Right now there’s some otter-footed mammal with the mouth of a giant duck and a beaver-tail laying eggs in some Australian habitat. Did I mention he’s also venomous? And that he uses some weird electroreception like a fish or bat or bee to find it’s prey? Why are there even platypi? And why is the plural name so grammatically muddled? Is it platypuses, platypi, or platypodes? Right now there’s a pseudo-taco company using Doritos as a taco shell. What’s that all about? Not to mention, there was once a dictator of this poor little country with a funny haircut who claimed to be a demigod who composed six operas, and also alleged to golf eleven holes in one in a single round of golf. Why’d that guy do that? I’m told that kangaroos can’t fart. I don’t have the wherewithal or experience to verify this, but I guess I don’t know why people would lie about it. Why can’t kangaroos fart?
There are so many many bizarre questions to be asked.
And not just the obvious ones, like why does a penguin look like he is wearing a tuxedo? Or how did a former reality star with no political experience become president of the USA? But more fundamentally, how in the hell are there even penguins? Why is there even a presidency? Why did a bunch of matter explode billions of years ago to ultimately allow for a spinning rock that produces penguins, presidencies, popcorn, pornography, pickles, platypi (woops, platypodes), popes, paupers, paper, pimps, portapoties?
What in the hell is going on here? Are there any answers?
We are thrown into the world. Poof. Just here. Puzzling over God and matter and mind. Loving puppies. Trying to cut back on cookies. Wanting people to like us. Facing grief. Watching nature documentaries on penguins. Getting upset that the pizza delivery is running late.
There have been some neat theories to explain it all. The risk we run now is not only in the methodology we choose, but that we also grow numb to the sheer cosmic strangeness of the puzzle. Because however weird this platypus is, or this dictator is, or these tacos are, or the lack of kangaroo flatulence is, the weirdest part of it all is that any of us even exist to perceive it.
0:00 What is going on?
4:30 Brief Timeline of Metaphysics
14:30 So… what is going on again?
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