An acquaintance of mine once told me, in a frustrated response to one of my blog posts, that “humanity is meaningless”. I guess I should have seen his frustration coming. Looking back on it now, the text message I had used to direct him to the blog post itself could have been perceived as being quite snarky. Not to mention, he read the post back when I had most of my posts titled with the combative opening “Battle Against…” and the title of the whole blog was still “Crusaders Papers”. (For those of you who know what I’m talking about, thanks for sticking with this blog for so long!)
Nonetheless, I was stricken by his assessment of humanity. “All of it? Meaningless? Really?!” Over time, I came to discover that he was far from the only cynic in the world, and that most other cynics went much farther than him in their negative assessments. I came to realize the striking popularity of the opinion that everything is meaningless. Naturally, in consideration of its popularity, I began a mental investigation of this worldview. Can the view that everything is meaningless withstand rigorous philosophical scrutiny? Furthermore, can we live with the implications of such a view? These and more questions on the opinion of meaninglessness are addressed in the following essay.
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