Death Stranding, Pessimism, and the Antichrist [SPOILERS]

[VIDEO CONTAINS SPOILERS]
This is a video about Pessimism, and namely the Philosophers Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. We discuss a lot of stuff here, from the question of modern science as a Crusade, to human nature, to cosmology and the inevitability of death and suffering. It may seem like a bummer vid, but if you watch to the end, there is an attempt to ameliorate the pain with an actual strategy for how to live our lives.
What many do not realize about particle accelerators is that they have the potential to destroy the Earth and even tear the very fabric of space. Furthermore, the pursuit of a 'Grand Unified Theory' to unify all of the disparate levels of our physical reality may be nothing more than a contradiction: a Russian nesting doll, a Christian or even Nazified Crusade for a literal 'Final Solution', i.e. a Solution that explains everything in some kind of neat and symmetrical and simplistic way.
We should love life in the here and now, precisely BECAUSE it is not a pure thing: the only pure thing is the Will, the underlying essence of our minds. And even this Will is impossible to separate from the many internal conflicts and contradictions that constitute our nature as human beings, both as individuals and part of a single entity or species.
But should we retreat into a quietism, and give up on life in pursuit of some unifying oneness with the abstract Platonic absolutes of our own thoughts? To a degree, this can be therapeutic, even freeing - in the aesthetic forms of say music, art, or even video games.
But should that be the end point? The place we cling to, until our actual death, like a beached whale? Schopenhauer thought yes. Nietzsche, later in life, answered with a resounding NO.
We should keep coming. We should use the transformative, sublime power of art to gain the will not to die like Jesus but to live; even if we bear all of the sins of our species collectively, and therefore fail to live up to even the most forgiving of moral systems.
 We may have already ruined everything, but while there's still time, we should embrace ourselves, again and again, collectively. We should love humanity, and strive to improve a robust ability to live within the contradictions, rather than flee into the faith-based reasoning of modern physics or any other utopian fantasy that turns the human being into some kind of machine. If we can, we should even strive to love these faulty, broken parts of ourselves. Because you're a part of me, and I'm a part of you.
Recommended Reading / Works Cited:
"A Tear at the Edge of Creation"
https://www.amazon.com/Tear-Edge-Creation-Imperfect-Universe/dp/1611683971
"Imperfection Makes the Universe Beautiful"
https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2013/08/21/214109530/imperfection-makes-the-universe-beautiful
"A GUT Feeling - Symmetry Magazine"
https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/a-gut-feeling-about-physics
"Earth could shrink to 330ft across if particle accelerator experiments fail, top astronomer warns"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/09/29/earth-could-shrink-330ft-across-particle-accelerator-experiments/
"The Anthropocene epoch: scientists declare dawn of human-influenced age"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/29/declare-anthropocene-epoch-experts-urge-geological-congress-human-impact-earth
Arthur Schopenhauer - Plato Encyclopedia
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/schopenhauer/
"The Antichrist", Friedrich Nietzsche
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/19322/19322-h/19322-h.htm
"The conditions under which any one understands me, and necessarily understands me—I know them only too well. Even to endure my seriousness, my passion, he must carry intellectual integrity to the verge of hardness. He must be accustomed to living on mountain tops—and to looking upon the wretched gabble of politics and nationalism as beneath him. He must have become indifferent; he must never ask of the truth whether it brings profit to him or a fatality to him.... He must have an inclination, born of strength, for questions that no one has the courage for; the courage for the forbidden; predestination for the labyrinth.
The experience of seven solitudes. New ears for new music. New eyes for what is most distant. A new conscience for truths that have hitherto remained unheard. And the will to economize in the grand manner—to hold together his strength, his enthusiasm.... Reverence for self; love of self; absolute freedom of self...."
- The Antichrist, Preface, pg. 38

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