Are You Sure That Your Goals Are Proper?

If your life is wretched and miserable, one thing to think about is whether or not what you're aiming at is the right thing to be aiming at. So i'm not trying to argue for pure solypism, but it is very interesting to consider that a very large amount of what you see is dependent on what you are aiming at. Your higher orderd goals are long term, socially negotiated solutions to the problems that are implicit in your being. You know, if you're hungry, you actually move your body, say, down from the second floor into the kitchen, and you arrange things so that there's transformations in the world. That's a good way of thinking about the...