2021-07-09
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So I wanted to begin today by giving a bit of a disclaimer about the thinker we're about to cover.
Emile Charon.
Born in Romania, 1911, most of the time categorizes one of the great existentialists of the 20th century.
And as an existentialist, not a surprise,
he's not going to spend a lot of his time talking about things like metaphysics,
building elaborate systems, talking about epistemology, aesthetics.
No, in fact, even more so than other existentialists out there.
He actually thought all these things were mostly a waste of time.
What Charon wants to talk about is existence, the human condition, more specifically, the dark,
inconveniently ugly aspects of existence, that society often tells us to sweep under the rug.
But nonetheless, you find yourself sitting there on the couch after work on a Tuesday in your front room.
And at some level, you know that those things are still there under the rug, hidden, but always still present.
Because of this, we have to talk about some pretty dark stuff this episode.
Not a surprise,
but his fascination with this protected class of dark topics is going to cause a lot of people to label him a pessimist.