Q: If nothing matters what is the point of doing anything?

A: You’re not asking about the point of doing anything; you’re asking how to keep pretending something matters now that you see it doesn’t. The question comes from the self’s survival reflex. The self runs on matter, significance, purpose, progress. When you see through those illusions, the system panics. Meaninglessness feels like death because, for the false self, it is.

This questions translates to: “If there’s no meaning left to cling to, who am I without the story of meaning itself?”

The assumption this question smuggles in is that life must justify itself to you. That existence needs to provide a reason for your continued participation. That’s the child-self demanding that reality continue to entertain and comfort it.

But what’s actually happening is the scaffolding of the dream is cracking. Meaning is evaporating not because something’s gone wrong, but because the lens that projected it is dissolving. You’re starting to see what is when the story stops.

During Phase Two: Disruption, the architecture of meaning is collapsing, and the ego, deprived of its fuel source, panics. The self that once found purpose in striving, belonging, and narrative coherence is disoriented. It might feel like nihilism, but it’s actually exposure to reality. You’ve lost faith in the dream but haven’t yet realized that what remains doesn’t need faith.

The forward moving question here becomes, “Who is the one that needs life to have a point?”

That question isn’t about meaning anymore, or the world’s emptiness. it’s about identity and the self’s dependence on illusion to feel real.

So when you sit with that question, you’re not asking the universe to explain itself, you’re exposing the psychological dependency that keeps you bound to it.

In the end, the one who needs a point can’t survive in a pointless universe.