The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 51 - We Have Ceased To See The Purpose

00:00:00.000 So I wrote last week about the emptiness in our culture and in the hearts of many people

00:00:06.560 in our culture, which I think is at the root of our current suicide epidemic, and also

00:00:12.540 it's at the root of pretty much all of our problems in our country.

00:00:17.120 We have fled from God, we've fled from meaning, we've fled from purpose, and we've embraced

00:00:22.500 this kind of nihilism.

00:00:24.140 Although we don't call it nihilism, nobody would actually call it that anymore.

00:00:27.120 We use other words and phrases to kind of soften it up a little bit, so we'll say things

00:00:32.520 like, you only live once, and live your truth, and those sorts of things, but they all mean

00:00:37.980 to communicate a nihilistic perspective on life.

00:00:42.220 People are told that there's only one life, only one reality, it has no meaning aside from

00:00:47.820 what you assign to it, and then the question is, well, what happens when you stop assigning

00:00:53.180 meaning to it?

00:00:54.080 What happens when you stop finding meaning in it?

00:00:57.800 Well, our culture says, if you don't assign it, if you don't find it, then it's not there.

00:01:04.780 Because there is no objective meaning, it's only what you find.

00:01:09.680 Now, after writing that piece, I was on the plane home from Denver, where I was speaking

00:01:14.660 at the Western Conservative Summit, which is a great event, by the way.

00:01:17.420 And I was reading a collection of Solzhenistin writings, this book right here, which is a

00:01:25.100 great book, by the way, I'd definitely picked this up.

00:01:27.600 And I flipped to a speech that he gave in 1993.

00:01:32.580 This is after I just so happened to write on this subject.

00:01:34.720 And I was reading through this book, and I flipped to a speech that he wrote in 1993.

00:01:39.400 I wanted to just pull this up, because it speaks exactly to what we were, what I was writing

00:01:49.100 about, what we've been talking about.

00:01:50.860 Now, it's not a coincidence that I happened to find that theme written about in a Solzhenistin

00:01:56.180 book, because this is a theme that he talked about throughout his whole life, that he kept

00:01:59.280 going back to.

00:01:59.980 But the speech that he gave in 1993, who did he give this speech to?

00:02:06.600 Okay, he gave this to the International Academy of Philosophy.

00:02:10.340 And the speech is called, We Have Ceased to See the Purpose.

00:02:15.900 We Have Ceased to See the Purpose.

00:02:17.420 I just want to read a little bit from it, because I think it's really powerful.

00:02:19.880 He says, we have allowed our wants to grow unchecked, and are now at a loss where to direct

00:02:26.380 them.

00:02:26.640 And with the obliging assistance of commercial enterprises, newer and yet newer wants are

00:02:32.460 concocted, some wholly artificial, and we chase after them en masse but find no fulfillment,

00:02:38.580 and we never shall.

00:02:40.060 The endless accumulation of possessions, that will not bring fulfillment either.

00:02:45.340 Modern transportation has flung the world wide open to people in the West.

00:02:48.800 Even without it, modern man can all but leap out beyond the confines of his being.

00:02:53.260 Through the eyes of television, he is present throughout the whole planet, all at the same

00:02:57.800 time.

00:02:58.740 Yet it turns out that from this spasmodic pace of technocentric progress, from the oceans

00:03:04.580 of superficial information and cheap spectacles, the human soul does not grow, but instead grows

00:03:10.920 more shallow, and spiritual life is only reduced.

00:03:14.840 Our culture, accordingly, grows poorer and dimmer, no matter how it tries to drown out its decline

00:03:20.440 with the din of empty novelties.

00:03:23.100 As creature comforts continue to improve for the average person, so spiritual development

00:03:28.040 grows stagnant.

00:03:29.740 Comfort brings with it a nagging sadness of the heart, as we sense that the whirlpool of

00:03:34.740 pleasures does not bring satisfaction, and that, before long, it may suffocate us.

00:03:40.320 No, all hope cannot be pinned on science, technology, or economic growth.

00:03:46.100 The victory of technological civilization has also instilled in us a spiritual insecurity.

00:03:51.720 Its gifts enrich but enslave us as well.

00:03:55.460 All is interest.

00:03:57.020 We must not neglect our interests.

00:03:59.380 All is a struggle for material things.

00:04:01.780 But an inner voice tells us that we have lost something pure, elevated, and fragile.

00:04:05.920 We have ceased to see the purpose.

