Would we still be celebrating The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in the same fashion, were it not for its sublime closing track? “A Day In The Life” summed up all that came before it ...

"What are the possibilities for human existence in an age that seems intent on destroying itself?" This question was posed by John Kaag in his book ‘Hiking with Nietzsche’. Given that it is ...

Can people learn more simply by exposing themselves to absurd or meaningless stories? A schema refers to people's expectations. So for instance, one's schema for a card deck is that hearts are red, ...

Absurdist books turn pointlessness into something strangely bearable, using dark humour, repetition, failed logic and human ...

Our brain automatically assigns meaning[1]. It is not worth fighting it. We’d lose anyway. When our senses get into contact with anything, be it an object, an event, a person, or a situation, our ...

Alongside more material concerns, a lack of meaning invariably decays the cogs in the 9 to 5 machine. Depending on what it is you do every day, doing it every-day will likely exhaust much of the drive ...