Existence - The Elephant in the Room

Being happy means being comfortable with existing without living in constant dread. This dread comes form the very realisation that we are alive and this notion brings about in us an immediate need to find purpose. We can’t comprehend that we exist for nothing so we look for a purpose to fulfill. For many people this takes the form of a job or the pursuit of women or love for a football team, anything that

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Sven’s Rant

Key concepts:

• Subversion of the norm
• Expression of individuality
• Breaking the shackles of conformity
• Rebellion
• Disobedience
• Dissent
• Satire
• Idealism of the past
• Optimism for the future (?)
• Playful Irony
• Self-Knowing
• Tongue in Cheek
• Self-deprecation

Rift looks at the world and her artificial systems, steps out of them and passes comment on them. It takes an often condemnatory standing point on people caught up in the systems, unable to open their eyes or see anything beyond what

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