00:04:09.540 Let us admit, even if in a whisper, and only to ourselves, in the hustle of life at breakneck

00:04:16.560 speed, what are we living for?

00:04:21.060 So, I guess I should just end it right there, because Solzhenitsyn's already spoken, so I

00:04:25.460 can't really add to that and say anything more profound than what he already said.

00:04:30.120 But this is really the problem.

00:04:32.200 The problem is, well, it's twofold, I think.

00:04:35.920 Um, first, we don't know ourselves, okay?

00:04:40.260 We don't know who we are.

00:04:42.840 And second, we don't know our purpose.

00:04:45.580 And I think a person has to know both of those things, or he will be in despair.

00:04:51.080 And if we have a culture, a country, a nation, a civilization of people who are confused on

00:04:57.080 both of those points, then you will have a civilization of despair.

00:05:01.160 And I think that we're living in a civilization of despair.

00:05:04.820 Because we have a crisis of identity and a crisis of meaning.

00:05:09.940 I don't mean to keep throwing books at you, but as I was thinking about this, I wanted to

00:05:13.040 do a video on it.

00:05:14.140 And then I remembered another book, Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death, which is a very difficult

00:05:21.140 one.

00:05:21.520 It's not exactly a, you know, cover-to-cover, beach-read type of book.

00:05:26.120 It's pretty heavy stuff.

00:05:28.180 But The Sickness Unto Death, and Kierkegaard already talks about it.

00:05:31.340 He explains in the introduction that from the Christian perspective, from the Christian

00:05:35.320 understanding, even a sickness that kills you does not really lead to death.

00:05:40.360 It is not a sickness unto death, because death is only the sort of gateway into eternal life.

00:05:48.720 But if we reject this, and if we see ourselves as only temporal, then that is the sickness

00:05:56.320 that leads to death, to despair, to destruction.

00:06:01.020 On the first page of the first chapter of this book, Kierkegaard says,

00:06:04.140 A human being is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal,

00:06:11.260 of freedom and necessity.

00:06:13.860 And he goes on, I won't read more than that, but he goes on to say that, basically argue

00:06:20.780 that a man is in despair when he denies or rejects or gives up on one aspect of that synthesis.

00:06:32.000 So when we give up on the eternal and infinite and truly free aspects of our being, and we

00:06:43.220 don't see ourselves as spirit anymore, we don't recognize that part of the synthesis of our

00:06:51.880 being, then that's when we fall into despair.

00:06:54.420 Because a man like that doesn't know himself, and thus doesn't know his purpose, and so he's

00:07:01.800 in despair.

00:07:02.700 Know yourself and know your purpose.

00:07:04.340 That's the point here.

00:07:06.460 And I think as a culture, we tend to fail on both counts.

00:07:11.500 So I want to, let's just look at this one at a time.

00:07:13.900 Um, so first, know yourself, know your identity.

00:07:22.500 It's no coincidence that the discussion of, you know, things like gender identity have,

00:07:28.100 have gripped a hold of the nation at the same time that the suicide rate climbs through the

00:07:31.600 roof.

00:07:32.080 It's no coincidence that trans, quote unquote, transgender people have such an astronomically 1.00

00:07:36.740 high rate of suicide.

00:07:37.780 I believe that transgender people attempt suicide at a rate of about 40%.

00:07:44.480 Now the rate for the rate for the entire nation is climbing, but the general rate for everybody

00:07:51.960 is like four or five percent, which is still high.

00:07:56.620 40% is just a shocking figure.

00:08:02.480 Why?

00:08:02.760 Why would you have 40% of people in a particular demographic who attempt suicide?

00:08:12.920 It's not enough to say, well, I know, I know the claim that what leftists will say is, well,

00:08:17.040 it's because they're bullied.

00:08:18.580 Now, I'm sorry, that doesn't explain it.

00:08:21.580 There have been many groups of people who have fared much, much, much worse in society than

00:08:27.920 modern day, quote, transgenders do, and yet they never attempted suicide anywhere near

00:08:32.800 that rate.

00:08:34.400 I mean, think about Black people up until civil rights.

00:08:37.660 Think about Black people during slavery.

00:08:39.760 Well, they certainly had it worse in terms of their liberties and their treatment in society

00:08:43.500 than, quote unquote, transgender people do. 0.97

00:08:46.360 Yet actually, what you find usually among persecuted groups in any country throughout history is you

00:08:53.380 find actually the reverse effect.

00:08:54.940 You find that the suicide rate will actually go down most of the time in the face of real

00:09:01.000 harsh persecution, because there's this kind of resilience that is sparked.

