I don’t normally respond to shallow dismissals, but in this case my TL;DR is indeed a fair rephrasing of his conclusion. Emphasis added:

> *Chesterton’s answer to the semantic apocalypse is to will yourself out of it.* If you can’t enjoy My Neighbor Totoro after seeing too many Ghiblified photos, *that’s a skill issue.* Keep watching sunsets until each one becomes as beautiful as the first (the secret is that the innumerable company of the heavenly host sings in a slightly different key each time).

> I support Erik Hoel’s crusade to chart some society-level solution to the semantic apocalypse problem. You’re not allowed to say “skill issue” to society-level problems, because some people won’t have the skill; that’s why they invented the word “systemic”. *But your personal relationship to the meaning in your life is not a society-level problem.* While Erik Hoel works on the systemic issue, you should be thinking of your own individual soul.

> *If you insist that anything too common, anything come by too cheaply, must be boring, then all the wonders of the Singularity cannot save you.* You will grow weary of green wine and sick of crimson seas. But if you can bring yourself to really pay attention, to see old things for the first time, then you can combine the limitless variety of modernity with the awe of a peasant seeing an ultramarine mural - or the delight of a 2025er Ghiblifying photos for the first time.