The meaning of life (again)

This update is late because I was arguing with my friend Yang about the meaning of life. Her views are just so ridiculously socially radical that I couldn’t tear myself away. She basically argued that we should intend to help society as much as possible and that because of this, early retirement is a bad thing. The problem with her argument, however, is that it would imply that you would have to live in poverty, have no children, and donate all of your paychecks to your cause. She, she amended her argument to having a “threshold” for leisure, where some leisure is justified but other leisure is not. However, creating thresholds for leisure is hypocritical and cannot justify her initial argument. Besides, different people would have different thresholds for leisure, so it cannot be objectively decided.

I slept through my history class today. This was a great disappointment, as I had gone to all of my classes up to now. Still, it’s not too bad – the professor basically lectures from the book.