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#253 – Michael Malice: New Year’s Special
Lex Fridman Podcast
Life Is Suffering
I agree with you that the cynicism is bad and destructive, but I think there's a lot of beauty to be discovered through that. The word suffering can encompass more than just specifically starving. If if you're not careful, life can appear meaningless. You can fall into a nihilistic view. It's difficult to have the responsibility of freedom to act in this world because you can fuck up in so many different ways. And then life is seemingly unfair in the sense that good things happen for no apparent reason and terribleThings happen for no point. But I don't think life is inherent. If life was suffering, we wouldn't be able to have happiness.
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