varvaras | "Dumb & Dumber"

Perhaps the movie Dumb & Dumber has only one serious scene, luckily enough though. But in this one ‘serious’ scene (which was perhaps intented to be funny also), something special is said by the main character, played by Jim Carrey. At first he says at a certain moment: “I’m sick and tired of being a nobody” and then following this statement: “I’m sick and tired of having nobody”. What this shows, or at least can be inferred, is that the two statements are, logically but perhaps also causally, connected; for me to have value, I need somebody else, (‘to have’). The myth of self-worth as a causa prima of value in itself, is meant to disguise the dependence of the person on others mentioned above; a reasonable one of course, because it is a very unstable and dubious criterion. So, logically speaking, for a thing to have value, it always needs something else, that is able to constitute that particular value, because value is the result of a certain relation, and a relation presupposes two things already; so a thing cannot constitute it’s own value, in the same way as an effect cannot be at the same time it’s own cause; it needs another ‘value-constitutive-device’ (commonly called a ‘human being’). This is, it seems to me, a totally valid thing to say; but it has enormous implications.