Philosophy Film: true lies

“We cannot exist without purpose, even if that purpose is fiction…”

“It lies to us in order for us to live on everyday.”

I agree with everything that has been brought up in this particular video. Humans were not created in order to question the meaning of existence and life. Instead, I believe that we were created with the simple goal of “survive.” However, as life progresses rapidly into the future, we start to want more and more. The more we want, the more we cannot have; the more we cannot have, the more we’d question “why”. Thus our “true” purpose was never to find the meaning of life, but as we become more and more complicated, we cannot simply be satisfied with the purpose of “survival”.

I believe that humans, in general, flourish better under the false assumption that there is more to life, than just… life. For example, I don’t think anyone would ever find the meaning to life, and yet everyone searches desperately for that answer. We search with the determined mindset of finding the answer, and carry the acknowledgement that we would never truly find the answer. Under such false pretense, the human race has been able to live contently for the last billions of years.