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142. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Existentialism)

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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I'm Going On, I Said to Myself, to Become an Old Man Without Being Anything

Kirkegard, writing at a little earlier on but along the similar, a similar track of ideas, also criticising the idea of utopia. The meaning in life is to be found within the struggle that con tutes life, and not in the solution to that struggle,. which maybe is equivalent to death and not to utopia. It is about four years ago that i got the notion of wanting to try my luck as an author. I remember it quite clearly. It was a sunday, yes a sunday afternoon. So i sat there and i smoked his cigar until i lapsed into thought. Among other thoughts, i said to myself, to become an old man without...

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