Here An Angst, There An Angst
So what's the deal with angst? Why is it now acceptable and even expected that we all be so angsty? I can understand teenagers being nervous about their place in life and feeling apprehension over the enormity of the world, but why are so many people my age still wallowing in this stage of limbo? And furthermore, why has angst become the catch-all excuse for people? Life's too hard? - Just be angsty and everyone will leave you alone.
Where did all this come from? I think a large amount of it comes from living in large cities. It's sometimes hard to find a meaningful existance in a city. For instance, I work at a cafe making $4 coffees for people - kind of a superfluous job. Then I take my earnings for doing this service and buy any number of things with it, from food to Uber-Maxi-Super-Magna-Dingo-Infused-Toe-Knuckle-Hair-Removers. We lack attachment to real and tangible things like working to produce food or building our own homes to live in or clothes to wear. Thus, our jobs, which constitute 1/3 of our days, are unsatisfying and often the rest of the day hold about the same. I think of all the farm kids I grew up with and I see no angst there at all. Yes, they are perhaps dissatisfied with a simple way of life at times and some long for the shiny things of the city. When they get there, some (not all), will also lose touch with the value of life.
Even less do I understand why young Christians fall prey to the same angstedness. I don't understand how you can accept the message of the gospel, where God Himself came down to atone for our sin so that He could be with us, and feel valueless and purposeless.
The solution is obvious - head for the hills, live off home-grown granola, grow lots of hemp...for clothes!
posted by Chuck @ 8:10 AM
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Not to mention world peace, free love, sex with no consequences and a whole lot of marijuana! You were born in the wrong decade I think. :o)
I think it's sort of that modern-rebellious-in-a-conformist-not-too-different-way mentallity. Body piercing, tatoo, no one understands me, look at me could I have more angst, I'm outside of the man's society just like everyone else my age behaviour. At least that's why I do it.
Yes indeed, And then we'll hold all our possessions in common, and a small group of revolutionaries will take charge in over throwing the government. And then they;'ll hold power, but just for a little while. Because it's all for the people right? Bread and freedom, just for the people. And then, for the good of the people we'll introduce the Guillotine, and then neighbors will start to dissapear in the night, and everyone will be too afraid to say anything. But it's all for the samke of the commune, right? IT's all for the higher cause, the idealistic future. Right? right? And Stalin, he was all for returning to the land, wasn't he? send those city kids to the farms, and they'll learn the true value of life! Send them to the country, and watch the economy fall to pieces and society fall apart, and millions upon millions of people be starved by those few men who were fighting for the sake of the common good, and just wanted to help for a little while.
It's all for the sake of the idea! Long live the revolution! Long live Communism!!
Yupp, and Mao sent them out to the hills too. He sent millions of city children to the fields for periods of time. The purpose was to reconnect them to the land, eliminate western influences, and to get rid of angst and other "modern' influences....
Thousands upon thousands died. The country residents were burdened with extra mouths to feed, and very little actual help, as the city children couldn't work and didn't know how to learn.
The economy plummeted, and.... everyone was unhappy.
So much for idealism, I'd rather take angst.
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