Thanks. I am interested in naturalizing existentialism, or in cutting through the overcomplicated phenomenological formulations.

I think it would be a little naive, though, to emphasize truth as the crucial component of civilized progress. Since Plato, at least, the Western tradition has had a dual, elitist theory of truth. There's the unvarnished truth for intellectual elites and social outsiders, and there are the noble lies and feel-good stories for the masses who "can't handle" the full truth. Eastern traditions have even more explicit formulations of this double truth doctrine.

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/the-uncomplicated-core-of-existentialism-e3288045bec2?sk=9366e31f0b7aea8728f01ee571204f21

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/why-personal-authenticity-still-matters-fd1d3d21ecc4?sk=cad3819658370d0f9132c00ae544af06

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/how-to-be-existentially-mature-in-an-infantile-society-917255a385d6?sk=1c90f05c4f985e1432c94ca76ed252c0

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/stories-are-our-shields-against-lifes-absurdity-311e15d6a9a4?sk=6ac8e22328688f13626d425bb483c434

https://medium.com/the-apeiron-blog/saturated-in-fiction-consensus-reality-as-a-web-of-stories-485d6e00f7e7?source=friends_link&sk=a398071fd9f19826fcae2157f85d4474