No matter how much you learn, there is always more to learn.
No matter how “right” you believe yourself to be, you are always wrong to some extent.
No matter how well you can draw a circle, you will never be able to draw a perfect circle.
The conclusion is that all philosophy is flawed at some degree.
No matter how well you think you understand existence, you are at some degree wrong and there is still always more to understand.
We could accurately represent these concepts in euclidean geometry as a spiral. No matter how far inwards you travel down the spiral, there is still more to go. No matter how far outwards you travel along the spiral, there is still more to go. The most you can do to satisfy your desire to “Make progress” is to not travel down the spiral but move from side to side. This creates the illusion of progress, when really our intention of finding “the ultimate meaning of life and the universe” has not been met.
Existence is traveling down a tunnel with no entrance and no exit.
Humanity is traveling down a tunnel with no well defined entrance and only a wall at the end of the tunnel.
Imagine this:
[b]You and many other people are in this giant crowded hallway and they don’t necessarily realize why they are in it. The hallway is as far as you can tell endless, as it is only dimly lit and you can not see to either end (if there even is one). So you begin to walk down the hallway. As far as anyone knows, there could be 1,000,000 people in this hallway because as soon as you walk past a group of people there is only another group of people. Eventually, a general direction of movement is put into motion, and almost everyone is walking in one direction (and if anyone is walking in a different direction, the large crowd moving in the opposite direction encourages them to change their mind and move with the crowd).
Now, you notice a man who is walking in the opposite direction of the crowd. At first, everyone around you (including yourself) thinks that the person is a moron. You all laugh, and keep walking in the same direction.
Soon, another person is walking in the opposite direction of the crowd. Shortly after that, another. Then another. Eventually you realize that there is just as many people walking in the opposite direction as there is people walking in the same direction as the original crowd. Once this happens, people whom you have been with for a long time even decide themselves that they are going to walk in the other direction. Out of mere curiosity, you continue to travel in the same direction even as the people around you turn around.
Eventually, you and a few other individuals are the only ones left from the original crowd. Everyone remaining in the crowd promises each other that they will stick together until they find out what is at the end of the hallway.
The crowd finally comes to the end of the hallway - a brick wall.
Everyone in the crowd begins crying as they come to the realization that this is why the original person was moving against the crowd.
The other people who left the crowd are now long gone in the other direction, so everyone in your group begins running back from the direction they came to catch up with the others.
When you reach the point in the hallway where you probably started in the beginning of this story, it had been so long that you had forgotten all about the wall at the end of the hallway. You are simply moving in the same direction that you have been moving in for as long as you can remember. Little do you know that both ends of this seemingly-endless hallway are closed off by brick walls.[/b]