How does the question of immortality and the good/meaningful life rate to being towards death and eternal recurrence? Of the same is probably important. Maybe blanchot is relevant.
Unusual ways of evaluating how good your life is. Eternal recurrence of the same of course. But also imagining yourself (or just believing lol) you don’t have long to live and asking yourself what if you had one more copy of a day. Or you lived a day knowing that to be the case (being towards death basically) this is kinda like saying your preferences don’t just have to be informed to count, the relevant true beliefs have to be salient to you. If this is true, it’s easier to see why people would prefer one enlightened day to an unenlightened ‘good’ life.
Mood management vs wanting to do stuff before you die is what explains the difference between rewatchers and explorers maybe. This links to popularity of podcasts they’re not leisure they’re mood management.
- Consider: you could watch a film or a TV show or even some YouTube bullshit with a friend or romantic partner, but never a podcast. Podcasts are only consumed alone. (Sam Kriss)
- Horror Vacui of empty time re; the popularity of podcasts