The Light... it burns!

Throughout this text, Pangloss insists time and time again that he is living in the 'best of all possible worlds'. While Voltaire takes Pangloss' beliefs to the extreme in saying things like: this lake was created for Jacques to drown in, I feel that the optimistic view of our existence isn't that far-fetched. Saying that we live in the best of all possible worlds is incorrect, because it's possible for a world to be more perfect than ours (i.e. Heaven). However, I think that the earth was more perfect at it's creation than it is currently. As Candide suggests in chapter four, humans are corrupting nature, making the world less perfect.  I'm not entirely certain if we're corrupting 'nature' as much as we are corrupting ourselves, but one thing is for sure: there's corruption going on.

Now, going back to the best of all possible worlds thing, if we change 'possible' to 'known' (omitting heaven of course), we do live in the best of all known worlds. To our knowledge, whether scientifically or biblically speaking, we're living in the only world that can sustain life. The only world in which humans exist. Therefore, we must be living in the best of all 'known' worlds. While it would be possible to have a better world without sickness, pain or corruption, there isn't one that we know of.

I apologize for not being as funny as I usually am. I've been in bed all day with a splitting headache, and I'm trying to look at the screen as little as possible. (sensitivity to light is not fun.)

Tune in next week when I will hopefully have something funny AND meaningful to say.
P.S. I commented on Jamie's