Monday, 30 March 2026

Seeing sense in its own death is rationalization

 Coping with its own death is one of the biggest problems. It is one the biggest values of religion. It was a big argument for fascism, where you continue to exist as part of the bigger collective. Recently, I noticed that more and more people state that death is the giver of meaning of sense for live. This sounds like the ultimate rationalization. Since we killed god, we carry the burden of finding sense in live and justifying suffering. Right after we killed him, we tried things lice fascism where the sense is the nation and the suffering is the means to an end. It failed horribly. We still have no answer. Rationalizing death as the giver of sense achieves two things at once. Coping with death and finding sense. I can not see which sense, but this is another story. But I don't see how this would work. If you have so much sense, why not die next week? It gives you the ultimate sense in live. Death is too near? So you want to not die. Just ask the same question next week. Either you want to never die or your live and sense in live fades away so slowly that you just want to die. Where is the sense there? Like with religion, seeing sense in death may be a useful illusion, but it is an invented story we tell ourself. It would be better not to waste time with self illusions and take the won energy to figure out a sense in live and just go with that.

No comments:

Post a Comment

The times 4 5 hundred rule: Calculate private required capital goals fast

 Assume you get 7% capital gain and 3.5 % inflation and 25% tax. Then calculate you required capital with the factor of 38 (1 / (0.07-0.035)...