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A comment on The Deadly Boredom of ‘A Meaningless Life’.

Re:The Deadly Boredom of ‘A Meaningless Life’ by smarri on Friday August 09, 2019 @07:59PM (#20659221)
"Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back"

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. In many ways tradition is disappearing, at least where I'm from, and I can't yet tell if it is for better or worse.

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Re:The Deadly Boredom of ‘A Meaningless Life’ by lm28469 on Saturday August 10, 2019 @05:54PM (#20664706)
It's easy to destroy things buts very hard to come up with something to replace them. Religion is a good example, borders also comes to mind.

Not saying it's all black vs white but some traditions emerged for a reason and should be fully understood before being destroyed. Again religion is a good example, life meaning was a solved problem for most believers.

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