If you atomize awakenings or realizations or insights into little tidbits of wisdom
- which I have no opinion on whether you should or not -
the awakening or realization or insight that words are intrinsically worthless really changes things.
A lot.
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The metamodern move is to acknowledge semiotics all the way down, but then decide to create meaning anyway in a pragmatic and inter-subjective sense.
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Much ado about noting, this.
You've got to start somewhere. A philosophical paradox is not a paralytic, any more than an autonomous drone will break down if you shout "I AM LYING" loud enough for its microphone to hear it.
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"solve all their problems" is a problematic starting assumption, for sure. But I'll tell you man, I've a lot better off now than I was 5 years ago in terms of relating to self and world.
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Of course I cannot definitively attribute mono-causality of introspective practice. Other factors are at play certainly.
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Yeah, like "getting older is awesome, until it gradually starts to suck giant donkey balls"!