why do people who claim that everything is meaningless(most normies) go on and live life as if there is meaning?
>>17983650Most normies aren't absurdists / nihilists, they're usually either religious or simply don't care. An absence of meaning doesn't imply that you just give up on life entirely though. Most of what we do is pointless but we still feel compelled to do it mostly out of fear of consequences (which itself presents a meaning to life, ironically).
>>17983650Because they're hypocrites, plain and simple. They enjoy the comfort of meaning while pretending to be above it. It's an edgy pose, not a real philosophy. Their actions prove that deep down, they know life's experiences matter.
>>17983650Life lacking an objective inherent meaning, doesn't mean that you can't "give it" some subjective personal one (either to all of it or to whatever parts of it you so desire).
>>17983650>go on and live life as if there is meaning?What does that even mean? How does one "live life as if there is meaning"?
Why do people who claim that the number five does not have an intrisic color go on and live life as if five is colorful?
>>17983650They're trying to fill the void with fleeting pleasures.
>>17983832That's only le bad on your worldview which claims that there is an objective meaning that that pleasure is for poopooheads.
>>17983832Aren't we all?
>>17983650The Lord is my shepherd type beat
They often don’t really believe in total meaninglessness. It’s more of a casual pose. Day to day, they still act as if pleasure does matter. They’re compartmentalizing.
>>17985155The existence of preferences, drives and goals has absolutely nothing to do with some mythical objective meaning. People don't need some bearded guy to declare "sex is le gud and meaningful bro" for them to want to fuck.
>>17983650Because they are terrified of The Void, so they cling to their little dopamine hits and social constructs. They perform *meaning* like a bad actor, too cowardly to either fully embrace The Nothing or just fuck off. It is the ultimate intellectual dishonesty... Cosplaying purpose while pretending to be above it all.
>>17983650Postmodernism, the average perso doesn't think further than "This being true makes me feel good, therefore it must be true".
>>17985720That's not what postmodernism is about. :|
>>17985883Premodernism>concludes metaphysics before epistemology and axiom>god exists (metaphysical claim) and the others must follow that first paradigm, therefore science and politics must be in accordance with the holy texts.Modernism> Epistemology first, we find evidence and conclude our metaphysics from that, afterwards we see what the best way to live is according to what we can prove exists.Postmodernism>Axiom first, because reality and truth are social constructs anyway we should choose what we like to be true (I want to be a woman therefore I am one). Reality and evidence must bend to axiom.You can cry and bitch all you want, but that is the overarching philosophy of all three.
>>17985900There is no axioms in post modernism. It doesn't believe in some foundational grand narrative.
>>17985916The axiom is "Respect all axioms because all axioms are equal because truth is socially constructed anyway". Leading to you having to call a man "her". The axiom is tolerance.
>>17985947> Respect all axiomsSince when does postmodernism respect any axioms? It is built on skepticism, deconstructing grand narratives, not blindly accepting them. You are confusing its critique of absolute truth with a pluralist free-for-all. They are not the same. One questions foundations, the other just collects made up "truths".> Leading to you having to call a man "her". That’s not postmodernism, that is neo-modernism. A neo-marxist dogma enforcing its own "truth". It’s like when Christians demanded language conform to ideology, calling bread "flesh" or a man "god". Not some kind of tolerance, but just another narrative power play demanding compliance.
>>17985965If there is no overarching principle like "science" or "truth" then what you are left with is making up your mind for yourself. Without facts to back those up because facts and truth are constructed instead of discovered, you are left with feelings (like the feeling you might be a woman or the feeling you might be oppressed by not having the commissar give you your brothers oats). At least try to pretend to understand your own viewpoint.
