There seem to be a great number of social media posts recently on the subject of the meaninglessness of our lives. Some point to what they believe to be an absurd cycle of “eat, work, be entertained, sleep” that repeats itself endlessly until we become infirmed and ultimately die.
Personally, I see nothing absurd about any of this. Sure, our lives have no external meaning; it’s up to us to confer meaning to our existences by the choices we make. I used to say that I was put on Earth to solve corporate marketing challenges, the same way doctors are here to cure disease and cops are here to fight crime.
Also, this strikes me as a “first world problem.” Think for a moment how few people living in areas that are war-torn, impoverished, disease-ridden, or ruled by cruel tyrants, who have the bandwidth to concern themselves with the meaning of life and to bemoan its monotony.
I’m here for the same reason that any of us are: my parents had sex, and that’s essentially all that any of us can say, whether the pregnancy was planned or accidental. From there, it’s up to each one of us as individuals to make our way through the world.
There’s nothing about this that makes our lives absurd.
Here’s another reminder of how far to the extreme low brow right the American conservative movement has swung.
The only political experience Mike Lindell has comes from his having eagerly accepted Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was rigged with massive voter fraud, for which there is exactly zero evidence.
As a consequence, Lindell is facing multiple lawsuits, including a June 2025 verdict ordering him to pay $2.3 million to a former Dominion Voting Systems employee for defamation. He also faces lawsuits from Smartmatic for defamation and a suit over a $3 million unpaid loan.
That’s it, folks. No experiencing running a small town in Alabama, let alone a state full of well-educated progressives in which Trump lost to Kamala Harris by a full 4% in 2024.
Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) Endorses Mike Lindell
My advice to David:
I doubt this misleading crap is going to work in Dallas County, where voters are relatively well educated and sophisticated.
You’ll need to some place full of real bumpkins, which, in Texas, shouldn’t be too great a challenge.
Some may find the claim at left compelling.
But consider Japan, China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland that are almost completely atheist. The other nations in Western Europe have also steadily moved away from religion.
Have they “lost their countries,” or is this a present-day scare tactic directed by fear-mongers, just as it has been since the Dark Ages?
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