Yes, with that kind of attitude life does seem pointless.
My opinion is that not everything we do in life needs to aimed towards the lofty self-actualization of mankind... or even the lofty self-actualization of one's self, which is the point being made later in the blog post.
Sometimes you wanna build something and see what happens. Hell yea I'll praise that.
Most human progress is made incrementally and in all directions, with many of the paths failing. The original versions of many extraordinary things seemed like meaningless branches of a capitalistic society.
There was a time when people played chess over telegraph, and considered telegraphy as a technology nothing more than a strange novelty.*
* For more, I highly recommend checking out the book "The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers"
My opinion is that not everything we do in life needs to aimed towards the lofty self-actualization of mankind... or even the lofty self-actualization of one's self, which is the point being made later in the blog post.
Sometimes you wanna build something and see what happens. Hell yea I'll praise that.
Most human progress is made incrementally and in all directions, with many of the paths failing. The original versions of many extraordinary things seemed like meaningless branches of a capitalistic society.
There was a time when people played chess over telegraph, and considered telegraphy as a technology nothing more than a strange novelty.*
* For more, I highly recommend checking out the book "The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers"