Notes from a Sidecar by John Dale

Author:John Dale [Dale, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781412236355
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Published: 2005-12-20T05:00:00+00:00

Start at the top! Instead of arguing from certain basic accepted principle, we have a loose arrangements of ideas floating at the top and by various connections we come towards the bottom with a certain extension of ideas but by no means approaching any point of understanding or universal principle. We do not come closer to answers, but we may have we have richer propositions. There is no answer to everything even if the String Theorists disagree. Piaget felt we approached an endpoint; I disagree and think we go from loose observations to a certain universality but no endpoint. Things just start to seem to make more sense. There is no absolute conclusion to philosophy, it just goes on and on, with all neophytes pondering anew the “existence” of tables or the invisible pink hippopotamus in the corner of the room!

The basic self prior to any analysis would be like a young child just accepting an object and the “outside” world as his imagination permits. We continue to try and make sense of the morass of sensory input and then we analyze the analysed, yet somehow we have muddled through to complex mathematics, very complex science with predictions of great accuracy. We have achieved space travel through the interpretation of “reality”. Schopenhauer also disdained this academic conceptual level. He, like Wittgenstein, spoke of throwing away the ladder after climbing higher. But we know better. We just launch beyond that point with faith in our abilities to see further. We paint beyond that point, we compose music, and we write poetry and yes, even some philosophy! We take up the new challenge of verbalizing non-verbal philosophy.

When we left 100 Mile House on that particular trip we took a trip through some forest fire zones:

Sept 2003: We head out of 100 Mile House on a cool Monday morning and drive out to the Interlakes junction. After hitting the wonderfully efficient “Cariboo Tar Strips”, inscribed in the road at 4’ intervals to prevent frost heaves but guaranteed to wreck most vehicles before the heaves would, we arrive at the MacDonald summit at 4300’ and back to about 50C. Immediately before that we passed the lovely Lac Des Roches now about to be invaded by a real estate development. There are plans for a gaudy subdivision to share the wonderful view of Lac Des Roches, i.e. to destroy the wonderful view forever. We wind down the 10 Km mountain road to Little Fort and then to the junction of Highway 24 and Highway 5. From here we head on towards Barriere and see for ourselves, in daylight, the evidence of the destruction with this season’s fires. The valley south to Barriere is wide and lush and a great vista to sweep down in a sidecar rig.

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