00:09:07.400 But that's, with transgenders, 40%. 1.00

00:09:10.100 Why?

00:09:12.320 Well, because I think Kierkegaard was onto something.

00:09:14.240 There's a profound despair that comes with not knowing who you are, with not knowing your

00:09:21.640 identity.

00:09:23.120 When you don't recognize the synthesis, there's a despair that comes.

00:09:28.680 And it seems like a lot of us are very confused on this point.

00:09:32.520 A lot of us don't know who we are.

00:09:33.920 Even if we don't identify as a sex opposite from our physical one, it seems like a lot 1.00

00:09:39.140 of us still struggle with this.

00:09:41.100 But we don't know who we are.

00:09:42.540 And from there, you get everything from gender identity to plastic surgery and beyond.

00:09:47.780 I mean, think even of the people who are, I mean, this manifests itself in so many ways.

00:09:52.920 Think about the people who are obsessed with fashion trends.

00:09:55.500 And they have no identity of their own.

00:09:58.600 They have no sense of themselves.

00:10:00.800 They just wear what everybody else wears.

00:10:02.640 They say what everyone else says.

00:10:04.280 They develop the same interests as everybody else.

00:10:06.920 They kind of fade into the collective.

00:10:09.820 And the trends and the fashions and everything, it's more like camouflage for them, because it's

00:10:15.460 meant to blend them into their surroundings.

00:10:19.420 Or think of all the people who call themselves super fans of sports teams or super fans.

00:10:25.500 Superheroes or sci-fi franchises or what have you.

00:10:28.620 I'm not talking about regular fans.

00:10:30.200 I mean, people who are utterly obsessed with some form of entertainment.

00:10:36.380 It's just, it's their whole life.

00:10:38.560 It's the primary thing they care about.

00:10:41.620 And if you say anything critical of it around them, they will lose their minds.

00:10:48.580 They, I remember there was a, there was a national review writer a year or two ago who wrote

00:10:54.640 a critical column about Star Wars and she got death threats for, for insulting Star Wars.

00:11:02.060 Now think about the kind of people that would send death threats because you don't like the

00:11:07.160 fantasy make-believe movie that they like.

00:11:09.760 These are people who have no identity.

00:11:12.420 So they have just found one in this make-believe story.

00:11:16.480 Think of the proliferation of communities.

00:11:18.840 Like, everything is a community these days.

00:11:21.380 Whether it's your sexual fetish, there's a community for every sexual fetish.

00:11:27.740 There's a community for every obsession, for every enthusiasm, for every interest, for every

00:11:32.020 hobby.

00:11:33.060 No matter what it is, you're part of a community of people who share that with you.

00:11:38.560 People look for their identity and their shared love for things and experiences and entertainments.

00:11:45.840 And then there's probably the worst symptom of our identity crisis as a culture.

00:11:51.060 Maybe not the worst, but still a pretty bad one.

00:11:53.860 Those who identify themselves primarily and mostly, mainly, first and foremost, as Republican

00:12:00.760 or Democrat.

00:12:02.560 Not that there's anything necessarily wrong with having a party affiliation, although, I mean,

00:12:08.740 increasingly, I do think there's something wrong with it, actually.

00:12:10.820 But I'm not really talking about that.

00:12:12.680 I'm talking about people who have tailored their whole identity, everything they think

00:12:19.680 and believe, according to what the party says or to what a politician says.

00:12:25.380 There's a very common phenomenon these days on both sides of the spectrum of people who,

00:12:30.060 you know, they'll say one thing one day.

00:12:31.420 They'll say the next thing, a totally opposite thing the next.

00:12:34.400 Their principles change by the minute, it seems, according to what their party says, to what

00:12:40.280 their politicians say, to what their talking heads say.

00:12:44.820 They've lost all identity.

00:12:47.640 They are now nothing but a letter, R or D.

00:12:51.160 They have no capacity to think or reason beyond that.

00:12:57.060 Now, this is all wrong, I think.

00:12:58.840 I think if I'm going to have any chance at being a well-rounded, happy person, I need to

00:13:06.600 have a clear understanding of myself, of who I am.

00:13:11.580 I need to have an identity that's rooted in something solid and unchanging.

00:13:16.980 So I have to know first that I'm a human being and that I'm a man.

00:13:23.700 This is the most basic physical form of identity.

00:13:27.260 That's my most basic physical identity, and I've got to know that.

