Word: meaninglessness
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...much better reading to be had. Some of it's by Gardner himself; that makes it even harder to say Dialogues isn't worth the time. Or as one of the novel's characters put it: "She realized, briefly, that she was merely a character in an endless, meaningless novel, then forgot...
What lessons can Americans learn from these remarkable people? They can reassess their attitudes toward the role of violence in social change, recognizing that a consideration of violence that ignores the social and political context is meaningless. The actions of the American government in Southeast Asia were not criminal merely because they unleashed indiscriminate violence against a smaller nation. They were criminal because the destruction was intended to annihilate a people who were striving to achieve some measure of dignity and control over thei own lives--an objective Americans have traditionally championed. What should trouble Americans is not the realization...
Professors have always thought that many undergraduates live meaningless lives, but until Monday morning at 11 a.m. when 500 people flocked to Philosophy 10, "The Meaning of Life," their fears were uncorroborated...
...tutor who is familiar with Nozick's philosophy courses suggested, however, that Nozick would surprise students by concluding that the question of the meaning of life is itself meaningless...
...also realizes the tendency of myth to take over all speech, creeping into words and making them say things they were never intended to say. Myth can set up its meanings almost anywhere: because it works by making form and meaning coincide, it can even give meaning to the meaningless and the absurd, as it does in surrealism. The only language which is safe from its infiltration, according to Barthes, is the language of overt intentions--political language...