How can we deal with the modern meaning crisis?

How can we deal with the modern meaning crisis?

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Be a big boy and go to Church, plenty of meaning there.

with gas chambers

By not dealing with it, the answer probably sucks anyway.

Kill all those who desire meaning. It will give the rest of us meaning in life. Having a target to kill is always a good meaning that seems to work out pretty well.

Isn't that basically what school shooters do? And in return the public finds meaning in going after these nihilistic young men.

Nah, school shooters are just pissy kids. They're not doing it for any greater reason than just to kill for revenge, like a dumb animal devoid of meaning.

Revenge is often rooted in a greater reason.

No it's not. Revenge is the reason itself. They're just pissed off and want to kill some fuckers.

Fist post best post. Jesus Christ is the Truth personified, and nobody may find meaning without believing in the truth.

I disagree. There's often a long manifesto that comes with it and they're often into philosophical ideas

pretty sure millennial angst is not caused by "not knowing the meaning of life" but rather guild of enjoying life when bad shit just keeps happening over and over.

imagine if the world was actually good? US wasn't run by a cheeto, conspiracy theories didn't bring back measles and smallpox into the world, no one can make pictures of starving children or children in cages, love and romance is so easy that everyone gets laid, etc. You think "universe is going to be destroyed in a billion years" is going to affect anyone but the REALLY cowardly?

This is so contradictory and delusional ahaha

By accepting the absuridity of existence

You want objective meaning, go join a Church or subscribe to some totalitarian and all-encompassing political/philosophical ideology. Take solace in God's plan or the Dialectic.

That sounds like you described a meaning crisis. Why are we just wandering around doing things for pleasure when there could be more meaningful things to do in the world?

Have you ever read those manifestos? They're laughable horse shit. They're just some kids that got ignored too much, so they felt like they had to write something for people to pay attention to because no one is ever going to pay attention to them again after the shooting hype dies down.

The purpose of life is finding the largest burden that you can bear and bearing it

Looking it as THE meaning of life is just limiting. It's more of a deep feeling rather than an objective truth that can be scientifically proven. I think our society just doesn't offer much meaningful things to do and that's the issue. All you can really do is consume and compete.

meaningful things require sacrifice that no one here would be brave enough to do. Imagine if the only way to stop mass shootings is to ban vidya or restrict gun-rights, they wouldn't do that. Or the only way to end the war on terror is to switch to a non-fossil fuel fuel source, the war will continue. Or the only way to prevent dictators is to force your gov't to have no influence on the international stage (most of these dics tend to use power from other nations to enforce their shit on the people), not happening.

doing meaningful things requires much, too much, so all you can do is lay there and cry about it.

Yeah i do none of this and i am still content with the chaos thanks.

Those are terrible examples of meaningful things in my opinion because they don't affect anyone's personal life. It's just some laws some politician decided in an bureaucratic political system

Attending demonstrations or becoming a politician might feel meaningful. You have to look at real activities not abstract concepts

Well OP clearly isn't okay with the chaos.

Tough because you can't do much by yourself, sure you'll get thanked by the little you do, but the world changes through outright political and economic movements. It's usually the policies that's causing a lot of the problems in today's world and since most are republics they can remove those policies but they were put there for a reason, to satisfy said people.

also "Attending demonstrations or becoming a politician" are real activities, you probably undermine them because you want to avoid responsibility of knowing your political decisions affect the world (badly)

Kek that's one of the Minecraft paintings

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no school shooters kill their bullies

>all you can really do is consume and compete

This is one of the reasons why peoplle cant find meaning, they are feed horse shit by corporations that all they need is to consume and they will find meaning, the consumerist culture is always prone to build people that cant find meaning or happyness in life.

Which might make meaning into an elimination process. Avoid what isn't meaningful and see where it leads us

You missed my point. I'm saying they are real activities but "changing laws" are not because they are abstract concepts and not experiences. Meaning is an experience

A lot of people claim to be part of political movements but they spend maybe 30 minutes a week actually being part of if in a practical way so it cannot be a source of meaning in their lives

By unironically starting to take NDErs seriously. They come back saying that the meaning of life is threefold:

(1) To do whatever want
(2) To enjoy these lives for what they are
(3) To grow in our ability to feel love, compassion, kindness, and acceptance for everyone and everything, unconditionally, no matter how hard it may very well be in this challenging world.

Life is not too serious, and it does not really matter what we do with it. But if there is any meaning at all, it is to learn to love and be truly kind on the inside.

See the life review in NDEs. It does not matter what you achieved in life in terms of society, it matters how loving you truly were. Giving to charity is irrelevant too, unless you feel love on the inside while you are doing it.

The consequences of your actions do not matter, because this world is very temporary and we are not here to save it. However, the intentions behind your actions are everything. How loving and kind are your inner intentions?

That is what is eternal, and that is what matters.

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>How can we deal with the modern meaning crisis?
have sex

Meaning died with Hitler and Stalin