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Ah yes, the search for meaning filtered through individual transactional fulfillment. The perennial, monotonous discussion about “what gives us meaning” has be
by AndrewKemendo 1y ago
Ah yes, the search for meaning filtered through individual transactional fulfillment.
The perennial, monotonous discussion about “what gives us meaning” has been so exhausted at this point as to be rendered meaningless.
You can safely ignore anyone that has philosophical musings that are temporal in context.
- datameta 1y agoI'm struggling to extract meaning or message from your last sentence.
- AndrewKemendo 1y agoStated simply: Ignore any philosophy or ideology that fails at universal-infinite timescales Basically if someone is using the “current” state of the world as the comparative model for existential fulfillment then it’s not even a model, it’s a conclusion based on a point sample In the case of this article, “Everyone should learn to code” was never correct and nor is “everyone should learn a craft” It fundamentally overfits a narrow, highly available novel concept, rooted in the epistemology of “individual fulfillment” in the context of the current state of the world Therefore in the implied context of the existential question “what should I do with my life?” , which is something that has been asked in every period that humans and proto-humans have lived, it’s totally ignorant to think that we can reduce it to the intersection of global transactions and individual contributions to such.
- datameta 1y agoI see what you are saying, thanks for going into it. I agree that recency bias leads to adopting frameworks that are a poor overall fit for explaining ongoing (for the foreseeabel future) phenomena.