There's a real existential anxiety at having to exist not just in a generalised social framework, but a capitalist social framework.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism.
Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.
French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it is a cynical, individualistic school of thought that posits the self and personal choice as the measure of life's entire meaning.
I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis.
There's a constant anxiety that comes from having an innate sense of self, yet existing within a homogenised, aspirational culture.
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.
If you happen to be in the right place at the right time, the capitalist system is a beautiful thing.