Short video in a new series by Brendan. I’d invite others here to match Brendan’s autobiographic approach to illustrating the meaning crisis. (I’ll post a model reply below). That would include anyone whose life experience causes them to doubt the basis for the term “meaning crisis”. If that is the case, I’d be very curious to hear about it!
In contrast to Brendan, I was not overly burdened with any imposed parental framework for meaning-making. If anything, I was a bit under-supplied in that department. However, the title of Robert Kegan’s work In Over Our heads resonates for me quite a bit. That really speaks to my experience in late high school through graduate school. I was truly overwhelmed by all the options on offer in what then were the early days of the postmodern epoch.
My current work is what my 20-something self would have liked to have heard from an elder who could provide some sort of a roadmap to the vast complexity of contemporary society. Some of the more useful features of what I did gather from sympathetic elders in the '70s and '80s are retained in that current work.