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#227 – Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Boring IRS Tax Examiner
The main character of Wallace's novel is an IRS tax examiner. He spends eight hours a day doing the most boring thing you could possibly imagine. The question is, how do you put up with this onslaught of meaninglessness? And that's my metaphor for what I think Wallace must have imagined we have to try to aspire to.
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