Modern life is meaningless. That is, there is nothing left to be done. Our cause as living beings, human beings, modern beings, is complete. The only thing left to do now is watch the world fall apart so that a new one, young and bursting with meaning and potential can grow.
What is the thread that connects our lives together into a coherent whole? We are modern men working away in a dead society. An organ pumping in a dead body. A cell in a non-functional organ. A molecule bouncing around in a dead cell.
The refrain is, we create our own meaning. But you can no more create your own meaning, than a biochemical molecule can create its own purpose. The history of all culture surrounds us, and creates the shape within which we exist. There is no escape and the void is not a template for infinite shapes.
>>25048022
who are your favorite authors?
>>25048022
are you literally 12 years old?
>The only thing left to do now is watch the world fall apart so that a new one, young and bursting with meaning and potential can grow
Hopefully the next run won't fail itself
How much longer do you think we have?
>>25048022
we still haven't cured cancer
we still haven't expanded into the solar system
we still haven't created artificial intelligence to carry on long after we die
we still haven't figured out how to produce telomerase
>>25048048
Drive away the evil spirits with shouts and incantations
>>25048022
What is the point in writing something to tell me that there is no point? it kind of sounds like you're trying to make a point.
But no, that would be silly since there's no point.If there is no meaning for you, then just kill yourself.
>>25048115
>wanting to produce telomerase
are you some kind of sadomasochist?
I agree, let's become terrorists.
>>25048072
A culture exists with a purpose. As it resolves that purpose, it falls apart. These are not always fall of Rome scenarios. They are merely restructurings and redefinition of purpose.
>>25048022
when was life meaningful?
What was the cause that humans have completed?
>>25048146
Your "logic" is wafer thin nonsense. Would you really confuse 5 minutes spent writing something down, with a meaning that gives shape and purpose to an entire lifetime?
Of course not. You're merely dancing around the fire, warding off the evil eye. The modern man is not so smart. Only arrogant.
>>25048201
Nice try FBI.Adding unique text so that the post can go on doing its thing.
>>25048172
ending aging ends the need to worry about an afterlife
heaven will be created here in a post scarcity economy
>>25048437
If everyone was immortal in a few years you'd end up with 20 billion of these things shitting up every corner of the world.
>>25048276
Life had complete meaning when we were as we should be, a part of the natural world. The substance of our lives was perfectly aligned with our biology and psychology. Every single action we would take had perfect consonance with this meaning. I'm not merely talking about survival, I', talking about all the things that we have been equipped for. bonding with a small close group of well known people, seeking a mate, hunting, providing for the tribe mates.
The "cause" was exactly what our biology and psychology had laid out for us. These natural impulses were designed through natural selection in equilibrium with their natural scarcity. Our cause has been to eliminate this scarcity, and we have done so. Without the scarcity, we are also without meaning.
>>25048048
Nice argument you fuckboi
>>25048040
I mostly read non-fiction. A lot of neuroscience, and things written by people who has transcended their discipline.
>>25048437
>post scarcity economy
and how do you plan on accomplishing that?
>>25048115
We all die with out equations unbalanced and riddles unsolved. Culture too
It's the metaphorical price we pay for the fire we've received. There's still a lot of possibilities out there, though. Go create a garden (literally and figuratively) and tend to it.
>>25048320
>>25048517
Excuse me, why are you posting when everything is meaningless? To attempt to affirm anything further you are going against your original statements.
>>25048517
We are in the natural world, only a human and geometrically-focused interpretation of it. The things you list are all still possible, albeit within this humanistic interpretation of nature. The issue I'm seeing here is that you probably have a lack of belonging to one and project that onto the rest of the world. You're too busy caring about your own perspective and that cheering crowd in your head telling you to post more drivel, when others are perfectly complacent and find plenty of meaning.
No-one is stopping you from attaining any of the things you listed.
Stop denying and placing the issues in your posts and start writing a solution, because this denying of everything helps no-one.
>>25048635
Too true, the world is crazy different for some niggas. There's 7 billion different perspectives out there.
>>25048635
Thanks for the post.
The thing is, I have the things I've listed. I maintain them because they do provide me some sort of meaning, grounding, purpose in my normal life. But when I'm alone, the creeping thought returns from the back of my mind. Why bother? All these things I produce and acquire, could go unacquired and unproduced. What is the shape of the space I occupy, and does this shape have purpose in the larger structure? No.
So I guess the essence of what I'm talking about, is the disposability of the modern human being. Modern life has made the human disposable.
>babbys first existential epiphany
>>25048882
Human life has always been disposable quit being a bitch about it. It should be comforting, no matter how bad you fuck up it doesn't matter. Hedonism is the only way
>>25048897
These dubs are the only thing that matter.
>>25048022
>you can no more create your own meaning
yes you can you lazy faggot
>>25048517
You seemed to be confused desu
>things should be a certain way
>nothing objectively matters
seems pretty contradictory to me
>>25048882
Thanks for civility, I have wanted these threads on r9k for a while.
I have to go to bed, but it sounds like you are placing the meaning and importance of things on people that are here after, or here regardless, of your existence. I suppose you cannot place meaning on a period of nonexistence after death, but the future, in a sense, does not exist but only has the potential for existence, and it is the immediate experience that is the acquisition of meaning. One would just have to determine which is more important to them: the immediate experience, or the future without them.
I know that mine is the immediate, so I find plenty of pleasure in the things I do and create. As for being disposable, if your existence is to provide for tribe mates as you have listed, that's a "selfless" existence that begets meaning derived from an external need or source. The internal, individual, and immediate source, I believe, would remedy it.
People come out with this shit, then scoff when you tell them its simply because the progressive stage of capitalist development ended in 1914.
The new, young and 'meaningful' - if you want to call direction that - society is a socialist one.
