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All things are empty. That counts doubly for things like patriotism, family life, and career success. Maybe this realization is just quicker? Maybe this also m

• 6d0debc071 12y ago
  > All things are empty. And living in a certain way fills them. Not necessarily intentionally or to our benefit. Some music is beautiful to me, some acts are pleasurable, some pictures and stories resonate. Maybe they're empty when taken objectively, but I don't see how that constitutes an answer to the poverty of subjective beings. We mostly seem to have things that, based on our histories and to some extent our biology, we've learned to draw pleasure or pain from. And that learning does not seem like it can easily be altered in a well designed manner. If it could, psychology would be a vastly simpler undertaking: "I'm depressed and I can't afford to do much more than eat." "Don't worry, switch over to the Nihilism 2.0 release and then patch it with Existentialism 3.1" ;)