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It was described as a bleak essay about our existence, angst, despair, and depression. The author, Peter Wessel Zapffe, a Norwegian philosopher, argued that our overly involved intellect and overabundance of consciousness lead to these issues, and we are a biological paradox in abomination and absurdity.
The Last Messiah, dude how fucking long even listen to this podcast of course they haven't by the norwegian philosopher and mountain climbing enthusiast Peter Weissel Zaporo
— Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 3-25-24
Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 3-25-24
It was described as a bleak essay about our existence, angst, despair, and depression. The author, Peter Wessel Zapffe, a Norwegian philosopher, argued that our overly involved intellect and overabundance of consciousness lead to these issues, and we are a biological paradox in abomination and absurdity.
The Last Messiah, dude how fucking long even listen to this podcast of course they haven't by the norwegian philosopher and mountain climbing enthusiast Peter Weissel Zaporo
Zamp zap ffe and all around swell dude has been described as one of the bleakest thinkers of all time in place uh naturally he's on to something I've heard you rant and rave about the corporations and their insatiable greed and unchecked malice the lunacy of ordinary people distracted by twinkling stars and erectile dysfunction medication hymns oh okay listen to the podcast I think our resident philosopher smiley zamp can elucidate do this fucking guy see guys are smartia elucidate uh didn't for the longest time I thought lucid meant you a fucking loopy I don't know what meant you were thinking clearly some of the horrors of our existence and and perchants prc h a n c per chance explain some of our species more malicious and evil behavior
in the last messiah he argues that our existence angst despair and depression is due to our overly involved intellect we have an over abundance of consciousness we think too much for our own good we are a biological paradox in abomination and absurdity and exaggeration of disastrous nature
borrowing from psychoanalysis zamp argues that we as overthinking viruses have four methods of limiting the contents of our consciousness parentheses or said differently hiding the awfulness of existence from ourselves we can isolate I've been doing that lately avoid thinking altogether thinking too much about death suffering and the presidential election is too much it's better to watch efforts for family and eat cheetos oh boy this is getting a little too close to home here uh we can anchor fixate on the values or i an ideal samphix exquisite example our church god state morality fate the laws of life in the future we can distract prevent the mind from ever examining itself how about some external stimulation instagram you to tiktok and the super bowl anything to not be aware do this is this is fucking this is getting this is disturbing I agree with all of this we can sublimate turning the pain of living into something valuable yeah life is shit but the shit has some meaning to it because of xyz me I have to be on see the vitus stop right here this right here all of this I agree with like what you do with your brain and on everything they say in here and the only thing that has saved me has been finding love and then having children having a dog riding a motorcycle around an airport that dopa mean grin on my face and also helping other people just trying to like all right I can't stop all of this big shit but I can go into this store be nice to this person I can see this person needing money you know of course you try to judge if they're on drugs or alcohol give them a little bit of money I don't know I don't know what to do here wow there's some reason like the way this is explained though isn't depressing it's actually like enlightening enlightening where are these words coming from I'm interested to hear you uh in my world that's a big word all right fuck off I'm interested to hear your take on this I'm also interested to learn if you think his suggestion anti-nationalism is good or bad and why mean not being for your country well you there's a trust factor everyone would have to do it I mean that's what I would let me just sort of let go of all of these stupid leaders with their dumb flags behind them oh my god that remind me of that guy way back in the day Damon Zex Damon motherfucking Zex when he used to be on um public access here in New York I used to watch that with Bobby Kelly it was fucking awesome
your answer will of course be graded and if you get an f you'll have to repeat summer school where the duns hat and listen to the greatest hits of new kids on the block I like new kids oh oh oh on repeat for 128 hours while we sleep to preview and you and scream obscenities at you clockwork orange there so for any and all misspellings weird grammar and other dumb shit I'm a stupid foreigner whose native language sounds like a series of grunts and pig squeals dude fuck off if you could this is your second language you have more command of this language than I do I'm regularly distracting myself from life's horrors with your podcasts and stand-up shows and I remember catching you live when you played oslo spectrum great set if you ever come back to Norway I'll be sure to get some tickets kind of regards and uh merry how do you fucking do chairman of the positivity council well I'm gonna fucking read that whatever the hell you told me to read all right here's a link right here uh how christ turnoff airplane mode all right I'm going to do that right now I'm gonna turn off airplane mode so I can tell you guys what the name of this thing is because that was fascinated to me to at least understand you know why we're doing the things that we do here all right philosophy now philosophy now that's such a funny name philosophy sounds like you just sort of chilling out wearing a fucking toga and you just be chill right philosophy now uh the last Messiah um by peter okay I'll spell it out for you if you're interested in this oh it's published in 1933 peter wessel w s s e l zap zap ffe peter wessel w s s e l zap ffe zapp originally published january 19 1933 translated from Norwegian um the last Messiah and philosophy now dot org or you can buy it I don't know where um I'm gonna fucking read this thank you so much that's amazing all right that's the podcast everybody go fuck yourselves and I'll check in on you on thursday