The Meaning of Value or The Value of Meaning

"Thinking is not necessarily a good idea" a good friend of mine once suggested while gaining insight from some magic mushrooms.  But I'll take it another step: why do anything?  Why muddy up the waters of the moment with reactions?  Why extract validation from some arbitrary external source in order to determine the worth of a thing? What does anything mean?  What does anything matter?

That being asked, the answer might be that nothing does, in fact, matter at all.  So why bother?  I guess because not bothering is actually worse.  Nihilism is worse than hope.  And hope is a form of madness.  The choices are really about entertainment on a personal level, then.  So why not embrace the absurd?

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