Ranting/processing

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..."All right, so what, where's the problem?" Well. My problem is that I hear LOTS of "It means nothing!" and talk of personal empowerment. I hear lots of people describing how we all deserve, merely by being humans, merely by existing, to be happy and live the lives we want to live and do what we want to do. Lovely sentiments. But when you use "Nothing that happens means anything" you open a REAL big can of worms. It's deceptive, and over-generalized, and imprecise. Things DO have meaning. Knowing how that basic meaning will impact others, based on their operating rules, is important. The self-empowerment found in "happenings have no meaning" is heady, and wonderful - power is fun. But it also requires a great deal of responsibility. And I don't hear that part getting talked up AT ALL. I hear lots of how we all deserve it, through no effort at all, no proof of a sense of responsibility required. Chain saws and toddlers..."