I am sorry. I must word my argument/question very badly because we are drifting away from my gripe with the article. Perhaps I’ll just close with explaining how I experience life:
Life just is.
Life just tries to keep alive.
To keep alive, humans (and other animals) feel good/bad in certain situations.
To me, nowhere in this, there is anything important, useful or goal-centric.
Since we are aware, cognitive beings, we struggle with reconciling our survival-instinct with the fact it is all pointless. So we invent things like cricket, money, importance, life purpose and whatnot.
Personally I think/believe it would be much better if we all just found comfort in the fact we are all useless and we are all struggling with the cognitive dissonance and we are all in the same pickle and help each other deal with it. rather than trying to find solace in external things, or worse; constructs like ‘importance’ . These may help at times, but they should never be elevated to the status of ’truth/solution/whatever). They are just things we do to kill the time, preferably in a pleasant way. That doesn’t make it important. It is just the way it functions.
Then again. Perhaps I just think and feel like this because I have Dysthymia.
I’ll conclude here the same as below in my other reply: Life is objectively without purpose afawk. The rational thing to do is accept that. To invent subjective purposes is to deny the objective truth. that’s all I am proposing.
I am sorry. I must word my argument/question very badly because we are drifting away from my gripe with the article. Perhaps I’ll just close with explaining how I experience life:
Life just is. Life just tries to keep alive. To keep alive, humans (and other animals) feel good/bad in certain situations.
To me, nowhere in this, there is anything important, useful or goal-centric. Since we are aware, cognitive beings, we struggle with reconciling our survival-instinct with the fact it is all pointless. So we invent things like cricket, money, importance, life purpose and whatnot.
Personally I think/believe it would be much better if we all just found comfort in the fact we are all useless and we are all struggling with the cognitive dissonance and we are all in the same pickle and help each other deal with it. rather than trying to find solace in external things, or worse; constructs like ‘importance’ . These may help at times, but they should never be elevated to the status of ’truth/solution/whatever). They are just things we do to kill the time, preferably in a pleasant way. That doesn’t make it important. It is just the way it functions.
Then again. Perhaps I just think and feel like this because I have Dysthymia.
I’ll conclude here the same as below in my other reply: Life is objectively without purpose afawk. The rational thing to do is accept that. To invent subjective purposes is to deny the objective truth. that’s all I am proposing.