Meaninglessness Breaks In

• C.S. Lewis argues that if life is merely a product of evolutionary biology, the meaninglessness can disrupt even simple joys.
• One might try to find pleasure in love or art, but the awareness of their fleeting, accidental nature intrudes.
• The beauty of a person becomes a "momentary and accidental pattern produced by the collision of atoms."
• Enjoyment of music becomes an "irrational conditioning" of the nervous system.
• True warmth and joy reveal the "hopeless disharmony" between our emotions and a meaningless universe.