This Solo Episode I discuss multiple interesting clips from “True Detective”, “Fight Club”, and “Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell”. Most of the topics revolve around the possibility that humans do not in fact have a purpose, identity, destiny, etc. That we may in fact be just a heap of organic matter on a random planet in a gigantic universe.

 

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Topics and Clips discussed include:

• True Detective

  • Season 1 Episode 1 Clip discussing life and humans:

• What if we are nobody, and have no purpose?
  • Should humans exist? Is our consciousness an evolutionary flaw?
  • This is depressing. What do we make of it?

 

• Optimistic Nihilism – A video by “Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell”

 

• Takeaways from the video:

  • The possibilities could be endless
  • All mistakes and errors and regrets don’t matter
  • You can redefine what you want, who you are, etc.

 

Fight Club (Self Improvement Clip)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikY0fs94U-M

• Takeaways from the video:

  • What is wrong with self improvement?
  • When you are building yourself up, you have more to lose.
  • But if you strip yourself down, the possibilities are endless

Final Clip: