The Meaningful Life is Storied

Benjamin Cain
Nov 3 · 6 min read
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Is your life a story? Are we literally the authors of our life? Should we be?

Jared Bauer from Wisecrack argues that we shouldn’t think in such grandiose terms, because to do so is to set ourselves up for disappointment. If we don’t receive the redemption we expect, we’ll think our suffering has been in vain. Instead, he suggests, we should come to terms with the pointlessness of our hardships.

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Benjamin Cain

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Knowledge condemns. Art redeems. That’s roughly what I learned as an artistic writer who did a doctorate in philosophy. We should learn enough to see the comedy

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