[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37949878]

It only sounds silly to our modern sensibilities, which I am increasingly considering regressive on the specific question of “what is a life well-lived”.

To a pre-modern society that considers e.g. dreams to be vehicles of important meaning, religiousity to be a good thing in measure, idle time to be a gift and introspection to be one of the major points of existence, it doesn’t sound silly at all. It sounds wise.

I’m a scientist by training and an engineer by trade, but as an empiricist, I am forced to admit that my life has gotten better by making room for the irrational, superstitious, obliquely-associative, self-contradictory omginternets to exist. Make of that what you will ;)