November 28, 2022 at 12:07 PM I like to think that once humans surpassed the basic needs of survival and instead started aiming for feats of 'want' as opposed to 'needs', we ended up becoming content enough to have such existential questions. I rarely ask myself such a question because of my poor living standards and often busy days in attempting to rectify it.
Though on to your central question.
I don't think life has no innate meaning, but I also don't not thing life has no meaning.
It's paradoxical, but I think that's part of what human reality is, paradoxical. Some people often viciously hate authority figures but will call them while in peril because absolutisms aren't really a thing for most humans.
To put it more simply, I think life itself is such an abstract concept that you need to think abstractly to understand that life is simply life. There won't always be an explanation for something, but that doesn't mean it lacks meaning.