RE: Your view on Existentialism as a philosophy
August 8, 2024 at 1:47 pm
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2024 at 1:51 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I don't personally feel any anxiety about living - but I do think that it's probably true that a broad swath of meaning and purpose isn't "out there" and has to be created and maintained by a person individually.
Were it not so, we'd still be in the trees - life as it came to us was not sufficient and the first indications of that are in our toolmaking and culture. At some point we started coming across fields and thinking "this is trash, there should be a city here, with buildings taller than any mountain full of caves with more amenities than would ever be found in nature." As a species, imo, we couldn't telegraph our dissatisfaction with things as they are/were any harder than we do. Thankfully, we live in a world of possibilities..where we can make new things that didn't exist before and satisfy whatever that gap might be. Hell...that's why we manufactured all these gods, too.
Were it not so, we'd still be in the trees - life as it came to us was not sufficient and the first indications of that are in our toolmaking and culture. At some point we started coming across fields and thinking "this is trash, there should be a city here, with buildings taller than any mountain full of caves with more amenities than would ever be found in nature." As a species, imo, we couldn't telegraph our dissatisfaction with things as they are/were any harder than we do. Thankfully, we live in a world of possibilities..where we can make new things that didn't exist before and satisfy whatever that gap might be. Hell...that's why we manufactured all these gods, too.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
