[b]Existential Comics
First base: talking about Sartre.
Second base: talking about Heidegger.
Third base: talking about Hegel.
Home run: admitting you’ve only read the Wikipedia pages.[/b]
You wouldn’t think so, would you?
[b]There are actually only four genres of music:
- Songs about love.
- Songs about depression.
- Songs about shipwrecks.
- “Immigrant Song”, by Led Zeppelin, which is its own genre.[/b]
I can think of a few more.
[b]There are three main categories of existence:
- Things that exist, like dogs.
- Things that only exist in the mind, like Clifford the Big Red Dog.
- Things that don’t exist at all, like good billionaires.[/b]
I can think of a few more.
When you are 15 you think no one gets you.
When you are 20 you realize you don’t even get yourself.
When you are 30 you realize there just isn’t that much to get.
When you are 60? Let’s not go there…
How to overcome your existential despair:
Kierkegaard: embrace faith in God.
Nietzsche: embrace your own will.
Camus: embrace sleeping with as many actresses as possible.
Camus, clearly.
You can’t really trust someone who isn’t serious about anything, but someone who is serious about everything is far worse.
Not to mention the other way around.