00:13:30.420 That's the starting point.

00:13:31.620 If I can't even get past that, then there's just, there's no hope of me forming any kind

00:13:37.440 of identity whatsoever.

00:13:38.680 So I've got to know that.

00:13:40.000 And then I have to know my identity at sort of a deeper kind of level.

00:13:46.980 I have to know that I'm a child of God.

00:13:50.020 And then I'm a husband.

00:13:52.240 I'm a father.

00:13:54.240 All of these things.

00:13:55.460 This is really my identity.

00:13:56.660 That's my true identity.

00:13:58.100 That's really who I am.

00:13:59.660 So if you were to ask me, who are you?

00:14:03.080 What's your identity?

00:14:05.660 That's what I should say.

00:14:07.120 Before I say anything else, that.

00:14:09.640 And that's kind of the trunk.

00:14:12.680 And those are the roots of my identity.

00:14:14.740 That's the roots and the trunk.

00:14:16.980 And then from there, all the little branches and twigs and leaves and everything, those

00:14:23.100 are all the kind of superficial things that are also part of who I am, but they don't

00:14:28.540 matter that much.

00:14:30.480 So I'm a Ravens fan.

00:14:32.040 I like to read books written by dead Russian guys. 1.00

00:14:35.840 Okay.

00:14:36.640 I make a mean pot of chili.

00:14:39.100 I like Five Guys.

00:14:40.300 It's the best fast food restaurant.

00:14:41.800 That's not going to be debated, by the way.

00:14:43.220 I'll do a separate video on that some other time.

00:14:45.240 So those are all things, right?

00:14:46.480 Those are all, those are all, in a sense, part of who I am, but they don't matter that

00:14:50.980 much.

00:14:51.440 And those are the branches, the leaves, the twigs.

00:14:53.940 You could come and chop those off.

00:14:55.280 Those could fall off.

00:14:56.160 They could, they could change, um, you know, they, and it doesn't matter.

00:15:01.260 It won't change who I am.

00:15:03.060 I'll continue along being the same sort of person because my identity is rooted in something

00:15:09.340 more solid, more real, more eternal than just my interests and my affiliations and my

00:15:15.100 proclivities.

00:15:15.640 I think a lot of people today are, they don't have roots and they don't have a trunk.

00:15:23.560 They're just a bunch of branches and twigs and leaves.

00:15:28.260 I think there are a lot of leaves being blown around, detached and weightless and helpless

00:15:35.260 because they have no identity.

00:15:38.120 A person who identifies themselves first and foremost by some interest of theirs or some

00:15:47.160 proclivity.

00:15:49.140 That's just a leaf.

00:15:50.460 That person is nothing.

00:15:51.460 They've reduced themselves to just a leaf laying on the ground and they can easily be blown

00:15:57.060 away.

00:15:58.280 Second thing.

00:15:58.860 So we need to know who we are.

00:16:00.420 Um, and then we need to know our purpose.

00:16:04.860 You know, we need purpose.

00:16:06.160 We need some idea as to why we are here.

00:16:11.040 Even if I know who I am, now I need to know why I am and where I'm going.

00:16:19.960 And this deep desire for purpose and for meaning, that's what separates us from animals.

00:16:25.880 Your cat doesn't consider these questions.

00:16:28.280 Your cat never sits around thinking, what, what, what am I?

00:16:31.460 Why am I?

00:16:32.160 Where's all this headed?

00:16:33.920 The cat doesn't think that.

00:16:34.720 Cat doesn't think anything.

00:16:36.740 You just, your cat just wants to eat, use the litter box, whatever, knock your drinks

00:16:41.460 over.

00:16:42.200 That's all your cat wants to do.

00:16:43.280 It doesn't think about anything else.

00:16:44.460 That's what separates us from animals.

00:16:46.660 It's also what, what separates us from machines.

00:16:49.480 I know atheists will talk about people as if we're just a bunch of biological machines.

00:16:53.500 They'll talk about us as if we are computers covered in skin, basically.

00:16:57.640 But even the most advanced computer in the world doesn't desire meaning.

00:17:02.660 Even the most advanced computer in the world could never want to be anything more than a

00:17:07.580 computer.

00:17:08.420 It can't conceive of anything else.

00:17:11.340 Computer has no desires whatsoever. 0.90

00:17:13.200 And can never develop them.

00:17:16.840 I know science fiction, we like to think about, well, what if a computer ever becomes self-aware?

00:17:20.860 It will never happen.

00:17:21.800 It's impossible.

