O.G. Rose | Belonging Again (Part 49) by O.G. Rose @O.G.Rose.Michelle.and.Daniel | Uploaded March 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
At this point, I think we must consider the difference between “meaning” and “belonging,” which though remarkably similar are not identical. It seems to be the case that all belonging entails meaning, but not all meaning entails belonging, even though “the feeling of having meaning” can be identified as “the feeling of having belonging.” Feelings do not tell us what they mean, and so we must decide what we are feeling in the experience of that feeling, and we can call belonging “meaning” and meaning “belonging,” contributing to confusion. Basically, the discovery of ways to generate meaning for individuals will not guarantee the reestablishment of sociological conditions necessary for belonging, and unless meaning and belonging are regained together, “meaning-making practices” will easily only contribute to atomization, tribalization, a loss of “shared intelligibility,” and the like...

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