No I haven’t. The post defines materialism as seeking “survival, health, sex, romance, fame, power, enjoyable experiences, children, beautiful things.” You can have all of those without even living in a society that uses money.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @FioraAeterna and
The problem with “materialism” in this sense is what it excludes, not what it includes. This quote is where it goes wrong: “You might as well drop the hypocritical pretense of “higher” purposes and go for what you really want.”
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Replying to @Meaningness @FioraAeterna and
“You think you have a higher purpose but really nobody does” sounds like a flawed theory, yes, but so is “you think you have no higher purpose but really you do”
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @FioraAeterna and
So, part of the point is that this distinction between mundane and higher purposes doesn’t work well, and it’s mostly better to drop it.
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Replying to @Meaningness @FioraAeterna and
That I’m on board with. I think. Usually I think ambitious goals and everyday goals are made of similar stuff. I’ve seen some cases that make me uncertain though.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @FioraAeterna and
FWIW, I see you as unusually capable of avoiding all the purpose-related failure modes I’ve enumerated.
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Replying to @Meaningness @s_r_constantin and
This seems related to the OPhttps://medium.com/@kevinsimler/a-nihilists-guide-to-meaning-3c34de2c4acf …
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ArtirKel and
I find the *subjective sense of meaning* interesting — what makes things *feel* like a big deal? Can one engineer experiences to feel more important?
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ArtirKel and
By coincidence, I have been doing a literature review on this in the past few days!pic.twitter.com/JixeiXy2OX
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Super curious what you find!
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @Meaningness and
The way meaning-as-value and meaning-as-intelligibility meet in the empirical research is super interestinghttps://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/finding-meaning-in-imperfect-world/202003/is-meaning-in-life-based-value-or-intelligibility …
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Replying to @JakeOrthwein @s_r_constantin and
Landau has done some of the best work in this area! https://amzn.to/3aX0orG
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