Episode #158 ... The Creation of Meaning - Nietzsche - The Ascetic Ideal

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  Hello,

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  Hope you love the show today.

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  So when keeping with last episode,

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  let's continue this discussion beginning from a place that we're all very familiar with,

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  that nothing you care about actually matters on any objective level.

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  You don't matter, your dreams don't matter, your pet guinea pig named Clarence, he doesn't matter,

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  but lucky for you and Clarence, there are these superheroes out there named philosophers,

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  and they've flown in to save the day for you.

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  You're born into a disinterested universe, feeling a little crummy,

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  philosophers going to take out their stethoscope and diagnose you with some sort of nihilism flu,

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  but don't worry, don't worry, they got the antidote.

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  They're going to prescribe you 100 cc's of meaning, teach you how to create that meaning at home,

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  fix you up a bit,

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  and isn't it wonderful that we had these meaning creation experts on hand right when we needed them the most?

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  But a totally valid question somebody might ask about this entire state of affairs is to ask the question,

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  why in the first place do we just assume that we need a philosopher to diagnose and prescribe meaning to things anyway?

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  Like, who are any of these people?

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  Who died and appointed them the moral arbiters of humanity?

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