Closeness is the operating drive, but it’s not the operating telos. The drive is towards some sort of state or feeling—of relating, standing shoulder-to-shoulder looking out at the world, standing back-to-back defending against the world; of knowing each other, of seeing the same things, of making the same meaning; of integrated seeing / thinking. But the telos is tikkun olam (repairing/correcting/reforming the world)--you can’t do that without a shared idea of better.
As an analogy, curiosity is a drive, which is towards confusion, revelation, analogy, memory; but the telos is truth and skill.
In your example, I would say that someone could be struggling with “moral responsibility” while also doing a bunch of research or taking a bunch of action to fix what needs to be fixed; or they could be struggling with “moral responsibility” while eating snacks and playing video games. Vibes are signals and signals are cheap and hacked.
Closeness is the operating drive, but it’s not the operating telos. The drive is towards some sort of state or feeling—of relating, standing shoulder-to-shoulder looking out at the world, standing back-to-back defending against the world; of knowing each other, of seeing the same things, of making the same meaning; of integrated seeing / thinking. But the telos is tikkun olam (repairing/correcting/reforming the world)--you can’t do that without a shared idea of better.
As an analogy, curiosity is a drive, which is towards confusion, revelation, analogy, memory; but the telos is truth and skill.
In your example, I would say that someone could be struggling with “moral responsibility” while also doing a bunch of research or taking a bunch of action to fix what needs to be fixed; or they could be struggling with “moral responsibility” while eating snacks and playing video games. Vibes are signals and signals are cheap and hacked.