#23 - An anthropologist talks about the meaning of life
In this episode, I read a fragment of a letter by Margaret Mead. It isn't strictly a poem even though it reads like one. It is a letter she wrote to her soulmate about a dream she had about the meaning of life. This is a complex question and no one yet has "solved" it even though many have tried. I suspect this is so because there are either as many meanings as people alive, or none at all. We are all stumbling our way through living, facing this question at different points in time, with incomplete access both into the nature of the universe and the nature of the mind to guide us to an answer. What I am interested in is why does this question arise at all. That is my pursuit. Meanwhile, Margaret has an excellent perspective on this, one that she covers in the piece I read today. I read from the Brain Pickings website - https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/02/25/margaret-mead-meaning-of-life/ The host, Ravneet Bawa as - @one_third_above on Instagram @maikeya on Twitter Email: ravneet_bawa@icloud.com Disclaimer: This podcast is created for sharing with friends and family, and only as a passion project amidst the Covid lockdown with no commercial interest. In all episodes I read from sources on the public internet or copies of books I possess. The commentary is all my own. https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/02/25/margaret-mead-meaning-of-life/