Let’s be the deeper meaning in human actions

[crickets]

I’m OP. I think I’m cerebral but I come across as a slightly retarded first year Philosophy major.

I'm OP's unaddressed existential angst.

I’m R2 ‘s anal warts.

I read in this (and as always, I read in it what my own filters and forms allow, make, register) a yearning for more meaningful living than the modern circumstance makes possible. More specifically, the digital flattening of our lives. When all is accessible, nothing is accessed with any value. I do think the digital environments are altering (reducing, inhibiting) our frontal lobes. Shortening attention spans, lack of interest, addictions to grievance and reactivity.

In any case, OP, while we are all alone in a journey, you are not "alone."

OP's theory about social media may be on target for people over 40, but I don't think it's necessarily the case for people under 35. I don't think young people are posting to escape thoughts of their mortality. They just want to be envied or get laid.

I’m R6 waiting for OP to stop typing so I can derail their thread with a story about my cousin’s friend who chauffeured a VW bus for Lorne Greene and Janet Maslin

I'm the bowel movement you had this morning and the existential crisis it caused.

I'm R6 and I have no idea who Janet Maslin is.