{"id":369,"date":"2026-06-10T21:14:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T21:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pioneerrelocationnews.com\/?p=369"},"modified":"2026-06-10T21:14:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T21:14:27","slug":"why-so-many-people-feel-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pioneerrelocationnews.com\/?p=369","title":{"rendered":"Why So Many People Feel Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><audio>https:\/\/dts.podtrac.com\/redirect.mp3\/d2h6a3ly6ooodw.cloudfront.net\/reasontv_audio_8384391.mp3<\/audio><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<select><option>1x<\/option><option>1.1x<\/option><option>1.25x<\/option><option>1.5x<\/option><option>2x<\/option><option>3x<\/option><\/select>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>:15 <\/span><br \/>\n<span> :15<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Download  <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h4>Why So Many People Feel Lost<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-yt-id=\"a5eHmG7uGh4\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" id=\"yt-player-a5eHmG7uGh4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a5eHmG7uGh4?enablejsapi=1\" title=\"Featured YouTube video\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Human beings are &#8220;creatures <i>of<\/i> matter who long <i>to<\/i> matter,&#8221; says novelist and philosopher Rebecca Goldstein, whose new book is <i><span>The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us<\/span><\/i>. She talks with Nick Gillespie about how all humans struggle to figure out how to lead lives that justify our existence, both in the eyes of others and ourselves, and she describes remarkable cases of people who rescued children discarded during China&#8217;s one-child policy era, atheists who led leper colonies so the afflicted could die with dignity, and former neo-Nazis who seek to reform racist skinheads.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/pioneerrelocationnews.com\/?p=367\">Why Are Republicans and Democrats Abandoning Economic Freedom?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A MacArthur &#8220;genius&#8221; award winner who has taught at Harvard University, New York University, and Rutgers University, among other places, Goldstein has published highly acclaimed novels such as <i>The Mind-Body Problem<\/i> and <i>36 Arguments for the Existence of God,<\/i> and nonfiction works including <i>Plato at the Googleplex<\/i> and <i>Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/pioneerrelocationnews.com\/?p=365\">The Next AI Success Story Might Be Nepal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>The Mattering Instinct <\/i>investigates what happens when inherited authorities\u2014church, state, family, tribe\u2014lose their power to dictate meaning and individuals must fend for themselves, typically employing strategies she calls transcendence, competition, social belonging, and heroic striving. She invokes Friedrich Hayek&#8217;s <span>&#8220;knowledge problem&#8221;<\/span> to illuminate the dispersed and dynamic qualities of how we all create &#8220;mattering projects&#8221;\u2014lives worth living\u2014in a world that offers us more and more choice across virtually all areas of activity. Drawing deeply on the philosophical roots of individualism and liberalism, Goldstein offers a moral psychology of freedom, a way to think about individual dignity, pluralism, and self-authorship without devolving into either nihilism or top-down moralism.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/pioneerrelocationnews.com\/?p=363\">Evidence Destroyed or Lost in Death of ICE Detainee That Was Ruled a Homicide<\/a><\/p>\n<p>0:00\u2014What is the mattering instinct?<\/p>\n<p>4:30\u2014Age, class, and the crisis of meaning<\/p>\n<p>8:46\u2014How do history and technology affect mattering?<\/p>\n<p>10:59\u2014Secularism and mattering<\/p>\n<p>15:00\u2014The four archetypes<\/p>\n<p>27:14\u2014Pursuit of flourishing<\/p>\n<p>32:43\u2014Psychology of freedom<\/p>\n<p>35:43\u2014Frank Meeink<\/p>\n<p>42:50\u2014Lou Xiaoying<\/p>\n<p>51:29\u2014Existential angst<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca Goldstein discusses the search for meaning, the roots of modern discontent, and how people build purpose in a secular age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-philosophy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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