The Meaning is Undermined: How the Information Society Affects V.E. Frankl’s “Attitudinal Values”
I don’t intend to stoke anxiety. However, this may come across as stressful, so please feel free to ignore it if you don’t have the bandwidth right now. The world isn’t ending today or tomorrow, after all. Einstellungswerte is V.E. Frankl’s term. As logotherapy demonstrates, I deeply respect him as someone who possessed not only understanding of meaning but also the capacity to perceive beauty. Our civilization progresses through repeated cycles of “technological revolution → social transformation → power systems → institutional responses.” For example, the Industrial Revolution concentrated people in cities, leading to epidemics, which gave birth to public health systems. After 30 years of transitioning to internet society since the 1990s,… The Meaning is Undermined: How the Information Society Affects V.E. Frankl’s “Attitudinal Values”