Fluidity

This chart is an overview of Meaningness and Time: the past, present, and future of culture, society, and our selves. https://meaningness.com/modes-chart Also - "In praise of choicelessness." The choiceless mode of understanding meaning has no "becauses." Explanations are unnecessary because you are unaware of any alternatives. https://meaningness.com/choiceless-mode

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Beginning the next book by David Chapman: "Meaningness And Time". Past modes of relating to meaning and meaninglessness have broken down. How do we move to the fluid mode of social organization?

The problems of meaningness we face now are dramatically different from those of the past. We also sense new opportunities, and have new resources.

https://meaningness.com/meaningness-and-time How meaning fell apart: Over the past century, systems of meaning gradually disintegrated, and a series of new modes of meaningness developed.

https://meaningness.com/meaningness-history

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At the start of every episode, I've said "Words with an entry in the glossary have an echo." Well, it's time for the glossary! https://meaningness.com/whole-glossary Terminology choices: "Complete." "Emptiness and form, nebulosity and pattern." "Non-dual." https://meaningness.com/terminology/complete https://meaningness.com/terminology/emptiness-form-nebulosity-pattern https://meaningness.com/terminology/non-dual Next week, the podcast will begin a hiatus for the holidays, returning in January 2022, with "Meaningness And Time." If you have ways of relating to meaningness through winter rituals, may they be as they put it in "Ritual And Its Consequences: An Essay On The Limits Of Sincererity". "...the endless work of building, refining, and rebuilding webs of relationships in an otherwise fragmented world." https://vividness.live/ritual-vs-mentalism Original music by Kevin MacLeod. This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

When you discover you are owned by an ideology, you can escape. Better, you can find a larger space.

https://meaningness.com/vaster-than-ideology

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Intuitions of "cosmic meaning" root in hunger for personal significance, and in encounters with vastness.

https://meaningness.com/no-cosmic-meaning

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No ultimate meaning: "Ultimate" means "at the end of a scale." What is the scale of meaning? Should you want to be at the end of it?

https://meaningness.com/no-ultimate-meaning No eternal meaning: Meanings come and go; they are not eternally stable— and that is fine.

https://meaningness.com/no-eternal-meaning

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No absolute meaning: Are you adult enough to accept that the world offers no absolute guarantees? https://meaningness.com/no-absolute-meaning No transcendent meaning: If meaning lives only in Neverland, we can't make much use of it. Fortunately, it's here, now. https://meaningness.com/no-transcendent-meaning

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Lite nihilism, on the way to completion: Lite nihilism includes a valuable, accurate analysis of the failure of eternalism. https://meaningness.com/lite-nihilism Not really meaningful: "Nothing REALLY means anything" sounds plausible when you feel nihilistic. What does "really" mean, though? https://meaningness.com/no-real-meaning No extra-special fancy meanings: Nihilism rightly denies objective, ultimate, transcendent, absolute, cosmic, and eternal meanings. What is left? https://meaningness.com/no-special-meaning Original music by Kevin MacLeod. This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

The many justifications for nihilism rely on a handful of mistaken patterns of reasoning. https://meaningness.com/nihilist-fallacies Links mentioned in this episode: Scott Alexander's blog post "Proving too much". "Finding Meaning In An Imperfect World" by Iddo Landau

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This episode narrates the new pages "'Nihilism is OK' is not OK" and "The uncanny absence of nihil –ism". "Nihilism is inevitable, but not a problem." This is mistaken: it makes you miserable and ineffective, and erodes social and cultural capacity. https://meaningness.com/nihilism-considered-harmful Nihilism, like botulism, is not an ideology or conceptual system. It is a stance: an emotionally-charged way of being. https://meaningness.com/nihilism-is-not-an-ism Links mentioned in this episode: In "Postmodernism vs. The Pomoid Cluster" John Nerst analyzes the relationship between postmodernism as an academic theory, and "pomo" as a popular way of relating to meaningness. The TV Tropes page "Straw Nihilist". I struggled with saying "schismatic subsects", but you only get the edited version in which I nailed it. :)

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