Obstacles to the complete stance | Meaningness
Meaning and meaninglessness, pattern and nebulosity all obviously exist—yet we resist recognizing and admitting this. Why?| Meaningness
Meaning and meaninglessness, pattern and nebulosity all obviously exist—yet we resist recognizing and admitting this. Why?| Meaningness
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The 1960s-80s countercultures abandoned rationality because they believed it negated all meaning. They were wrong.| Meaningness
Rationalism responds to its failures, in the face of nebulosity, by making more complicated formal theories.| Meta-rationality
A positive and realistic vision for the future of society, culture, and self, drawing lessons from recent history.| Meaningness
Over the past century, systems of meaning gradually disintegrated, and a series of new modes of meaningness developed.| Meaningness
Open-ended curiosity gives you the freedom to interact with the world without metaphysical presuppositions.| 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
Defining the subject matter: rationality, rationalism, reasonableness, and meta-rationality.| Meta-rationality
Systems of society, culture, and the self were the foundation of the modern world. Their glories have passed.| Meaningness
Reconfiguring categories, properties, and relationships is a meta-rational skill—key in scientific revolutions.| Meta-rationality
Explore the ideas of Meaningness in greater depth by reading the books that inspired it| Meaningness
Modernity was built on certainty in science and mathematics. That was revealed as delusional during the early 20th century.| Meaningness
The rationalist theory of justified action leads to nihilism. Understand your activity as a vivid, variegated landscape instead.| Meaningness
Meanings come and go; they are not eternally stable—and that is fine.| Meaningness
Recognizing meaninglessness requires unusual intelligence, courage, and toughness. Nihilist elitism renders you stupid, cowardly, and helpless, though.| Meaningness
Nihilism promises you don’t have to care, because nothing means anything. But you do care—and you can’t escape that.| Meaningness
Are you adult enough to accept that the world offers no absolute guarantees?| Meaningness
It's natural to react to meta-rationalism with skepticism or hostility initially. You may come to delight in it.| Meta-rationality
The Guru Papers brilliantly illuminates fallacies of contemporary spirituality, and also the toxic power dynamics of authoritarian control.| Meaningness
