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
Wrong ideas about meaning come in mirror-image pairs, which fixate and deny opposite aspects of reality.| Meaningness
Materialism says that only mundane purposes like money, sex, and power count. It wrongly rejects higher purposes—but those too are not ultimate.| Meaningness
Ploys—ways of thinking, feeling, talking, and acting—which stabilize eternalism; and antidotes to use against them.| 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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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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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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Nihilism promises you don’t have to care, because nothing means anything. But you do care—and you can’t escape that.| Meaningness
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
