The nobility of inaction

If people read your work in the morning would they be any different from the people who read your work at night?

Would their readings be different, morning from night?

If you wrote in the morning would your writing be different from the writing you wrote at night, if you wrote at night rather than in the morning?

Do all the people doing the right things make up for all the people doing wrong (or) would all the people who were going to do the right things and all the people who were going to do the wrong instead did nothing, would this make for a better world?

Action and inaction; subject and object, acc. our present understanding of the world.

Gombrowicz puts Descartes at "the beginning of modern thought," (A Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes), the beginning of modern thought being, "absolute doubt."

Not to say some thing about something is often preferable to saying many things about nothing, and often takes much greater strength. To say nothing about something is often the much more honorable and charitable thing to say.

Yet the many times that we are seeing what we can' t believe always seems to demand some response, hence the many writers, artists et.al, trying to tell us what they've seen.

The actress Helen Mirren plays the writer Ayn Rand in the movie, "The Passion of Ayn Rand," and Peter Fonda plays her husband, Frank O'Connor. Mirren throws herself into the thing completely, while Fonda looks like he can't quite believe what he's doing.