saintadatha

Depathologizing anxiety. The idea is that the normative discourse around the experience of living is shaded with all kinds of apparently dark and negative tones - fear, lonliness, cosmic impotence, etc. It is so normative in fact that it is quite hard to think of "being" in other terms. Although Continental philosophy attempts to treat this "condition" as being just human, rather than being something wrong with being normal, it's basis in doing so is still darkly shaded. They talk about "problems in living" and the "givens of existence" (which are always described as negatives).

Pooey, I say! We can talk differently about living and being.

Anyway, trying hard to catch up with everyone, having been AWOL for a week, so that's all I can spew forth right now.

Did someone mention drinks?

no i was talking about the live8 i wanted to go to the one in philli cuz the one in england sucked