Fluidity addresses the atomization of culture, society, and self with ships that sail the sea of meaning: collaborative, improvised, intimate, and playful.| Meaningness
The 1960s-80s countercultures abandoned rationality because they believed it negated all meaning. They were wrong.| Meaningness
I want a God / That stays dead / Not plays dead| Vividness
Understanding why nihilism became silly may improve your attitude to life considerably.| Buddhism for Vampires
The hippie counterculture was structurally and functionally similar to the Moral Majority Christian Right counterculture a decade later.| Meaningness
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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
Modernity was built on certainty in science and mathematics. That was revealed as delusional during the early 20th century.| 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