What's it all about?

It all about Alfie. Is it just for the moment we live? Bill Sam Harris declares a crisis of meaning for 2024 in his recent podcast.

You've debated Sam Harris and written in his

podcast, written on meaning so obviously Harris's podcast

get your attention.

In fact, it really seemed to have got your antenna up this particular one.

Well, I think it's important here to distinguish as we listen to these clips between

subjective and objective meaning in life. My concern is with

whether life has an objective meaning, purpose, and value. But I think that Harris is talking more about the

subjective search for fulfillment, as he says later, the search for happiness and frankly I think if you want

to find simply that sort of subjective meaning in life then you just need to

follow the advice of a person like Jordan Peterson and align

yourself with a noble cause that is much greater than yourself and lose yourself in that and that will provide a sort of

subjective sense of meaning to your life but it obviously doesn't do anything

to establish an objective meaning to your existence nor a purpose

for your existence nor objective value in life.

Let's listen to some excerpts from the podcast,

starting with this first one.

Here's how the podcast begins.

It's now widely acknowledged that even in the most affluent societies, perhaps especially in the most affluent

societies, there's a crisis of meaning.

There are many signs of this.

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