Everyone’s Existential Crisis
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Everyone’s Existential Crisis
What can we trust? Why is the 'information ecology' so damaged, and what would it take to make it healthy? This is a fundamental question, because without good sensemaking, we cannot even begin to act in the world. It is also a central concern in what many are calling the "meaning crisis", because what is meaningful is connected to what is real.
Daniel Schmachtenberger • The War on Sensemaking, Daniel Schmachtenberger
I like trying to find truths around the question of “why are we all here?”
And something I find interesting is the broad sense of “we don’t know where anything is going”-isms that I feel has tech people in a chokehold. The result of this is a lot of wandering about the desert, abandoning technology totally, an angst and lack of dedication to the... See more
And something I find interesting is the broad sense of “we don’t know where anything is going”-isms that I feel has tech people in a chokehold. The result of this is a lot of wandering about the desert, abandoning technology totally, an angst and lack of dedication to the... See more
the decentering of human life from its cosmic significance, a decline in our sense of purpose, and a sensation of having lost the soul that gave earlier human societies their adaptiveness and vitality. It seems we are left with a feeling of having lost our place in the world along with a sense of who we are and what we ought to do with ourselves.
John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, • Awakening From the Meaning Crisis
when you create a social reality with no connection to a deeper divine essence, and not alignment to a value greater than itself, you get lost in a maze where essential human values and relationships are mimicked endlessly and blindly in a chaos of hollow repetition. Then, as now, the only way out is to connect to the sacred; to an experience that... See more
Alexander Beiner • Myth and Metrics: How Social Media Robs Us of Ritual, and How to Revive It
Existential ideas and attitudes have embedded themselves so deeply into modern culture that we hardly think of them as existentialist at all. People (at least in relatively prosperous countries where more urgent needs don’t intervene) talk about anxiety, dishonesty and the fear of commitment. They worry about being in bad faith, even if they don’t
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