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The case for failure
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Nietzsche's Riff on Sand Castles
Nietzsche said you can gauge someone's relationship to time by looking at how they build a sand castle. One guy will bitch about the fact that the waves are just going to come wash it away, right? And another guy, well, he won't even build it at all because why the hell would you bother?" He builds anyway and with a smile on his face. That is supposed to be this kind of paragon of what it is to like live an affirmative life. You know that annihilation is the ultimate endpoint for all of us,. But you still go on, you still throw yourself into the world despite it.
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