Existential Dread, Striving, and Absurdity

The lament of an academic achievement addict

If, like me, your primary means of encountering philosophy is via stonery shit like Waking Life and a Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, then you’ve probably grokked Existentialism as Nihilism’s slightly less goth, slightly more Libertarian cousin. Nihilists wear all black. Existentialists wear snapbacks and wristbands…