The 1960s-80s countercultures abandoned rationality because they believed it negated all meaning. They were wrong.| Meaningness
Monism and dualism both offer concepts of the supposed true self as a coherent entity.| Meaningness
Available ethical theories are either eternalist or nihilist; both are useless. We must recognize that ethics are both nebulous and meaningful.| Meaningness
Finding the specifics of life unacceptable motivates the escapist fantasy of monism: the stance that All is One, denying diversity.| Meaningness
Great confusions about meaningness stem from the mistaken assumption that there must be some sort of eternal ordering principle.| Meaningness
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Ultimate is a word that can be legitimately used in discussions of meaning. Often, though, it is advertising hype, or a weasel-word.| Meaningness
People think they approach meaning in terms of religions or philosophies, but in practice, "stances" matter more.| Meaningness
Over the past century, systems of meaning gradually disintegrated, and a series of new modes of meaningness developed.| Meaningness
The culture war, political polarization, Baby Boomer bafflement: the unending zombie slugfest pairing the two countercultures of the 1960s-80s.| Meaningness
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Systems of society, culture, and the self were the foundation of the modern world. Their glories have passed.| Meaningness
By “ethics,” in quotes, I mean talk about ethics, rather than what people actually do. This page explains “ethics” as signaling: personal advertisement. We all display “ethicalness” as a strategy for looking like attractive mates and coworkers, by signaling class status, tribal loyalty, and superior personality traits.| Vividness
