Better Way to Be
Picking
up from last week, this post is a further explanation of the ‘turtles all around’
theory. We have described how the theory
of ‘turtles all the way down’ might be depicted: an infinitely descending tower
of ever larger turtles stacked on top of each other. This view is quite limited
and thus not sufficiently satisfying to a practicing philosopher. We can do
better.
To get
a picture of this ‘turtles all around’ theory, imagine a mountain range. Instead
of mountains composed of rocks and minerals, these mountains of this fourth-dimensional
plane (presumably where we’d find the ‘tower of turtles’) are made up of millions
upon millions of turtles. Huge expanses of valleys and hills. Each turtle has a
shell and thus an earth, if you will, mounted on top. In this realm of reptilian
dominance, the only goal is to reach the apex of a mountain: to become top turtle.
This goal
is the same for all turtles. With that in mind, one must visualize how the hierarchy
of turtles is decided. For the sake of relative simplicity, we’ll go with this:
the turtle who is able to successfully confront all obstacles and reach the
peak becomes a top turtle. Now for the next obvious question: what sort of
obstacles does a turtle have to overcome in order to climb? The answer is quite
complex. What type of obstacles do you face in your everyday life? What keeps
you from climbing?
You got
it! We are all turtles. Have you reached the top?
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