I never tire of going over the same ground here myself. Not regarding that which I construe to be [by far] the most important philosophical question of all: How ought one to live?
As a Christian? As an Objectivist? As a Marxist? As a socialist? As a social democrat? As a liberal? As an existentialist? As a nihilist?
That’s been my own particular path. And, with so much at stake [both before and after the grave], I don’t imagine I will ever stop asking it. Or asking others for their own answers.
And, no, I don’t enjoy being in the hole at all.
If you won’t or can’t take any action to get out, then you might as well enjoy the hole. It’s not entirely without its positive points.
Here, of course, you have no idea what particular options are available to me. There’s that ever widening gap between what I’d like to do and what I am actually able to. Besides, there are literally hundreds upon hundreds of folks out there all clamoring to insist that you do what they do.
Then the part where “out in the world” they intertwine the components of their own success stories in the components of mine. And note how with respect to the existential relationship between identity, value judgments and political economy, they are not in the hole I’m in.
I’m just grappling to understand how that might be done — given the manner in which I have managed to convince myself that [philosophically or otherwise] it doesn’t seem really possible at all.
Summed up in song as : “If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with.”
As a “general description” that can be a comforting option indeed. Until you start in on who there actually is to love under what set of circumstances given the options that are realistically available to you. And [of course] the reactions of others less inclined to see the circumstances as you do.
Let alone imagining “serious philosophers” grappling with it such that “technically” a frame of mind can be attained said to be the obligation of all rational people to embrace. If only theoretically.
And, from my point of view, in a No God world.