Emil Cioran—a Romanian philosopher— is sometimes considered to be the best aphorist since Friedrich Nietzsche. This episode addresses Cioran's position on consciousness, and that to reflect too much on the world is oftentimes a tragedy. Instead, what we ought to do is focus on completing tasks, keeping our minds busy so as to avoid slipping into an existential crisis.

Though much of his writing consists in bleak rhetoric about life, consciousness, and death, he expresses what many of us have thought at one point or another in our lives. Life is difficult—and sometimes it just doesn't get better. Cioran would suggest that we might as well continue, in spite of life itself.

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