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Moral Philosophy (PHIL 181)
Yale University
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Yale's introductory moral philosophy course (PHIL 181), taught as video lectures through Open Yale Courses, surveys how philosophers have answered questions about living well and flourishing. Lectures cover topics such as attachment, detachment, and utility-based accounts of the good life.
Commenters recommend it as a useful survey of how philosophers have addressed meaning and flourishing, with one pointing to the lecture on detachment and another urging viewers to watch the whole series.
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People have been thinking about this stuff for a long time. Here's a partial compilation of the answers - https://oyc.yale.edu/philosophy/phil-181 click sessions - lecture 12 for utility oriented story - but I would recommend going through the whole series, cause depending on life situations you get thrown into, it will help to see what other stories people have told themselves that have helped them flourish.
What you are talking about is info overload and break down of "shared stories" as content explodes faster than there are people or time to consume it all. In Economics they will tell you what happens when Supply drastically overshoots Demand. But economics is too young and immature a field to tell you how to find meaning and how "to fit or be useful".
For that you need the Philosophy or Religion.
So here is a useful lecture from an actual Philosopher on Detachment and Flourishing cause "there is no obligation to fit or be useful or understand everything" - https://oyc.yale.edu/philosophy/phil-181/lecture-8
If you are the type who feels the need to fit - go through the previous lecture on Attachment and Flourishing.