isms
Maya is over, reading Self-Reliance. Every once in a while she looks up and reads a passage and I tell her how I don't really like transcendentalism because I'm an objectivist. And how existentialism may be an interesting life philosophy, but it's a stupid educational one for much the same reason. For a self-absorbed teenager and pseudo-artist, I'm actually not much of a philosophical romantic and I don't have a huge interest in "personal meaning". It just looks so pale and, well, meaningless next to universal ones. If you don't believe in truth, what's the point of believing in anything? Because you don't-- not really.