What is the meaning of life if you are not exceptional in any way, if you do not look exceptional...

I mean I appreciate the compliment, but I'm just street trash.

If life had no meaning outside of the exceptional, then life has no meaning for most. That concept defies life itself. The exceptional is specifically defined by the existence of unexceptional. Exceptional can't have meaning if unexceptional doesn't.

This is similar to those who think there needs to be bad to appreciate the good.

No. Existence doesn't need a counterpoint to have meaning. You don't need to have evil to have good, you merely need to know evil is a possibility. You don't need to be exceptional. You need to be sufficient. You can know and strive for exceptional. That is how you get better.

That guy's a hippie, I'm more of a STEM person, but there's never been a thing to do with scientific discovery that's slipped through people's fingers.

So 'hippie bullshit' is inevitable. So are like either simple planting or simple farming.
It has to happen at some point, but it's important, so it's reality; it's then just a way for someone to solve things.

>Non-scaleable
You're making yourself look pretty daft right now.

Well, I just hope your generation proves me wrong. I'd genuinely be very happy to be wrong on this one.

I suppose I have to admit that culture (as in hippy BS) does influence the funding for the sciences - so it's not all bad.

But, I definitely think that every 10000 people protesting is eclipsed in value by that one guy getting a degree and actually taking personal responsibility for finding future solutions through STEM.

Anyway, I did my part with all that stuff in the past. Avoided having kids and don't drive. I like to think my environmental footprint is pretty insignificant.

Blah blah. Rambling old cynical fart that I am.
You guys have to live in the future, so I wish you well with fixing the problems, I'll be gone by then.

Permaculture isn't scaleable. But if you have a plan to feed China, in a manner at the very least equivalent to what they are accustomed (and ideally betteR) via permaculture... please feel free to share it.

this is the meaning of your life OP

But what if the meaning of life is to search for the meaning of life?

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You can be to yourself. People bitch about the concept of snowflakes, but the truth is that there are so many variables that go into a human''s creation that we are all unique. Try and find what is good or bad about how you are unique, and work to make the good shine while buffing away the bad.