Unveiling Truths Amid Chaos: Ed Simon’s Radical Take on Writing in the Apocalypse
In writing for meaning, Simon invokes Victor Frankl, who survived the Nazi concentration camps and went on to publish the bestseller Man’s Search for Meaning. Frankl set up a psychological practice around logotherapy: finding meaning in the world to help us make sense of our lives and give us purpose. Simon argues that we could do the same, recognizing the beauty inherent in the end of days, just as the concentration camp prisoners revelled in a beautiful sunset one evening in the camp. “Meaning is creative work,” Simon writes. “But searching for transcendence becomes even more imperative when facing the apocalypse.”
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