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ennui (one of the trendy magazines that never never capitalized the first letter of its name) was the preferred monthly journal of those who preferred to …well you know. Not interested in this or that, they seldom looked forward to their ennui each month, but a subscription just seemed to drag on forever and a day. Lacking any focus in life, getting the subscription stopped was just more than they could focus on, so that wasn’t an option, either. Still published today, each copy of ennui is universally greeted by its subscriber with a “meh” and then tossed onto the coffee table where it gathers dust until someone gets around to just throwing it away.
“And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.” — Edgar Allan Poe. (via deepbreathsanddeath)
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“From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.”
-Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvior is my babe
this is inaccurate. camus asserted that we cannot create real meaning but we can create fictitous meaning in our personal realm so long as we maintain a distance between that notion and any idea of an actual meaning.
the pursuit of inherent meaning is the falsity that camus says to avoid. the pursuit of created meaning is possible, but not if taken as an act of elusion of confronting the absurd.
kierkegaard as a representative of christian existentialism is also odd, he’s more in line with camus and the things in the chart correspond more to somebody like paul tillich.
philosophy is really nuanced. stuff like this is fun occasionally but GO READ SOME BOOKS, world.
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