Feb 28, 2022
Taking a break from narrating "Meaningness And Time" to give
you a standalone essay by the author, David Chapman, which I call
the Bridge essay. It will be helpful in our next few episodes, in
which "Meaningness And Time" describes the counter-cultures'
renegotiation of the relationship between self and society.
The...
Feb 20, 2022
The hippies and the Moral Majority both tried to rescue
systematic eternalism—and failed. We live amongst their
wreckage.
Countercultures defined as new, alternative, universalist,
eternalist, anti-rational systems: there were two in the late 20th
century.
Feb 13, 2022
Modernity was built on certainty in science and mathematics.
That was revealed as delusional during the early 20th
century.
An hour-long episode!
For many of my acquaintance, this is an important entry point
into Chapman's work, tying together Meaningness And Time
with his other book In The Cells Of The Eggplant....
Feb 8, 2022
How and why modernity failed. All systems of meaning—religious, political, artistic, psychological—began to fall apart. Nihilism seemed the only alternative.
https://meaningness.com/systems-crisis-breakdown
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