Even 'There Is No Point' Is Still a Conclusion
We can notice that we add meaning to experience and then make a final move. Fine, we say. Then there is no meaning. There is no point.
But that statement is still a conclusion. It is still language applied to what is happening.
The insight is easy to lose because negation feels like subtraction. We remove one interpretation and assume what remains is interpretation-free. Often we have simply installed the opposite interpretation.
This does not prove that life has a point. It does not prove that life has none. It reveals the speed with which the mind turns an opening into another settled position. Meaning-making can include the claim that meaning is absent. Skepticism can become doctrine. Emptiness can become another thing we insist is true.
A more disciplined inquiry leaves the conclusion unfinished long enough to notice the move. What is happening before I decide what it means? And what am I adding when I say even that it means nothing?