The Pervasive Despair of the Modern Day

And how to find meaning in the madness

Jared Barlament
4 min readJan 16

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photo by Gadiel Lazcano on Unsplash

Someone opened up to me recently about their struggles with finding a sense of purpose in life. They expressed a long list of different reasons why life, as it is today set up by a longer list of outdated and openly hostile institutions that have not and will not allow themselves to be reformed, is not worth living.

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Jared Barlament

Columbia University undergrad studying archaeology and philosophy. Writer trying to say something of interest every once in a while.