Today in our discussion, we discussed how “the wall” is utilized. In the example with Juan and Phil, it was literally used as a tranquilizer; it stopped a violent outburst. On a philosophical level, the wall tranquilizes an existential crisis. The wall tranquilizes our minds so that at one point, we stop asking questions and prevent ourselves from becoming lost in infinity. Humans have this sort of innate need to know things. When people don’t know things as big as “where we came from” etc., it can lead to more negative follow up questions like “What am I even doing with my life”, “Do I matter”, and so on.
Aside from this, today brought me back to eighth grade English with Mr. Zipse. The best part of that class was that every so often, there would be Rush playing in the background while you worked. When we talked about how accepting that there is no answer to the great existential questions is technically still an “answer”, it reminded me of hearing the lyric, “You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice” from the song Freewill.
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