mikema63 wrote:All life under any political system will be an existential nightmare. We exist for no particular reason and nothing can alleviate the inevitability of our death, the death of all humanity, and the death of the universe. It is inevitable and all is meaningless.
It's all well and good to criticism the west, capitalism, or other social systems, but don't go blaming them for the inherent nature of our existence.
I've always thought that people who demand that life have a meaning are slaves in search of a master. After all, let us assume that life has a meaning, and that we know what that meaning is. We would become
slaves to that meaning, to that purpose. We would have no choice but to conform to it, to obey it, and to live our lives in accordance with it. It would be like living in the Imperium of Mankind in
Warhammer 40k, but without the cool power armour.
No, life has no meaning, and it's a damn good thing that it doesn't. It's the only thing that guarantees our existential freedom as human beings.
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." - Marx (Groucho)