JA WestenbergNot one single "free thinker" who told me to "question everything" in 2020 has questioned a single thing since 2024. Turns out questioning everything meant questioning the specific things that made you feel smart at parties.
6L6GC@Daojoan actually questioning everything also requires you to question yourself, your own beliefs, and your own positions. Few will do this.
Carlos Solís@debiani386 @Daojoan Question deep enough, and you eventually land on either nihilism or absurdism. Any other position requires willingly stopping at some point and taking a position as self-evident.
Log 🪵@csolisr @Daojoan @debiani386 When you know life has no meaning, and you go on about it anyway, some people see that as a threat, because it repudiates one or more of their foundational assumptions.
And the smartest thing to do at a party is make friends with the dog.
Well of course it repudiates a foundational assumption: the expectation of rational allocation of resources. Doing things knowing full well that their end result is going to disappear, instead of not doing things to avoid the waste of energy for the exact same end result, is the definition of absurd - hence why that branch of nihilism is best known as absurdism. (Or by some recalcitrants, as "copium".)