That's an excellent article, and I'll certainly have to explore that website more. Thanks for sending it! "Stance" is a great framing, and it sounds very similar to "art-forms' in The Fate of Beauty and Conditionalism. I hope to publish the paper on "Conditionalism" very soon, which is finished but needs to be edited. I completely agree that we need to think of meaning in terms of skills, arts, stances, and the like, versus systems. I tried to touch on that a little in "Labels, Names, and Poems," though no pressure at all to give that a look. This change in thinking is super important.
It's a great site. Excited to read "Conditionalism" when it comes out! The weird thing is that we have to change our thinking en masse, and that's wildly different than changing the view of a couple of people. Interesting challenges ahead.
'...we must work toward a new solution to “The Meaning Crisis,” a new system of managing trade-offs that transcends the immorality of past ages.'
Absolutely agree. I think David Chapman has a really compelling theory on how to solve the meaning crises. Instead of systems, we need new 'stances':
https://meaningness.com/stances-trump-systems
That's an excellent article, and I'll certainly have to explore that website more. Thanks for sending it! "Stance" is a great framing, and it sounds very similar to "art-forms' in The Fate of Beauty and Conditionalism. I hope to publish the paper on "Conditionalism" very soon, which is finished but needs to be edited. I completely agree that we need to think of meaning in terms of skills, arts, stances, and the like, versus systems. I tried to touch on that a little in "Labels, Names, and Poems," though no pressure at all to give that a look. This change in thinking is super important.
It's a great site. Excited to read "Conditionalism" when it comes out! The weird thing is that we have to change our thinking en masse, and that's wildly different than changing the view of a couple of people. Interesting challenges ahead.