Awakening From the Meaning Crisis

​Inspired by John Vervaeke's series "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis," we're going to try to understand and break down the meaning crisis we find ourselves in.

​This is going to be a free form discussion where we dive into the material from the series and try to understand if we're in a meaning criss, why and how we got here, and how we might be able to move forward.

​Here are the themes of each week, with the topics we'll draw on(sources and reading to be added later!):

Week 1: What is "meaning"? Why is it in a crisis?

• ​Wisdom, Insight, Rationality

• ​Consciousness, Mindfulness, Flow

• ​Truth and Bullshit

• ​Self-Transcendence

​Week 2: History of the meaning crisis:

• ​How did we get here? Did we ever have real meaning in the past?

• ​Role of philosophy and religion

• ​How did the modern world crowd out meaning?

• ​What is the role of technology in all this (specifically, social media and AI).

​Week 3: Social Transformation

• ​What do we need to do as a society to move forward?

• ​Where do solutions lie — policy? community? philosophy? Technology?

​Week 4: Personal Transformation

• ​What can we do, as an individual and a community, to bring more meaning into our own lives?

• ​How can we take steps to increase our own wisdom and that of our community?