Life and the Universe are Neither Meaningless nor Meaningful
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8 min readMar 23, 2023
Many religious people look for the (singular) meaning of Life… the Universe and everything. The existentialists, on the other hand, embraced the meaninglessness (or absurdity) of these very same things. Yet surely the latter position is just an inversion of a binary opposition. In Derrida’s terms, one half of this opposition is completely parasitical on the other half. Ironically, then, the existentialists embraced religious ways of thinking.
