I've been going back today over old issues of Rod Dreher's Diary, my subscription-only newsletter about spirituality, and ran across one from 2021, on an idea the philosopher Robert Nozick had. It's ...

Zu viel! Zu viel! O, dass ich nun erwachte! ~ Tannhäuser According to legend, the bard Tannhäuser, on his way to a competition at the Wartburg, was seduced by the goddess Hulda, the consort of Wotan.

The refusal to plug into the experience machine also has implications for discussions on meaning in life. Subjectivist theories of meaning in life hold that our sensation of meaningfulness or other ...