenessesit! Powerful, powerful, what can you say. At least, what can you do.

The ninth problem is saying something about racism, sexism, hatred of homosexuals, anti-Semitism. Again, I say fear. And fear comes in many shapes and sizes, you bet your dimes at it! We can go on with long lists of biological chatties and theories, and we can go on with our own theories. That’s fair, me thunkz. That’s what great about hermeneutics, understand it from somebody else’s point of view. Even though there are tons of definitions around the subject, so who is the one that knows anyhow?

For the tenth! Rising expectations in third world countries. What does religion have to do with everything? Liberation theology? Roman Cathaholic? Okay, fine, we all love sociology, okay, to understand poverty, right? So, where did them wars go … philosophical hermeneutics ain’t that bad after all.

Almost on the go, and we aim for fundamentalism and narrowness, exclusivism, particularism, terrorism. Is it fear? Is it happiness? What is it, really? Of course, I agreedios, that is a big problem today, and we always complain about it, but who does it? Again, we state for fear. Fear is a reflection we have in our bodies, a mechanism in a lovely way to defend ourselves. Many shapes and sizes, choose yours.

Then we finally ended up on the last of the Twelve World Problem. We survived all the way down from here. Ethnic groups clinging to land, to resources, to sacred space. So can we control the problems the Israelis and Palestinians are having towards each other? No. I believe the Israelis bear along a heavy grudge in their throat for being without a country for nearly 2000 years. UN solved one problem, but created another one. Blame the shrimps, I say. Or?

Then the big question, I say, the reinforcement will be, buy yourself a cookie when you can! So. Can earth be saved? Is it so that Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics will rescue every single individual on this planet? Or are we individuals with our own ways of thinking and judging ourselves? Do we have an answer, if we only cooperated and lived in a happy-go-lucky kind of world? Or are we signle thinkers, living in an empty room of a world without colours. Is there really a black and white world out there? Who’s that? Saying that? Even five year olds ask the simplest questions for the goings. So. I bend my knees down to a level of a five year old. Then I ask. “Why?”. Simple question, even harder unanswered answers for your simple question.

I say, greens out.