• naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      What is the point of this remark? It seems overly literal. The post isn’t saying that some point is carved into the stuff of the universe, nobody thinks if you get a powerful enough microscope you’ll see “make art and fornicate” written in little wiggling molecular strands. We’re all raised in the same postmodern world lol.

      There is subtext to all human communication, in this case the subtext is “Inasmuch as humans find reasons for existing beyond simply a biological aversion to suicide the outlined reasons are not satisfactory. Nonetheless society is hostile to acting out other goals, this is a problem.”

      So why make the remark? Do you think people don’t know that there is no cosmic purpose? Do you want to stand out as having been exposed to ideas from nihilism and absurdism? What do you add?