Coronavirus thread. Content warning: 50/50 chance this will help vs harm. If you are comforted by sideways philosophical arguments read on. If not, I refer you the next tweet on my timeline.
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I'm still open to a thesis of 'crisis of meaning' btw, I just don't really understand that thesis currently. The closest thing I can match it with is the idea that we tend to delude ourselves on what's important in life, and our emotions at a time like this reveal that to us
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I don't understand what evidence there is that people feel emotional about coronavirus due to them 'craving meaning', as opposed to the situation being meaningful to them in a way that is partly emotional
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Meaning and emotions are always bound together. My sense is that people are deriving more meaning, and more emotions, and taking more extreme actions, than I’d expect from the event. Do you agree?
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