Tired. Just tired. I feel like the idealistic bullshit I've been fed by my elders for so long is manifesting itself in the present period of my life. For so long i believed in the naive assumption that all can fashion their passions into labor that would be somehow deemed as justified by the will of capital or industry. This idea that you should do what you like and be able to survive from it led me to a path of self condemnation for years. I wasn't happy because i wasn't doing what i wanted to do in order to satisfy my perceived duties, and it was entirely my fault. I'm not sure i believe this anymore. It is not difficult to imagine a scenario where one's passion(or passions), this object which requires no external motivation or attached duty to perform, does not lie within the realm of academia or profitable enterprise. Such an obvious hurdle to overcome for so many of you, the acceptance of the current inexistence of a form absolute freedom and the subsequent attempt to make the most out of one's endowment and station. I have difficulty accepting that. I realize that I am but the sum of my limitations; i speak of no truths but my reality. I am at odds with my conception of the social dynamics governing my environment, and i mean this in the most objective rational way possible(i do not fancy myself as a tragic hero of sorts). Whether due to the imperfection and incompleteness of my thought or a legitimate thirst for "betterment"; it is the current manifestation of my person. What torments the soul of this philosophical neophyte is the perception of the omniscience of competition in most every level of discourse, it appears etched into essence of language, interpersonal relations etc... Naturalistic arguments explain the state of being of this phenomena but it does not convince me of its perpetuity. Perhaps a bottom up approach is required to unlearn what is so intrinsic, at the smallest levels of discourse. In any case this existential ordeal has pushed me towards wanting to emigrate to France or Germany, not ideal but perhaps a place closer to what I seek. The irony of it all is that my current degree is useless and the best solution i can come up with so far is getting a degree that would cost me around 150-200k, therefore pinning me down to the states for at least 10-20 years.
I'd like to share a quote: "Those who can breathe the air of my writings know that it is an air of the heights, a strong air. One must be made for it. Otherwise there is no small danger that one may catch cold in it. The ice is near, the solitude tremendousbut how calmly all things lie in the light! How freely one breathes! How much one feels beneath oneself! Philosophy, as I have so far understood and lived it, means living voluntarily among ice and high mountainsseeking out everything strange and questionable in existence [
] Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself. " Nietzsche
Deconstruction and existential pursuit are perhaps airs of heights that were not suited for me. It would appear that the 21st century is no place for a dinosaur from the 19th century.
(Paragraphs, i don't use them, what can i say i'm an entitled little prick!)