He goes through how traditional societies handle meaning, what modernity did to that, and then how modernity's attempt to provide a coherent, single way of making sense of the world fell apart due to the world wars and their aftermath. He comes at things from what seems to be a materialist-Buddhist take on the world, but he at least takes meaning and spirituality seriously. I found the whole website quite helpful for identifying and thinking through various spiritual issues, even if I now don't wholly agree with it.
What I found most relevant to your comment here is how he traces the development of a single "Counter Culture" to the many counter cultures of cliques to the complete atomization of today.
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Date: 2021-10-05 06:14 pm (UTC)He goes through how traditional societies handle meaning, what modernity did to that, and then how modernity's attempt to provide a coherent, single way of making sense of the world fell apart due to the world wars and their aftermath. He comes at things from what seems to be a materialist-Buddhist take on the world, but he at least takes meaning and spirituality seriously. I found the whole website quite helpful for identifying and thinking through various spiritual issues, even if I now don't wholly agree with it.
What I found most relevant to your comment here is how he traces the development of a single "Counter Culture" to the many counter cultures of cliques to the complete atomization of today.