[FRIAM] the Skeptical Meme

[Eric Smith]

> Their desperation and rage just comes from a feeling that they can't confront, that they just don't have much to offer.  
> 
> Marcus

Reading this, I feel like you could found a new generation of something that is like existentialist philosophy but equally-well political theory.

It is not so far from Nietzche’s notion that “God is dead” creates a problem for people, and they will face a fork in the road in how they try to deal with it.  Maybe even, considering the currents running through European and particularly German society at the time he was writing (and that he specifically wrote about), driven by concerns based on similar observations.

It strikes me that this is an available point of view for almost any person.  Granted, the distribution of rewards and frustrations differs from person to person and also from region to region, and that matters.  But the black box (black hole?) of how minds form characters and orientations in response to streams of these things draws from an immense and to me-obscure range of inputs. 

Makes me wonder,

Eric