/lit/ - Literature

>>9230924
Yes, you can know that you can't know anything for certain. Which, if you reflect on it, is actually a potentially uplifting thought, since it will prevent you from being either

a) trapped in a cognitive prison of someone else's making, or
b) trapped in a cognitive prison of your own making.

The desire to know things for certain, to Produce Truth But No For Real This Time is something us meatbags do, but just because we really really want it doesn't mean it's so.

There's a difference, a slight but important one, in saying that things are relative and saying, things are relative, *therefore x.* Personally, learning to resist the urge to impose semse and meaning on the world has been a cool discovery. It's fun invoking the emergency powers and all that but - again - how/why/when?