Keiran King this Wednesday: There's no deeper meaning to life — deal with it
Published:Tuesday | July 29, 2014 | 7:06 PM
In his online column at www.jamaica-gleaner.com on Wednesday, July 30, Keiran King demystifies the twin concepts of life and death.
He writes: "The truth is, we are nothing more or less than rearranged stardust, a cosmic hiccup, the arbitrary result of billions of years of evolution, with an assist from a handful of meteors. We are weaker than the horse, slower than the dog, more fragile than the cow and more fussy than the pig. Yet we have domesticated them all with our overinflated brains."
King, a producer who has written and acted in several plays, explores just why we are obsessed with the meaning of life from the cradle to the grave. The anxiety, he says, is useless and self-defeating.
He argues in his latest column: "We're desperate for our lives to mean something. We’re so desperate for meaning we’re willing to graft it on to our bruised psyches. We'll believe preposterous claims without any evidence, if doing so transforms our random experiences ... ."
Don't miss Keiran King's commentary on Wednesday in the online edition of The Jamaica Gleaner.
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