{"id":3911,"date":"2015-01-02T19:34:21","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T00:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3911"},"modified":"2015-01-02T19:34:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T00:34:21","slug":"the-meaning-of-your-life-is-other-people-the-automatic-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3911","title":{"rendered":"The Meaning of Your Life is Other People – The Automatic Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Meaning of Your Life is Other People – The Automatic Earth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In his 1944 play Huis Clos (loosely yet officially translated as No Exit, or Closed Door), French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre said: \u201cL\u2019enfer, c\u2019est les autres.\u201d Or: Hell is (the) other people. Which can be very true. And Sartre makes his point in a masterful way. He describes a group of people locked up together with no escape, and for eternity, who have a bitter go at each other. Something we all recognize. People can be a nuisance, and even drive one as far as suicide.<\/p>\n

But then, the opposite is just as true. In more ways than one. Not only is hell the absence of other people (though I know there are monks who choose full separation), but heaven is the other people too. Or, as normal mortals would say: \u2018(Wo)men, can\u2019t live with them, can\u2019t live without them\u2019. Or something along those lines.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s who we are. We are social animals. Lions, not tigers. We\u2019re tribal. We cannot give our lives meaning of and by ourselves, we need the other people to give it meaning. Though you may have gotten a different notion in your lifetime, the meaning of your life cannot be measured by something as fleeting as the size of your bank account. It cannot even by measured at all by \u2018you\u2019 yourself. Our lives derive their meaning from other people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n

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The Meaning of Your Life is Other People – The Automatic Earth. In his 1944 play Huis Clos (loosely yet officially translated as No Exit, or Closed Door), French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre said: \u201cL\u2019enfer, c\u2019est les autres.\u201d Or: Hell is (the) other people. Which can be very true. And Sartre makes his point in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[141,2357,244,2356,2355],"class_list":["post-3911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-climate-change","tag-competition","tag-economics-2","tag-human-social-behaviour","tag-social-animal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3912,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions\/3912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}