“In Post-Modernist thought (the latest incarnation of Naturalism), staying relevant literally is your purpose in life. This is because they believe that we have no intrinsic value. We are just cosmic dust that forms and goes back to dust for our next iteration as a continuous line of repurposed matter.”
I’ve unwittingly lost friends for failing to find any substance in that inane worldview. I suppose I made myself “irrelevant”.
>>. I suppose I made myself “irrelevant”.
No, you started out irrelevant and you failed to make yourself relevant (remember that you are just a clump of cosmic dust). Perhaps you had a belief in “the Invisble Sky Fairy” or perhaps you are stuck in some earlier form of Naturalism that you find relevance to be irrelevant. It’s the worldview that they are stuck in. It’s why they trust celebrities, because those people have raised their perceived relevance to such a high level.