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We squirm in perfect cages.
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I don't think anybody certainly identifiable has ever been in a situation of perfection to test this particular proposition of yours. If anybody ever has been, undoubtedly everybody around them thought they were distressingly boring and did not want to pay any attention to them.
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Like Tolkien's humans, we're travellers, never happy with the status quo.
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Yes.
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Striving for the impossible means that you'll never run out of something to work toward. Why bother doing anything if you already have everything?
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I've heard somewhere that perfection can only be experienced in an ending. Perhaps this is the reason why.
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Adam and Eve experienced perfection and were dissatisfied, defying the only law they had.
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And in that case, men were dissatisfied with perfection, and tested it.
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*Sticking self about as far out on limb as self probably should go*
One could probably argue that in this case the imperfection lay within themselves in their inability to be content rather than in their environment.
Indeed, lack of contentment seems to lead to all kinds of trouble...look at Melkor, Feanor, the Noldor in general, the Numenoreans... *drags topic back to Tolkien where it will hopefully remain*