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We cultivate indifference as a cocoon. We make irony a habit because the safety of maintaining a knowing distance works as a defense. If you can’t find what matters, conclude that nothing matters. If the hunger for home is always and only frustrated, decide “the road is life.”
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
It was called existentialism. It argued—put roughly—that life’s only meaning is the one we bring to it, that its purpose is for us to determine, each for ourselves. And most importantly, it argued that in this absurd universe without purpose, meaning, or objective morality, in a world where nothing matters, the only principled alternative to suicid
... See moreAndrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
In this age of horrible news all the time, we understand it instantly: ironic suicidal ideation. But there’s something real behind it—the fantasy of the swift death, the instinct to just get it over with.
Elisa Gabbert • The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
**Note:** Scarcity mindsetThis structural imperative is coupled with the cultural assumption that “our life will be better if we manage to bring more world within our reach: this is the mantra of modern life, unspoken but relentlessly reiterated and reified in our actions and behavior.” According to Rosa the “categorical imperative of late modernit... See more