Mystery Maniacs
August 29, 2014 Key Concepts : Existence, Mystery, Science, Trivia ∞
Have you read any science news recently? Each time whenever some science boffins [eggheads] find something, it becomes a big news as if they have just solved another "mystery". After reading the title, you think the news should be a fascinating one because it says it has just solved a mystery! Don't get too excited too early! When you read the main part of the news carefully, you slowly discover that the many mysteries that the news claimed to have solved, is actually not a real or serious issue at all. It is just a tangential or a silly borderline trivial issue that has nothing to do with my life directly or indirectly to our society. Who cares for those silly mysteries, if they remain solved or unsolved? But somehow science is busy in solving easy mysteries or "non-mysteries-marketed-as-mysteries" for public display to keep their job alive. Science typically gives excuse for those silly mystery solving approach as the only valid way to advance our knowledge! Surprisingly, anything packaged as science, people are buying it, as in a regular consumption driven economy.
Why do both the science and the public like mystery, really? This is because people love mystery to be solved. Why do people love mystery to be solved? This is because they are hungry for knowledge. Why are they insatiably hungry for knowledge? This is because it is human's [Homo sapiens] in-built nature to solve problems. Why problem solving is human's in built nature? This is because it is useful and it gives us the pleasure of overcoming any barriers or limits, i.e. transcendence. Why human feel an urgent need for solving the mysteries? This is because their lives in itself is the greatest mystery of all right in front of their very eyes. Actually, it is so close to the eyes that, like the eyelashes, people often fail to even see it! But there is a hidden eye of your mind that still sees the constant existence of the biggest mystery and as a surrogate and inferior alternative, your mind is fascinated to solve any mystery, anywhere, however silly, especially the easy ones.
In fact, there exist, in some of the deeper part of your cognition that does not want to go to the ultimate mystery because it is afraid that it does not have the capacity to deal with it. So it makes a foil of unexplained fear so that he can easily avoid that real dilemma. Why is he afraid to go there? Because they do not have the time and courage. Why do they not have any time? Because life it short and in their opinion, it is not the best decision to invest a lot of time in that "unfruitful" toil, and they have some other "fun" or "essential things" to do. Why do they not have the courage? Because they did something unjust. What kind of unjust things they typically do? Most common is the taking or consuming more than he produced or contributed back to the system. That is the root of hidden guilt working against for having the real courage to solve the ultimate mystery of life. Instead, it keeps itself busy solving the non-significant mysteries as a cover-up. They never suspected, ever, what exactly they are missing here. They failed to recognize the nature of the greatest mystery of all!