의미 있는 경험의 허무주의적 축소

### 의미의 환상: 허무주의에서 이해로 가는 여정
* 🌱 힘든 시기에 엄마와 함께 정원을 산책한 것은 **제가 회심하고 고통에 대해 깊이 깨닫게 된 결정적인 순간**이었습니다.
* 💔 저는 맥케나 와츠 같은 사상가들의 영향을 받아 새로운 시대의 관점을 받아들였지만, **어머니의 고통을 목격**하면서 제 세계관이 산산이 부서졌습니다.
* 🤔 그 순간 저는 고통이 단지 환상에 불과하다는 생각에 의문을 품었고, **그 믿음이 얼마나 피상적이고 허무맹랑한 것인지 깨달았습니다.**
* 🔍 저는 종종 의미 있는 경험을 단순한 물리적 요소로 축소하여 더 깊은 의미를 무시하는 부조리함을 강조하는 사람들에게 이의를 제기합니다.
* ⚖ 예를 들어, 악수와 같은 의미 있는 제스처를 단순히 **손을 맞잡는 것**이라고 주장하는 사람은 그 행동 뒤에 숨겨진 의식과 정체성을 간과하는 것입니다.
* 📉 이러한 환원주의적 접근 방식은 **금요일에 대한 흥분을 가라앉히면서 월요일이 뒤따른다**는 점을 지적할 때처럼 냉소적인 시각으로 이어질 수 있습니다.
* 🌌 닐 드그래스 타이슨은 **12월 25일과 같은 중요한 날짜를 사소화**하여 본질적인 의미가 없음을 강조함으로써 이 전술을 잘 보여줍니다.
* 🧠 이러한 의미 축소 패턴을 인식하면 **그러한 논쟁을 꿰뚫어보고 경험과 전통의 깊이**를 이해하는 것이 더 쉬워집니다.

어머니의 고통을 경험하면서 허무주의적 세계관이 깨지고 인생의 고난 뒤에 숨겨진 깊은 의미를 깨닫게 되었습니다.

one of the experiences I went through that really led to my conversion was actually walking in the garden with my mom. She'd been going through a very rough time at the time. This was a few years back, about I think six or seven years back. I was kind of the, I don't know what you would say, the new age guy who went to Cambodia and came back and thought he understood Zen, and was reading McKenna and reading Watts. I was very much within that whole world, and I just saw suffering. You know, I saw my mom going through a very rough time, and I just, my whole world view just collapsed right in front of me in that moment. I just realized that telling, saying to her in that moment, I didn't say it, but you know, it was on my mind wanting to say to her, you know, all this suffering, all this pain, it's all just an illusion. In that moment, I just realized how phony, how superficial, how flat, how nihilistic that actually is.

um because it's almost like you don't have to care about anything really. Uh, and I still cringe a little bit when I hear people say, Well, everything's just an illusion. I'll say, Okay, but now what? Right? Where do we go from here? What's the point of doing anything if everything's an illusion? If all the suffering, all the ambition I feel is just... When they say that, like right away, just slap them really hard in the face and then to just smile. All right, let carry on then, Mr. Illusion. It's like, Yes, well, yeah. I mean, it's like people who say, 'Uh, I don't have a moral problem with stealing,' and then they get robbed, right? And then you realize they actually do have a pretty big problem with the left, right? I can tell you, like, I can give you the trick, like the... If you want to understand the new atheist trick or like the materialist trick, the nihilist trick, it's very simple and it doesn't take it

doesn't take much. Once you understand it, all you have to do is reduce a United being to its components. And you don't have to do it. You have to do just one level, right? So someone said, someone says something is meaningful. And then you say, Oh, that's just like a human being is just, you know, a bunch of chemicals, a bag of chemicals, you know? So what you do, and so, and so the funny thing is that a bag of chemicals is also an identity. They all, all those things, the elements also have identities because, you know, there's a hierarchy of that, uh, but that's if you want to understand people do it all the time. They'll say something like, you know, it's like whatever it is that you're doing that's meaningful, they'll just reduce it to its elements. It's like shaking hands. What? You just touch people. We just touch our hands together. That's what we're doing. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous to touch our hands. What are we doing, right? So you can do

