Life is not a satisficing problem. This may be the fatal flaw in economic theorizing. Markets can only deliver satisficing conveniences. Inconvenience is priceless. The underspecified life is not worth living. Overspecification is the spice of life.
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art is more than what is strictly necessary
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For the artist though, rarely the consumer of art, hence my comment on taste being the cargo cult version Wanting to get the Mac just so = meaning making Choosing Mac over PC, not so much
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You didn't expect attachment (caring/meaning) to be connected to suffering?
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Buddhism and psychoanalysis (specifically meditation and the “talking cure” part of analysis) have always gotten this part right. Meaning is just understanding error. It thwarts all aesthetics.
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"Meaning in life is created by unnecessarily detailed preferences and unnecessarily specific ways of caring." Maybe one of the ways that I'm weird is that this isn't true of me. Or maybe I don't understand what you're saying.
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It’s not true of everyone (including me). But MOST people find meaning in ritual and repetition. Hence the insistence that Christmas be done a certain way. And the unhappiness of most of the population in the face of waning and changing traditions...
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No You SUck :)
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Just cozy up to people who over specify in a way that you appreciate. Though, you still gotta find a way to convince them to keep you around.
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There’s probably a connection there to the hyper-precise way in which rituals (most obviously religious, but think all Flag Code) are specified, likewise religious architecture like Temple details in Old Testament.
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