I'm going to break my own rules here and leave some context. I find this song very Heideggerian. From it's opening bringing into light of mortality and the briefness of being, to the reference of death as the final being-towards or even being-for-the-sake-of. Yet the ultimate response to the inquiry into Being that angst throws up is here met with humour - Being is a cosmic joke, an unexplainable for which there will be (at its completion "on a cloud") no response but to laugh at it. Which I think is a nice counterpoint to Heidegger's somewhat dour discussion.
So one could have pleasure and humour whilst alive - authentic Dasein via the example of the Trickster archetype, from Loki to Harlequin* perhaps?
*Geek reference to the Laughing God in the Games Workshop universe. Sigh.
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I'm going to break my own rules here and leave some context. I find this song very Heideggerian. From it's opening bringing into light of mortality and the briefness of being, to the reference of death as the final being-towards or even being-for-the-sake-of. Yet the ultimate response to the inquiry into Being that angst throws up is here met with humour - Being is a cosmic joke, an unexplainable for which there will be (at its completion "on a cloud") no response but to laugh at it. Which I think is a nice counterpoint to Heidegger's somewhat dour discussion.
So one could have pleasure and humour whilst alive - authentic Dasein via the example of the Trickster archetype, from Loki to Harlequin* perhaps?
*Geek reference to the Laughing God in the Games Workshop universe. Sigh.
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