Reasoned arguments that contain implicit valuations of life, however coherent and compelling, are always in part explanations ex post facto of the instincts and temperament, personality, and character that influence every aspect of the experience of the individual. That is why two people can see life in entirely different ways,…
Many of the goals that people pursue have less to do with the pursuit itself than with the pursuit as a means of externalizing a self-perception and aligning their own idealized self with the self defined and perceived by the world. Goals then become the sublimation of a desire not…
If there is a collective stupidity in the modern world, a tragicomedy peculiar to developed countries and played out ad nauseam in the media and popular culture, it is that of our perception of the human lifespan, which is just long enough for people to kid themselves about its laughable…
