latest weasel bullshit?

[cathyw]

"what is the point of learning something for learning's sake? if you don't either apply the knowledge or teach it to someone else aren't you wasting your time?"

as a more specific iteration of "you are doing nothing but entertaining yourself until you die, how pointless"

and possibly also "you will never have grandchildren, who exactly are you planning to pass the family history, recipes, traditions, etc. down to?"

and really ultimately "what is even the point of you? why bother? you're just converting oxygen into carbon dioxide and we don't need any more carbon dioxide in this world."

and I don't know how to work with this; I can reject the weasels' premise that I need to have a point, a meaning, and a legacy, but the weasels do not do so and they have been persistent this week.

and my pdoc's office is not answering my emails.

ETA: picked up phone. called pdoc. pdoc has a policy of not answering emails. :\ but I have an appointment and hopefully he will put in a refill for me immediately.