The inconsequential is irrelevant.
That which is not transcendent is classified as inconsequential . According to the Royal Spanish Academy ( RAE ), the idea can also be mentioned as inconsequential .
The transcendent or transcendent, in turn, is what manages to transcend or transcend: to transcend something, to extend itself, to become known . When something does not have this capacity or virtue, it is classified as inconsequential.
For example: “It was an inconsequential discussion that does not deserve much analysis or justify an explanation,” “The Nigerian player had an inconsequential time with the Spanish team and then triumphed in the Italian league,” “I wasted the entire morning in an inconsequential meeting with my boss.”
The inconsequential, something of little relevance
Generally, the inconsequential is linked to the unimportant or relevant . Suppose that, as part of an investigation into a missing teenager, the police question her neighbor, who would be the last person who had contact with the young woman. The woman claims that she ran into her as she was leaving her house and had a brief, inconsequential chat about the weather. With these words, the neighbor highlights that the content of the conversation was irrelevant, which is why she does not provide anything concrete about the disappearance.
Let us now take the case of a basketball player who was part of an NBA franchise for one season. In that time, he only entered the field of play in 5 games, without scoring points. It can be indicated, therefore, that this basketball player had an inconsequential participation in the NBA , since he did not manage to stand out on an individual level nor was he important for his team.
An inconsequential conversation revolves around trivial issues without depth.
Unimportant conversations
Inconsequential conversations are those that touch on topics of little relevance. However, they are the ones that abound in our daily lives. Except for exceptional cases of people who dedicate their entire day to research and do not think about banal issues, most people thread their activities with talks about the weather, the government, prices, etc.
But this does not mean that an inconsequential conversation has no importance: if it were not for this exchange, most people would live isolated, without friends or a partner. No matter how much the human being believes himself to be superior to the rest of the species, he shares with them most of his fundamental tastes: he wants to be happy, have fun, play, eat well, have friends, fall in love, enjoy nature... For all this, he cannot It is not necessary to go to university or a high-ranking job, but to be in contact with our essence, with our senses and with our primary needs .
From the inconsequential to the transcendent
In the commercial field, companies in almost all sectors carry out a task that we do not always perceive on a conscious level: turning even the inconsequential into transcendental matters . Every day we are inundated with news of all kinds, in a proportion that does not seem realistic, precisely because it is not. Not everything we read is relevant; In fact, many times it is not even true. But this does not matter to companies, their goal is to get our views and our loyalty .
If we think about the journalistic reality of the 1980s, for example, when paper magazines and newspapers still reigned since the Internet did not exist, the news reached us with a much greater frequency, in a much smaller proportion. This doesn't mean that they didn't mislead us or exaggerate inconsequential events to make them seemingly relevant, but at least that they didn't feel the pressure to do this on a daily basis.
In short, we live in an era characterized by information overload and it is enough to apply logic for a couple of seconds to understand that much of it is inconsequential.