00:17:22.520 It cannot happen.

00:17:24.260 Now we, we want to be something more than flesh and bone.

00:17:30.440 And I think even some of the struggle with, some of the struggles with identity, people

00:17:35.320 wanting to change their gender and so forth, some of that I think is rooted in a real, true

00:17:43.720 and healthy desire that we all have to be more than what we physically are.

00:17:50.120 It's just that they have missed, they have wildly misdirected those desires.

00:17:55.740 But there is a fundamental desire there.

00:17:57.700 C.S. Lewis points to this as proof of God.

00:18:01.320 He points out that nature would never, on its own, create in itself a desire for something

00:18:08.480 beyond itself.

00:18:10.880 If we are nothing but the result of natural processes, we never would have developed the

00:18:15.840 ability to think about those processes or analyze them or be skeptical of them or question

00:18:20.840 them or pine for something beyond them.

00:18:23.360 C.S. Lewis says that, you know, the fact that I, that I desire something beyond this world

00:18:29.980 means that I was made for something beyond this world.

00:18:35.480 If there really is no God in the universe, I never would have found out that there is no

00:18:39.700 God because I wouldn't have the consciousness to know that there is no God.

00:18:42.160 So there's clearly some other component to the human person.

00:18:49.120 There's something else in us, something immaterial, something that can't be grasped, something that

00:18:54.960 can't be seen and thus could never be transferred or programmed into a computer.

00:19:01.000 And that thing is consciousness, self-awareness, the capacity to make moral choices, the ability

00:19:09.500 to recognize and appreciate beauty, the ability to love our souls.

00:19:17.100 In other words, that's the thing.

00:19:19.200 That's the, that's the, the extra component that we have.

00:19:21.840 We have eternal souls and it's our souls that crave for truth and meaning and purpose beyond

00:19:28.540 just this physical life.

00:19:30.460 Our culture may tell us, well, live in the moment.

00:19:34.700 You got to just live in the moment, enjoy the moment.

00:19:38.300 But nobody lives in the moment.

00:19:41.240 Nobody just enjoys the moment.

00:19:44.120 Nobody can.

00:19:45.000 In fact, the only people who really live in the moment are the people who are in absolute

00:19:51.780 despair and are on the edge of suicide.

00:19:55.620 A person right before committing suicide, that is a person living in the moment.

00:20:01.780 That's what living in the moment looks like.

00:20:04.340 It looks like dying because that's what it is.

00:20:08.740 So really live in the moment is to despair of anything else but this moment.

00:20:15.760 But those of us who are not at that point, we know that there's more to life than that.

00:20:21.880 And we have always this sensation of movement.

00:20:28.460 We know that we're rushing towards something, towards tomorrow.

00:20:34.320 You know, there's always another night, always another morning just around the corner.

00:20:39.040 Then a year and then 10 years.

00:20:40.460 And we know that we're just barreling, we're barreling at breakneck speed towards something,

00:20:47.140 towards death.

00:20:50.800 And then something.

00:20:52.960 So, yeah, we should enjoy the journey.

00:20:55.580 But our enjoyment of the journey really hinges quite significantly on what we are journeying

00:21:01.780 towards, doesn't it?

00:21:02.800 I remember when our twins were born and they were our first kids and they were born premature

00:21:10.900 and there were health complications and they had some breathing trouble.

00:21:16.140 So they had to immediately be whisked away up to the NICU.

00:21:20.500 And I remember when the nurses came down to get me and bring me up to the NICU to meet our children.

00:21:29.680 And I remember everything about that moment.

00:21:32.740 I remember walking through the hallway.

00:21:36.020 I remember the hallway.

00:21:37.780 I remember the elevator.

00:21:39.720 I remember the sights and sounds and smells.

00:21:42.680 I remember everything.

00:21:44.600 I remember even how it, what it felt like, the temperature in the building.

00:21:48.140 And at that time, there was joy mixed with a lot of fear and anxiety and everything else.

00:21:55.780 But looking back on it now, it's all joy to me now.

00:21:59.980 I remember it as joy.

00:22:03.400 Even that walk down the hallway.

00:22:06.100 I remember that walk down the hallway as a moment of joy.

00:22:13.600 It was a kind of very short journey to my new life as a parent.

00:22:21.100 And my point is that the journey was joyful, was joy, because the end was joy.

00:22:30.820 Because I was going towards something joyful.

00:22:33.540 I was heading towards a new life.

00:22:35.640 But what if I had been walking down a hospital hallway?

