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One thing about living in a psychological era is that few people give credence or value to a philosophical perspective. In our period, despairing of finding any meaning in life is rarely considered a sincerely held worldview; no, it is a sickness that needs to be cured.
-- Daniel Klein, Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It (2015)
And another quote from just a few pages on in the same book:
I also remember seeing attractive Sorbonne students in Paris cafes shrugging with soulful resignation and intoning, "Je m'en fous," a fashionable phrase of the day that meant, roughly, "Not only do I not give a shit, but it wouldn't make any difference if I did."
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