2021-11-11
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Be well, and I hope you love the show today.
So this series has been called The Creation of Meeting So Far,
and the hope has been that we might be able to get some sort of insight into how to go about doing
that by looking at the work of various different thinkers.
But if there's anything from last time that it's important to reiterate from the very outset here,
it's that when it comes to Nietzsche in particular, it was not his ambition,
nor is it the ambition of this podcast for that matter,
to relay to you some high resolution image of which system of values you should be constructing in your life.
Nobody wants to give you all the colors and all the details of the picture that you're going to paint.
Nietzsche wasn't even trying to give you a paint by numbers in his work.
To many of the existentialists, it is your responsibility to paint your own canvas.
And while no doubt you are going to take inspiration from the paintings of other people around you,
other famous paintings that have been created throughout history, while you'll no doubt take inspiration,
you should see it as an immediate red flag if someone's ever trying to sell you
that high resolution image of what kind of person you should be.
In many ways,
it might be a good strategy to proceed with the mindset
that the more detailed of a picture someone's trying to get you to buy,