Paul Conti

So, okay, if we take that as a given, that people who say that they know are having faith, like how Spinoza described faith, right?

Faith is that you don't know, but you believe anyway, right?

It's not because you have faith now you know something, right?

Because I think that's a slippery slope to the persecution of others, right?

So if we say, okay, we don't know, then...

We're left either deciding, okay, well, then to hell with everything.

There's that movie, Strange Brew, right?

Bob and Doug McKenzie, where the brakes don't work on the car and one of them says, oh, why bother steering, right?

So if we don't know that there's meaning, why bother steering?

Let's just give up the ghost, right?

And I don't think that's even what the nihilists said.

I mean, I think Bakunin said we should get rid of everything

that we've ever created except Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and start over from there.

But so even people who are very nihilistic or associated with that, a lot of them are just not liking what we had built, right?

So if we accept that a lot of what we have built as humans inside of us and outside of us is really counterproductive and doesn't help us, and that absurd things happen,

In the world, right?

And that often the way social structures and systems build up, build themselves up is absurd.

I think our healthcare system operates in a way that's absurd, right?

So if we accept that there are absurdities that we don't know if there's truth, then what are we left with?

But like, well, let's try and make meaning.