Kitsch and naïveté | Meaningness
Eternalist kitsch is the denial of the possibility of meaninglessness. This leads to willfully idiotic sentimentality.| Meaningness
Eternalist kitsch is the denial of the possibility of meaninglessness. This leads to willfully idiotic sentimentality.| Meaningness
Hope is harmful in devaluing the present and shifting attention to imaginary futures that may never exist.| Meaningness
Privileging faith over experience is an eternalist ploy for blinding yourself to signs of nebulosity.| Meaningness
Over the past century, systems of meaning gradually disintegrated, and a series of new modes of meaningness developed.| Meaningness
What we want most from meaning is guarantees. Religions, political ideologies, and other eternalist systems promise certainty; but they cannot deliver.| Meaningness
It is attractive to think that we each have a unique, transcendent, ultimate purpose in life. Unfortunately, this belief is both false and harmful.| Meaningness
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Your post on the different stances mostly focused on ideation, regarding what goes on individually in relation to meaningness. I imagine that, for most of us, this cognitive process is habitual and out of awareness. That led me to think about the stances’ effect on behaviour, how that propels our flip-flopping from one to another - and how it might be a key to recognising our own underlying stances. This could be confusing: behaviours derived from a stance often appear to mean, and are r...| meaningness.com
