Externally imposed conditions of suffering do not fully explain existential despair. The will to live does not decrease perfectly in tandem with the rise in suffering. People don’t become shitheads in perfect alignment with the shitheadery to which they’re exposed. There is at least one mediating factor. And I think Frankel is onto something with the idea that meaning makes the difference.
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