The Best of All Possible Worlds To be ourselves while the world attempts, To turn us all into someone totally different, Is among the highest, of possible attainments! Is among the greatest of possible achievements! I promise myself this, that, and all the other things! Nobody could ever possibly hope to do me better! The best of all possible worlds, is to know myself! To know me is to know the true depths of the soul! To know me is to know the secrets of the universe! To know me is to know, what life is really all about! To know me is to know the true depths of the heart! To know me is to love me is to know me even better! To know me is to know, everything that’s important! The many narcissists amongst us are simply jealous! To know me is discover genuinely divine inspiration! To know me is to know, greater contentment and joy! To know me is to soar upon the wings of imagination! Thus open minds and hearts are all prepared to empty! Embracing bullshit we embrace our own shortcomings! Rejecting bullshit our brains don’t all spill on the floor! Upon bumbling across, the accidental discovery of Q.M. The physicist Max Planck, begged those with experience, To explain the joke, complaining, that a sense of humor, Was not on his list, of more essential job requirements! Whilst for decades, a favorite topic, at cocktail parties, Was how to design experiments to discourage jokers! Wannabe comedians may become a serious problem! Within the hallowed halls, of the esteemed sciences! When merely endeavoring, to earn an honest living. When living is as easy, as taking your next breath! When the vast majority are satisfied just to exist! When living is dancing, as if nobody is watching! When living is singing as if nobody even listens! Wisely knowing, heaven is what you make of it! When the best of all possibles worlds is within, When our dreams are the source of nightmares! When our nightmares are the source of dreams! When we labor to step, in the same river twice! When there isn’t anyone home but us chickens! When attacking the incomprehensible is futile! When, what all hold dearest, abides within us! When a miracle to believe in, abides within us! When life so clearly demands a sense of humor! When nothing from nothing remains something! When nothing from something, remains nothing! When ya gotta have something in order to dance! When the best of all possible worlds springs forth, Whenever we no longer make clear-cut distinctions, Between who we are and whoever we wish to become. To see a world in a grain of sand, heaven in a wildflower, Requires we embrace, the best of all possible worlds within, Accepting that reaching out is how we discover who we really are. At last, finding the humility to love ourselves and each other properly, (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oscar Wild, William Purkey)
The best of all possible worlds was an argument that Leibnitz used for promoting his more classical Greek pantheistic views, and this poem mentions Heraclitus as well, who famously said its impossible to step in the same river twice. Here, I'm turning Leibnitz's argument on its head, by assuming 42 is as good an explanation as anyone is ever going to get, and the best of all possible worlds depends on who you ask. It redefines what are known as the "Laws of Thought" and the laws of physics as well, using simple humorous arguments. Some call what I do "armchair philosophy" because academics get paid to spout bullshit in unison. What I do is actually known as "Natural Philosophy", which academia and society largely rejected with the discovery of Newtonian Mechanics.
