The Relationship Between Meaning and Responsibility

Human beings discovered time. To be aware of our own mortality is a consequence of the discovery of time, right? We can see how we extend out into the future. And so taking care of yourself in the future and taking care of other people actually turns out to be exactly the same thing. If you act in your own best interest, then you're going sacrifice some of the present for the future. So that narrow selfishness is blindness to time and context, and there's nothing about it that's good. It's not only what you want for yourself but who you are as well. You have to beat yourself on the back of the head with a stick to get yourself to move forward