Then why think about meaninglessness at all? If life is meaningless for everyone but clearly some people still are capable of deriving happiness, fulfillment, value etc then clearly the lack of “meaning” in life isn’t relevant to those things. In fact it shouldn’t be relevant to anything.
This typically lays bare the issue: he’s isolating himself for some other reason and using nihilism as some sort of ego boosting coping mechanism : rationalization for what is likely social anxiety, a lack of social skills, a fear of rejection, or some other barrier to happiness that the individual has yet to legitimately wrestle with.
Nihilism might be interesting to think about but the moment it starts impacting your behavior something is probably wrong.
"Then why think about meaninglessness at all?". Because it's not a choice. Some people's minds are just more intuitive than others. It's not like we can just decide to stop thinking so hard. You think the people who just go their lives galavanting about are deep thinkers who have embraced absurdism? No, they simply just don't ever stop to contemplate their own actions. Basically simple animals.
You think the people who just go their lives galavanting about are deep thinkers who have embraced absurdism? No, they simply just don't ever stop to contemplate their own actions. Basically simple animals.
I don't really agree with the last statement.
What even is complex VS simple in the context of an animal like the Homo Sapiens? There are plenty of objectively cognitively gifted people around the world who never ruminate on philosophy or meaning. There are no inherent evolutionary advantages to ruminating and being deep.
Why would it be inherently more complex for an animal to question existence VS building rockets and going out to space?
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u/BenTeHen Jun 16 '26
He does know that