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>>14925201
I’m not sure how this book has given anyone an existential crisis. But I dealt with mine in two phases. My personal crises hung around me while a simple agnostic. Shopping around for something to believe in, I was mostly just trying to “make it” in the capitalist world and so made poor progress.
When you acknowledge your insignificance, you’re set free. Not even admitting to any level of Determinism dampens this sense of freedom for me. The eyes in the sky banished, I accepted me as my own savior. Later still I started to crunch on some of these numbers environmentalists where putting out and accepted the real chance that my species would end relatively soon if we didn’t do something.
So what’s this question about the meaninglessness to life? There’s a giant monster to slay, you sluggards. The following months are going to wound it some!