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Ep. 23 - Romanticism

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

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Schopenhauer's Sex Is the Cruel Joke That the Species Plays on the Individual

Schopenhauer saw that once you removed the connection between meaning making and rationality, you pay a very, very devastating price for it. So we're restlessly driven by these eratloo - everything's being drawn into the mind and now drawn into the unconscious, irrational parts. O this is where that arbitrary god has now withdrawn. This is how romanticism as a suito religious psycheology and nihilism as an exicental response become inextricably linked together. Even though most people don't realize it,. These two things are actually deeply intertwined and closely related to each other.

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