Embracing the existential angst | Moment's Notice
Last updated 4/6/2022 at 2:37pm

Lori Peña
"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."
– Simone De Beauvoir
A friend recently shared with me that her teenage son is interested in existentialism, and specifically reading Albert Camus.
As a Generation Xer who embraced existential angst as a guiding principle in my teen years, it seems like a perfectly rational step, although I realize it does come with a bit of a burden.
The official social science explanation is that kids today are growing up in a somewhat similar world to the '70s and '8...
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