
Existential Anxiety
Overthink
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Is There a Right Answer?
There is a fundamental tension between the commitment to country and the commitment to his mother. The boy needs to choose which of those commitments he wants to make. Even if he goes to a priest for advice, he is making the choice to go to a priest rather than going to somebody else for advice. And the point here is that there is no right answer. I don't know. I haven't tried out that algaritm that was recommended to me at that party. Mine always spits out, stay with ma haatoacross, half way across the world from your mother. Well, true. But one of the things that makes the analysis so powerful in exestentialism
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