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The spiritual roots of our strange relationship to work
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The Importance of Meaning in Religious Devotion
I think he ultimately, I mean, there is meaning. Even if there's no surety of a traditionally religious salvation, one can say that stripped of that certainty, all of our lives become immensely meaningful. Reading Graber makes me feel like the world is full of possibility even when disenchanted. So one of the funny ironies about the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism, he writes it as a kind of bracing demystification of modern complacency. And there's the thrill, is the kind of romantic thrill of looking into the abyss.
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