{"id":164017,"date":"2025-09-28T18:09:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=164017"},"modified":"2025-09-28T18:09:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:09:34","slug":"the-meaning-of-life-is-a-status-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=164017","title":{"rendered":"The Meaning Of Life Is A Status Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.everythingisbullshit.blog\/p\/the-meaning-of-life-is-bullshit\">David Pinsof writes<\/a>: That\u2019s why the intelligentsia cares about the meaning of life. They\u2019re looking for a way to rationalize their lives\u2014to dress up their careers and political loyalties in self-important verbiage. They\u2019re looking for a not-too-obviously-false story they can tell about themselves to look morally and intellectually sophisticated, so that other nerds will praise them as \u201cprofound,\u201d \u201crevolutionary,\u201d and \u201chumane.\u201d Debates about the meaning of life are ultimately a convoluted form of status jockeying.<\/p>\n<p>Why else would apes like us care about the meaning of life? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Pinsof writes: That\u2019s why the intelligentsia cares about the meaning of life. They\u2019re looking for a way to rationalize their lives\u2014to dress up their careers and political loyalties in self-important verbiage. They\u2019re looking for a not-too-obviously-false story they can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=164017\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43013],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-david-pinsof"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164018,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164017\/revisions\/164018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}