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Is There a Meaning Crisis?
Stoicism arose during the Hellenistic period when there was a significant meaning crisis in the ancient world. It is no coincidence that stoicism is coming back into prominence right now, he says. If we just leave things be, the meaning crisis dissipates because we long to create institutions and collective ideas - this distributed cognition process that gives us meaning.