The Importance Of Recognizing Unimportance

Importance in an amoral or moral sense has nothing to do with whatever brings about a pragmatic end or appeals to subjective delight.  If someone was delighted with cooking or clothing or all sorts of phenomena in the natural world, and yet he or she did not recognize or how to logical axioms and other related truths, then they have neglected and betrayed reality.  They have focused on lesser or perhaps even meaningless things instead of looking to that which cannot be anything other than intrinsically significant.  Even in the hypothetical absence of moral value, there are truths and other existents that are important, for they could not have been any other way or pertain to the most central aspects of reality.

It is thus important for the sake of knowing reality as dictated and revealed by the laws of logic to realize the importance of recognizing unimportance.  A truth which is utterly foundational as an intrinsic logical necessity, as in logical axioms, is of course far more important than anything else regardless of whether objective moral values even exist or not; this is not about nihilism, but about sheer, inherent logical truth (if anything else at all is important, so is logic, without which nothing could be true or even possible).  The issue of whether values exist, however, is also of incredible significance in its ramifications, with either there being no kind of intention or behavior that one should pursue or there being obligations one should uphold no matter the personal cost.

Whether a certain material glows in the dark or whether a person has the free time to experiment with cooking or gardening is of obvious triviality compared to these other things, and compared to many other truths and issues as well.  No one is irrational to subjectively enjoy these things, dwell on them, or live out that appreciation outwardly.  They would be irrational to think that such pursuits or aspects of reality (in this case, unverifiable parts of a perceived physical world) in any way rival the sheer amoral or moral significance of things like the laws of logic, the uncaused cause, morality, and absolute certainty wherever it can be found regarding the metaphysics of and beyond mere perception.  At best, they are secondary or tertiary or even more removed from what is most significant even as they can be deeply savored in another sense.

It might be personally fascinating that grass appears to be green and that the ocean appears to be blue.  A person might be enamored with genuinely practical or secondary aspects of reality.  Because all things have their nature and very possibility dictated by logical truths, even such matters are inevitably dependant on and connected to axioms and what follows from them.  They must be consistent with logical axioms and all other necessary truths in order to even exist, but they have none of the uttermost centrality, abstract depth, or moral value of other aforementioned parts of reality.  Practicality for the sake of practicality and almost everything about how the natural world of my sensory perceptions behaves are objectively minor or meaningless, and there are things that tower above these as neither minor nor insignificant with or without moral values to make them good.