February 08, 2005

+1 for Dino Rossi, Existentialism -5

Dino Rossi, one of our candidates for Govornor (the won who won twice and lost once) said today that even if they recounted the votes again and he won he would want a revote because that is the only thing that will restore the voter's confidence in the voting system. I guess that's a +1 for him, now Christine Gregoire will just have to say that, though she's the winner so I doubt she will.

I had an eventful weekend. I stayed out until 3am on Friday night and that was the first time I had done that in a while. Mainly I was watching Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and I realized how few people actually know and understand the term 'existentialism'. It makes me wonder how many people have heard of Nietsche or that "God is dead and we have killed him"... I mean how do you get through post secondary education without learning about Nietsche? Were you not paying attention? Course when asked to define it I stumbled, but it's such a fundamental concept for me it's hard to explain... so I looked it up and in case you didn't know what existentialism is here's your definition: A philosophy that emphasizes the uniqueness and isolation of the individual experience in a hostile or indifferent universe, regards human existence as unexplainable, and stresses freedom of choice and responsibility for the consequences of one's acts. (Also that God is dead and we have killed him because he was just a figment of our imagination anyway...)

Charlie Kauffman could be defined as an existentialist, any one of his movies (though I haven't seen Adaptation) show life as very lonely.

So I hope you all learned something and I hope I didn't lose babada again, though I must say it doesn't take much. And please enlighten me as to how post secondary education doesn't teach existentialism which I learned in high school. Apparently my high school was awesome and I didn't know it until I found out how bad it is in the Midwest... and people think California has a bad school system...

Posted by 10lees at February 8, 2005 01:28 PM