00:22:41.420 What if instead of walking down a hospital hallway to greet my newborn children,

00:22:47.440 what if I was walking down that hallway to say goodbye to a dying child?

00:22:53.080 Could you tell me to enjoy that journey?

00:22:56.340 Could you tell me to live in that moment?

00:22:59.400 No, I don't want to live in that moment.

00:23:00.760 I'd rather die in that moment.

00:23:03.320 But you can't say that because I know where the journey ends in that case.

00:23:07.500 I know where it's leading.

00:23:08.620 And it's leading to despair and death and just emotional ruin.

00:23:12.140 So there's no way to enjoy that journey.

00:23:15.940 There's no way to live in that moment without dying in it.

00:23:20.100 The point is that our ability to enjoy the moment and to enjoy the journey

00:23:26.080 depends very much on the end, on the destination.

00:23:32.800 If we believe or we've told ourselves that the destination is eternal nothingness,

00:23:40.740 if we believe that we're hurtling towards obliteration and the cessation of our being,

00:23:47.440 then what joy can there really be in life?

00:23:50.720 How could you possibly enjoy life?

00:23:54.200 Especially a life that unavoidably is going to involve so much suffering and sadness.

00:24:01.120 And suddenly, in that case, it all becomes a cruel joke.

00:24:04.400 Our consciousness, our ability to understand the joke,

00:24:07.680 is itself the worst joke of all.

00:24:10.480 Nature, in that case, has put all the creatures on the earth,

00:24:13.500 on a path to decay and final death.

00:24:17.500 And the obliteration of their beings and their essence.

00:24:23.900 But then it gave human beings the knowledge of this fact.

00:24:31.440 And if that's the case, then we got the raw deal, didn't we?

00:24:37.040 We should look with envy on beasts and bugs.

00:24:40.480 Because at least they could just live their lives and not think about it.

00:24:47.200 But this idea that nature created consciousness in a human being,

00:24:52.560 just so that we could spend our lives dwelling on the nothingness and pointlessness

00:24:57.860 of the very existence that it granted us.

00:25:00.560 I mean, that view of life is just, it is pure, unadulterated, black despair. 0.97

00:25:11.040 That's what that is.

00:25:11.680 That's what that view of life is.

00:25:12.880 And if you look at life that way, you know, you look at bugs and dogs and cats,

00:25:18.620 and you might think, I'd like to be one of them, but you can never be them.

00:25:22.060 But it's very hard for us to live with the knowledge of the futility of our existence

00:25:27.940 and the pointlessness of it.

00:25:30.000 And so then we begin to think that maybe the second best alternative

00:25:33.440 is just to get it over with already.

00:25:35.220 That's the result of a life lived without a sense of purpose or destination.

00:25:42.620 But if we embrace our true purpose, if we come to believe in that destination

00:25:52.120 and the God who created us for it, if we know our meaning and our purpose and our identity,

00:26:02.920 and our substance, then we've opened ourselves up to the potential for joy and hope.

00:26:14.640 I think that's the only way.

00:26:18.700 That's the only way to live as a person.

00:26:21.140 It's also the only way to function as a society and as a culture

00:26:24.300 is with that sense of meaning and purpose.

00:26:29.300 And the great thing is that to have this sense of identity and purpose,

00:26:37.420 it not only is the best path to joy, it's also the only path to truth.

00:26:43.220 It's also true.

00:26:46.360 It's even, I would say, self-evidently true 0.86

00:26:49.400 that there is more to life than just, there's more to me than just this.

00:26:54.480 The very fact that I can contemplate this and wonder about it

00:27:01.760 and thirst for something more is proof that there is more.

00:27:09.080 Because nature would not create a desire which is doomed to just be eternally frustrated.

00:27:16.460 That doesn't make any sense.

00:27:18.040 That's not in keeping with the Darwinian theory of things.

00:27:21.160 So, it's best we become more functional and more joyful

00:27:26.560 when we have identity and purpose.

00:27:28.280 And it's also true that we have identity and purpose.

00:27:30.240 So, that's, I think, the really good news here.

00:27:33.340 That is the good news, right, in the entire universe.

00:27:36.820 That's the good news, is that there's more than this.

00:27:41.660 All right.

00:27:42.220 Thanks for watching, everybody.

00:27:43.080 Thanks for listening.

00:27:44.260 Godspeed.

00:27:44.620 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - June 15, 2018

Ep. 51 - We Have Ceased To See The Purpose

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