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ah, you now understand: we live in an meaningless universe. Your mistake is thinking struggle, or suffering, gives it meaning.

It doesn't.

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Edgy but I would agree that struggle doesn't give existence meaning in any cosmic, philosophical, or mathematical sense. However, the need for it seems to be something hardwired into living beings, without which they wither away. Struggle and suffering might be considered a necessary, if unpleasant, nutrient of sorts.

Nothing edgy about existentialism, which the Culture always forces us to confront up close.

>struggle [...] hardwired into living beings, without which they wither away

The reason Sisyphus is happy (or so we imagine) is not because he's struggling for all eternity

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