[b]Existential Comics
Optimist: the glass is half full.
Pessimist: the glass is half empty.
Communist: the bourgeoisie robbed the noble worker of half his glass![/b]
You know, if there are still any Communists around.
And then Jacques Derrida was like, “everything is just opinions and stuff”, which created Postmodernism and destroyed society as we know it.
All that meme shit, right Satyr?
Freedom is:
Hume: acting according to the will.
Mill: the lack of constraints.
Kant: always following all the rules, surprisingly enough.
No, really, what is freedom?
Imagine a world where millions paid to watch the greatest intellectuals in a mental boxing match: rational debate.
In other words, Mr. Objectivist knocked out in the first round. A TKO probably.
[b]Things that keep the existential dread at bay:
- Love
- Art
- Friendship
- Passionately arguing over the most pointless shit imaginable[/b]
And [admittedly] not just the Kids.
Epistemology in:
Germany: the thing-in-itself is unknowable
France: knowledge is socially constructed
America: the customer is always right
And even when he’s wrong he can always be pardoned.