that for anything, anything that has meaning. But then the trick, and this is the trick, is that all the elements you bring it down to are also meaningful and symbolic and ritualized. And so you would have to like go all the way down. It's like you could always say about everything, Oh, it's just a Quantum field, or whatever, It's just a field of possibility, everything just a field of possibility. But usually, you can just do it one step. So it's like if you really want to be Mr. Cynical, that's all you need to do is just, Oh, it's a... You just have to reduce it to its elements, right? It's like, you know, a story in the Bible or some guy, right? Some guy gets nailed to a cross, he dies, and he comes back to life. Like, that's it, that's your religion. Seriously, it's ridiculous, right? And you can do it with anything, it's great. It's like, it's a beautiful, it's

like a trick, but once you see it, once you see that that's what happens, it's like you can't, you won't fall for it ever again when somebody tries to reduce something to its elements. Yeah, well, as you were saying that, I mean, you mentioned people can do with anything. I, I, it's almost like a good example of how it kind of injects nihilism into things as supposing I come to you and I've had a really rough week at work and it's Friday and I'm in a good mood because it's Friday and I think, yes, the weekend's coming up, I've got Saturday, I've got Sunday, aren't you glad it's Friday? And you say to me, well, look, you know, in three days it's Monday or I come to you in December, I'll come to December and I say, I'm so glad it's December and you say, yeah, but guess what next month is. And it's in a way to me, it's traction is the same thing as to

what you're describing, it's in a way reducing things to um components. Well, okay, what really is, what really does Friday mean since, you know, it's just another arbitrary point. It's just the convention, yeah. It's just a Convention of time that we've imposed on ourselves, and it's just funny, yeah. Like I said, it's hilarious. Neil deGrasse Tyson does that all the time. That's like, it's basically, it's one move. His one move is to say something like, There's absolutely nothing special about December 25th. You know, it's not even the solstice. It's like a few days after the solstice. It has no, like, there's no, there's no uh Geographic, you know, thing and happening in the sky that could explain the significance of that day. Just another day, basically. So you could do that, and he does it constantly. It's, it's hilarious. I think now that you've revealed it, I'm probably going to start noticing it a lot more. I don't know. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

you pay attention to him in particular. He's the... I don't know if he's still even online much, but like, if you look at his tweets, look at his posts, you'll see that he does it constantly. He just reduces something to its elements and then declares it to be non-meaningful. Thank you. [Music]

You'll Never Be Able to Unsee this Nihilist Trick | Jonathan Pageau (@dylangous)

Jonathan Pageau - Clips

어머니가 힘든 시기에 어머니와 함께 정원을 산책하던 중 그는 깊은 깨달음을 얻었습니다.

그 순간 고통에 대한 그의 신념과 관점은 피상적이고 허무주의적으로 느껴졌습니다.

그는 모든 것을 환상으로 보는 것의 타당성에 의문을 품고 그러한 세계관의 도덕적 함의에 대해 고민했습니다.

의미를 이해하려면 종종 인간을 화학 물질의 한 봉지로 보는 것과 같이 그 의미를 구성 요소로 환원해야 합니다.

이러한 환원주의적 접근 방식은 악수나 종교적 이야기와 같은 의미 있는 행동이나 사건에 적용할 수 있습니다.

그러나 요소 자체에도 의미와 중요성이 있기 때문에 환원의 단순성에 도전하는 복잡한 계층 구조가 형성됩니다.

사물을 요소로 축소하는 것이 미치는 영향

이벤트를 기본 구성 요소로 축소하면 허무감을 불러일으켜 그 중요성이 덜하게 느껴질 수 있습니다.

이러한 관점은 금요일이나 공휴일과 같은 중요한 날의 중요성을 경시하는 데 자주 사용됩니다.

닐 드그래스 타이슨은 중요한 날짜의 자의적 특성을 유머러스하게 지적하면서 이러한 접근 방식으로 유명합니다.

문제의 개인은 복잡한 주제를 기본적인 요소로 축소하고 의미가 없다고 선언하는 습관이 있습니다.

특히 트위터에서 그의 온라인 활동은 지속적이고 눈에 띄게 두드러집니다.

이러한 접근 방식은 다양한 주제를 단순하게 해석한다는 점에서 주목과 비판을 받고 있습니다.