Summarize his conclusion about the meaning of life. To paraphrase Paul, the teacher could see but a poor resection as in a mirror. The book of Ecclesiastes is amazingly applicable to the contemporary scene. The author reflected a world with an impersonal view of God. He saw the hopelessness of human existence.
Many modern philosophers reflect such a fatalism.
Nowhere is the authors fatalism more evident than among those today who keep reminding us of the realistic possibility of nuclear annihilation. A Worthwhile Life . Today's media spread the same misconceptions. The end is the same futility. Avoidance of Extremes.