Ourselves As Our Biggest Threat - Jason Silva, Shots of Awe

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1. "Come out with better kind of symbolic structures that allow our psyches to merge with some...

higher meaning so that our lives can stand for something. This, I think, could be our cure."


Well, that certainly seems like rhetoric which is as unable to bridge the finite with the infinite as anything I've ever heard before, but perhaps others see that rhetoric as half full.

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2. To describe poetic language as mere rhetoric, I think, is the problem he's describing.

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3. That might be. However, it's hard to fathom the depth of the vagueness in his words.

Poetry typically holds meaning. The closest to meaning that he came was his trite line about the poverty of money. He might as well speak of the poverty of shelter, food and clothing. But to sell such vagueness as a cure for despair and to market it based on suicide statistics is reprehensible. Hence, it's merely rhetorical fluff wrapped in unaided despair, a despair that's used as a means to an end. But others may differ in their opinions and analyses. Clearly, you believe differently.