Resolving to resign to a lifetime of cognitive dissonance is a big ask. Pretty good doesn't really fly, you'd be replacing an absence of meaning with a faith co

Resolving to resign to a lifetime of cognitive dissonance is a big ask. Pretty good doesn't really fly, you'd be replacing an absence of meaning with a faith coupled with deeply-planted seeds of doubt which to me seem to be at least equally psychologically pernicious. It's also a different premise now that the context has shifted. We'd be moving from "Believe because it's the most coherent explanation we have", to "Believe only that for which there is evidence, and only for the time that there is evidence", to "Believe because it's the story we have which buries the existential dread the deepest". I'm suspicious that it would be a net win. We're at this point because many people over many years preferred to pursue a more concrete understanding of our surroundings and natural history. It might be likened to attempting to maintain a society-mandated belief in Santa Claus from birth until death because it makes for a more exciting Christmas morning.