Have you read any Schopenhauer? His whole philosophy is predicated on this idea of an overarching Will behind reality that we are manifestations of. W...
Nice summation of Marx concept of alienation. I agree we are atomized. Bringing this idea to production itself- we are an infintesimally small part of...
They are lacking an awareness of the products they use. The answer- there is none. We are just tiny recipients of billions of transactions of labor an...
The repetitively absurd tasks of existing at all. Round and round we go. Just doing stuff. Your solutions are not off from the norm: projects and comm...
Absolutely not. Pessimism is about assessing the reality of the situation and understanding what is going on at a fundamental level. Nihilism is used ...
These are exactly the social relations and values that I am questioning. Perhaps @"Bitter Crank" can add some force to this. BC, do you think these pu...
I guess like most things I write about, this is more an existential and social questioning exercise. Let's look at two issues. 1) Existential- the see...
You run into problems like in the health care field which requires complex biochemical solutions, technology, and the like. Eat some turnips and the l...
How about the relation to work itself? I guess here's my problem. The assumption is that everyone has some instrumental value in "contributing" their ...
Oh, that is an interesting way to frame the situation. Do you want to elaborate a little about authentic decisions to commit to projects being reactio...
So what would radically change our situation, en masse? I am hoping the answer won't be the same old REVOLUTION. Besides which, the slow yawning angui...
Well, that is an interesting part of our human experience that no other animal seems to share- a perpetual ability to understand itself qua itself. We...
Yes, there's the fire and fury! :grin: But, well, let me "loop you in" to @"Caldwell"'s comments as I think this question can pertain to both. Do you ...
You are taking that a wee bit too literally or you are using really really dry humor. Either way, I don't think it is organic in how you are using it....
You mean most federal bureaucracies? Ah I see, it has to be this way because it is this way. By adding the word "organic" does that give more import t...
That is a good one. Acceptance just means lack of imagination, no? Isn't it a self-sustaining system if you don't try to change aspects of it that you...
Yes, like many workers who don't stop to think about their position or how their day is taken up. How much are we missing with our current model of th...
This is a tepid condemnation- I was hoping for fire and fury. If we go all Hegelian- development and synthesis of old into new, seem to be the point o...
Well, animals seem to not have this problem of self-awareness. Either do machines. Another problem would be that people would rather not be either of ...
Again, another inspired post, thank you. So is this good or bad? Does new mean better? Your implication is no. Why not? New technologies were created ...
I know that one first hand.. tables upon tables.. all work together intricately.. you never know how one table might affect another with a bit of chan...
Is it a change in how products and services are distributed? Is it a change in what we value? Is it a change in relations? Is it a change in how we th...
That's funny actually.. any product types in particular? I've had TVs with shitty speakers and hard drives that break real easily, but I'm not sure if...
Well, you bring up the problem of large populations- this adds to alienation. Think about how many people made the goods and services, the complicated...
I really like how you framed the problem there. Going back to how technology replaces meaning- what do you think humans' relationship with technology ...
Also, this all just speaks to the absurd futility of things. I just think of how happy Ford and the Dodge brothers were and other early car makers, an...
This is true. I still see the problem of work is more related to what Durkheim might call anomie, or perhaps more pointedly, what Marx called alienati...
What's funny is communism tried to solve the problem of work by changing society itself. It is a very American idea that it is YOU who has to change, ...
Granted, but I am not proposing that we make everything ourselves either. Yes, but I also think it is self-driven too. We "take on" these slogans so a...
Most people would say that life is worth living based on how consumed they are by projects that they initiate themselves minus (-) the external pains,...
Granted, I should have been more explicit with how I was using the term. Again, I agree it should have been more explicit. Well-stated. Also, I think ...
What is this flourishing you speak of? It sounds a bit... Romantic! :D Also, flourishing is not permanent- there is repetitive acts of living (vicious...
Yet I'm not a nihilist, rather a pessimist. Nature may be indifferent, but we aren't indifferent to life as living itself requires axiological assessm...
So what it is about accomplishments that create these little Sisyphi? Why is that more powerful than the repetitious nature and absurdity of the situa...
I see what you're doing there. This criticism of my argument that you and apokrisis "got right" is actually the result of misinterpreting how I am usi...
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