“Could there be anything more demoralizing than having to wake up in the morning five out of 7 days of one’s adult life to perform a task that one secretly believed did not need to be performed—that was simply a waste of time or resources, or that even made the world worse?.” This was asked by the anthropologist David Graeber a few years ago in a... See more

“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.” writes Blaise Pascal in his Pensées (1670).