If it is true that we cannot live a life devoid of any
intrinsic meaning, we have to create it and make-believe that life has meaning,
when we know that it doesn’t. It is like the atheist who denies the reality of
freewill but preaches that, for life to be lived coherently, we must
make-believe that we do have freewill. However, eventually the curtain will
come down on such absurdity. Why? Delusions never pay the bills.
How so? The well-managed life is one which is seen clearly
and understood. To not understand what we are managing – to live a life of
make-believe – condemns us to crash. It is like driving our car blindfolded.
A make-believe roadmap will prove costly and frustrating. It
is to be willfully blind. Wisdom is like having an accurate roadmap. It informs
us how to get to NYC from Chicago without getting lost. To deny that life has meaning, but to live as
if it does, is to enter into a world of make-believe. It is also an
acknowledgement that our roadmap is inaccurate. Instead, of following a make-believe
and misleading map, it might be time to find a more accurate map.
Worst of all, we are told that if there is an intrinsic
meaning and purpose of life, our world of make-believe pacifies us to stop
searching. To make this costly surrender more palatable, we are reassured, “Even
if there is a higher meaning to life, there is no way to really know about it
with any degree of certainty.” Besides, the intellectual is flattered to hear
that:
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It is the thinking and sensitive people who
realize this, and those who live defensively, according to their blind faith,
are unable to see this.
Such arrogance becomes content with the world of make-believe
and contemptuous of the seeker.
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