Tell a kid he’s an evolved animal, that nothing is really true, and that the point to life is to eat, sleep, work, die. Tell him that government is his god. Then be amazed when he takes that philosophy to its logical end.
“Tell a kid he’s an evolved animal, that nothing is really true, and that the point to life is to eat, sleep, work, die. Tell him that government is his god. Then be amazed when he takes that philosophy to its logical end.”
There is a ton of substance in what you wrote. A ton. Take away meaning and the possibilities of life, and you wind up with demoralization, and demoralization is worse than depression.