e k s i s t e n t i a l i s m e C C C L X V I

You are not a mere victim of physics, as say, the ball becoming hit by the racket. is - you do not get to play that game.You do not have the excuse the ball becoming hit by the racket has. When the ball is hit by the racket, it becomes subject to the aerodynamic physical predicaments of nature: the ball, whose movement will be absolutely determined by the prior event of being hit by a racket, will fly with a fundamentally foreseeable trajectory. This is a direct consequence of manifold factors, such as, but absolutely not limited to, the material and density of the racket, the power with which the racket has been swung, and the aerial weather conditions through which the ball will steer its trajectory. The ball in itself could never decide in any way to undertake this trajectory, for it is inanimate and it is the mere pawn on a board of chess - the hand that is playing we know as natural reality, nothing more, nothing less... I think of the human as a breacher of this relationship between physical reality and the laws and dicta that govern it, for the human has in himself the power to outplay natural reality on the chessboard, ours is the hand that play the king and queen, and the rook, and bishop, with wit and with ignorance, as if combined - yes, that is humanity: human beings are no rackets and they are no balls, but they hold rackets and they throw the balls up into the air and they then swing their rackets onto them, hitting them with various degrees of force: yes, this is it: the human being has in its capacity to initiate sequences of events - it is with this observation of human reality that we may understand the concept of freedom, as it throbs and pulsates at the heart of its outer shell, we call it existentialism. We are humans and we initiate causal sequences - the racket, however, does not, for it merely is part of the initiated sequence: yes, we have a very distinct, and as far as I can outline, unique way of being in this world. The essential task of philosophy is to embody and to stir, as from the shadows, the violent uproar of the personality, unique as it is, which is dormant in you. This is the spiritual extreme of philosophy, and the finality of it, a concluding epitaph to it: yes, I say: the vein of existentialism runs through the body of the individual, which electrifies the violent subjectivity of the individual against everything else - and that is art!