There are two types of existential crises...
One is the type where we fail to actualize our 'essence'...and feel ourselves starting to run out of time...
This is where we stand at the edge of the Nietzschean cliff of 'non-being'...
And lack the necessary courage to take the leap or make the climb to the other side of the Nietzschean abyss to the cliff of 'being' and 'becoming'...
The second type of existential crisis is where we do take the Nietzschean leap of courage....
And we find we can't make it to the other side...
We stretch our hands and legs...and no cliff...
Just air....and the feeling of falling...
And falling...
And falling....
And in the midst of our existential panic...
We think to ourselves...
Maybe alienation and 'non-being' wasn't so bad after all...
Please God, put me back on the cliff of 'non-being'....
Because it is better than the type of 'non-being'...
That awaits me at the bottom of this abyss!!
So much for Nietzschean existential courage!!!
-- dgb, Nov. 30th, 2009.
-- David Gordon Bain
