Philosophy of Saturation
Saturation means “thoroughly full”, and I tend to think of it whenever I think of the enormous amount of literature now available to every person on earth. And now there is the internet and blogs.. we are saturated with information. So I sort of despair over having a blog here or trying to publish things at all. Both for the fact that what I write here will not be read or will not be useful (judging by the lack of comments) and the fact that what I have to say here has likely already been said better elsewhere.
For instance, my current point is likely buried in Thoreau’s Walden, where he says the true philosopher hates the news.. that basically the world has become so saturated and complicated that we should go back to basics. And that’s what he did. So not only did he say what I want to say here, and say it better, but he actually LIVED it, and this was now over 100 years ago.
There is nothing new under the sun.