Playboy: If life is so purposeless, do you feel it’s worth living?

Kubrick: Yes, for those of us who manage to somehow cope with our mortality. The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. Children, of course, begin life with an untarnished sense of wonder, a capacity to experience total joy at something as simple as the greenness of a leaf; but as they grow older, the awareness of death and decay begins to impinge on their consciousness and subtly erode their joie de vivre, their idealism – and their assumptions of immortality. As a child matures, he sees death and pain everywhere about him, and begins to lose faith in the ultimate goodness of man. But if he’s reasonably strong – and lucky – he can emerge from this twilight of the soul into a rebirth of life’s élan. Both because of and in spite of his awareness of the meaninglessness of life, he can forge afresh a sense of purpose and affirmation. He may not recapture the same pure sense of wonder he was born with, but he can shape something far more enduring and sustaining. The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death – however mutable man may be able to make them – our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfilment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

Here is some preaching… If you glimpse into your ego, it can be annihilated. Inherantly, you’ll know it when it happens…but usually forgotten…in the hussle and bussle. Being disappointed, disillusioned, or discombobulated is the very moment you are looking through the external vision in your mind. The disconnected empathetic times…small moments in the workings of your psyche when your vision reaches outside of your own needs. Yet, in most other personal actions…as a human, selfish thoughts persist. Nature requires this to survive. Just because we’ve turned away from nature…because of our nurture, doesnt mean that it isnt within every part of us.

There is no point in striving to overcome our disappointment, accept it. Go through the steps of grief and mourning for the collective conscience, because it is overwhelmed by corruption/corporation. Of course, I’d rather we all peacefully rise up against such evils.

anyway, i ran out of time. cya

-Henry David Thoreau

I’d rather Morgenstern than Sartre or Camus.

–Christian Morgenstern

I agree, but I thought you thought that there was no relentless march.