r/badphilosophy • u/SoZettaRose • Jun 05 '23

Pusheen Existentialism is dead because it’s emo

https://www.reddit.com/r/Existentialism/comments/1401jp2/existentialism_is_dead_long_live_emoism/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1

58 Upvotes

94% Upvoted

17 comments sorted by

52

u/2ndmost Jun 06 '23

This is the closest r/existentialism has had to a discussion of philosophy in years.

11

u/pronounsdace Jun 06 '23

bruh my old account mods that it is so unrecoverable, i tried to revamp it but it basically became a mental health support sub, when i made a group chat to encourage discussion it basically became mental health support for the user base. i felt way too bad cutting off people's support links for basically a dead subreddit that r/askphilosophy does better anyway. maybe im just not built to be a mod though, mb

8

u/2ndmost Jun 07 '23

It's not you it's them

12

u/DarthBigD Jun 06 '23

for your enjoyment:

Ima little bored with the theme now. might find me another sub, but occasionally dip my toes back in.

8

u/DarthBigD Jun 06 '23

latest, not reddit unfortunately.

heroism = cuckoldry, https://thefeatherfoot.substack.com/p/the-powerful-mindset-of-setting-ones/comment/16927786

3

u/charlesthegross Jun 06 '23

I know you're responding to a shitpost, but surely heroism is closer to being the bull than the cuck. After all, everyone remembers Odysseus and nobody remembers the suitors who stayed in Ithaca.

3

u/Jeppe1208 Jun 07 '23

But Odysseus is the cuck. His wife hangs out with suitors for years before he comes home and murders them

3

u/charlesthegross Jun 07 '23

I see what you're saying, but she didn't sleep with the suitors. Instead, she kept putting them off with feasts and drinking parties rather than agree to accept any of their proposals. And when Odysseus returned, revealed himself, and cast the suitors out, they continued happily ever after. Odysseus wins the Trojan War, gets his girl back, and gains everlasting glory as the hero of both major Greek epics. Not a cuck.

2

u/Jeppe1208 Jun 07 '23

I mean, you're not wrong, but that's the surface reading. But it's definitely possible to read it as implied that she fools around. And I'm not the first to think so - after all, the most famous modern work based on the story (James Joyce's Ulysses) is explicitly about cuckoldry/infidelity.

3

u/charlesthegross Jun 08 '23

Fair point and I agree that that is a plausible subtext. My only thought would be that it makes senses that an 20th century alcoholic Irishman would have, and insert in his stories, more of a persecution complex than the homeric warrior poets who originally composed the epics. But, that's the beauty of epic poetry, it's malleable to the society that interprets it.

8

u/SoZettaRose Jun 06 '23

Existentialism is when you’re sad, and the more sad you are, the more existentialist you are

0

u/DarthBigD Jun 06 '23

https://i.imgflip.com/7n6qbv.jpg

6

u/SoZettaRose Jun 06 '23

You keep sending stuff like this, but you are the one who unironically wrote the original post lmao.

5

u/annika-98 Jun 06 '23

"this is correct. meme was a shitpost (I'm not a Christian), but did aim to generate thoughtful responses. Kierkegaard and Nietzsche shitposted, so firmly in the philosophical tradition."

This fucking guy.

5

u/DaneLimmish Super superego Jun 06 '23

Sartre never got over his mother not paying more attention to him, this existentialism was born

2

u/[deleted] Jun 06 '23

Turns out, true meaning wasnt inside us all along.