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.
Can’t swear that this is true but hoping so.
We must never forget.
The more visibility and the more frequent reminders we can get on this catastrophe in U.S. history the better.
It’s almost funny when we hear that California is a socialist state, or a police state (due to our environmental restrictions), or that people are leaving in droves to go to Texas or Florida. When I come across people who say this, I wonder: have you ever actually been to California?
Do you know that the garden-variety 3 BR, 2 BA house here lists at about $1.2 million, where, if it were moved to, say, the Midwest, it would be worth perhaps $2500,000? Why do you think that could possibly be? Maybe the law of supply and demand doesn’t apply to the Marxist part of the nation?
Perhaps it’s because Californians are offered fantastic economic opportunities. We develop and implement ideas that improve the lives of everyone on Earth, and that we profit greatly from our undertakings.
Something for the MAGA crowd to consider.
The main way governments create wealth is by educating people so that they can become productive members of society. They also build roads and airports and maintain law and order so that honest businesses can thrive.
Anyone living now who believes that Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are creating wealth for anyone but themselves is a total fool.
A ton of people bought into the concept expressed here in the mid-20th Century, but no semi-intelligent person today believes that tax breaks for billionaires/trillionaires generates a nickel for the common person.
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