Thought For The Day: Noam Chomsky

The meaning of life is what you make of it. Life does not have any meaning apart from that, for a human, a dog, a bacterium, or anything else. It is up to you what the meaning of your life is. So, it is partially under your control.

If someone were to say “Life is just a bowl of cherries?”

If that is the way you want to look at life, fine. If you decide your life is maximization of goods, then that is the meaning of life. We can have sympathy for you, but that is what it is. If you decide that your life is friendship, love, mutual aid, mutual support, a community of people who try to increase their own and other people’s happiness and welfare, then that is the meaning of life. But there is no external force that decides.

From a Q&A of questions 'mostly posed by younger folks' aged 12-20. Via ZNet.

And here's a free PDF download of Uncle Noam's What Is The Common Good?

The puzzling Chomsky quote in the image is from the new film Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy?