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RE: You’re Going to Die Pretty Soon So Do The Important Stuff Now
Yes! This is the kind of self-help book (the only kind) I would read!
Yes! This is the kind of self-help book (the only kind) I would read!
That’s about the highest compliment you could pay to me. I really appreciate that. I think we share the same distaste for self-help products, although judging by their popularity, I think we’re a small minority.
We are that small minority. Good to meet you, fellow-distaste-having-person.
But in all honesty, this is why I stopped studying psychology and became a philosopher instead.
Haha Crazy Slavoj. Whenever I’m in a bad mood I just watch him spaz out about the philosophy of, like, toilets or comparative phenomenology of tulips and vaginas.
I have too much of a sunny disposition to agree with his metaphysics about existence as a disharmonious state—at least as it comes across on its surface meaning. (Not to go all Strauss on you, but I’m pretty sure a lot of Zizek’s ideas are intended to have deeper esoteric meanings that I’m, frankly, not able to grasp, so he may very well be conveying a positive attitude towards existence).
But he’s always good for getting the old noggin whirring.