The Most Important Thing

Or, of course it doesn't matter.

The latest phone from Apple's lab doesn't matter. It isn't important. There are literally people dying right now. How could a phone possibly matter?

Of course it doesn't matter. It's a phone. Nothing so trivial really matters. We shouldn't be talking about shiny new phones. We should be talking about civil rights infringements. Well, maybe we should be talking about sexism. What about all the awful diseases in the world? Then again, murder is even more important. And really, what is murder compared to war? Even war is trivial compared to genocide.

There is always, always something more important. No matter what you want to talk about, something else is more important. Well, unless you are talking about The Most Important Thing.¹ Nothing is more important than The Most Important Thing — it's right there in the name. If you are talking about anything else, you are wasting your time on the trivial and unimportant.

Except.

Do you want to live in a world where you can only express interest in one thing? One (most likely) horrible thing?

I don't.

So I talk about things that, in the big picture, don't matter. Of course they don't matter, and I like it that way.