meaning crisis
Stuart Evans and
meaning crisis
The posturing of DTC brands as cults reveals an impasse. People are looking for more meaningful narratives and communities than brands can offer, and companies want to supply this “meaning demand”—but are structurally disincentivized to do so.
Toby Shorin • Life After Lifestyle
“One of the things that we’re dealing with, with the heightened states of depression and anxiety and the lack of meaning and existential angst that people experience, a lot of that is because the biological reality of being a human animal doesn’t really integrate that well with this world that we have created.” – Joe Rogan
