This I don’t buy. The universe is pretty random. The challenges life throws at you have no intrinsic meaning. Unfortunately you actually have to choose when to take the easy-courageous way around, and when to take the hard-submissive way through.
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Many tragicomic paths begin with the hope that life is meaningful enough that surrendering agency and doubt is a metaphysically smart thing to do. Hence the focus on surrender and submission in all religions.
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Not that it can’t lead to brilliantly wrong metaphysics. Leibniz was a risk-taking royal-ass-kissing, solipsistic hustler, but also seemed to be genuinely religious in exactly this sense. He believed the universe was fractally optimal at every instant down to the last monad.
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Leibniz was possibly the ultimate “too clever for his own good” guy. So clever he invented calculus and computers and for an encore fooled himself into believing Spinoza was wrong with an intricately wonderful bullshit-vitalist metaphysics (monadology)
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Probably a good bit of commencement speech type advice for kids would be: pick one useless thing you’re neither going to get clever with, nor let others dictate how you pursue, and design life around reserving your peak hours for that.
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I suspect that lifestyle is why this seems indistinguishable from Newportism to you. At least in my head it feels like the polar opposite along a dimension critical to me.
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