Antinatalism and Depression CXVI: Weighing Zapffe's Anchor
Channel: Anekantavad
Date: 2012-11-02

In this video, I anchor myself by observing how stupid antinatalists are for anchoring themselves. That's about it, isn't it?

Life gets pretty absurd sometimes. All the time.

Why is this man smirking at the camera? http://i.ytimg.com/vi/h_ON8Y98ID8/0.jpg

Here's Zapffe's blurb on anchoring:

"Anchoring might be characterised as a fixation of points within, or construction of walls around, the liquid fray of consciousness. Though typically unconscious, it may also be fully conscious (one 'adopts a goal'.) Publicly useful anchorings are met with sympathy, he who 'sacrifices himself totally' for his anchoring (the firm, the cause) is idolised. He has established a mighty bulwark against the dissolution of life, and others are by suggestion gaining from his strength. In a brutalised form, as deliberate action, it is found among 'decadent' playboys ("one should get married in time, and then the constraints will come of themselves.") Thus one establishes a necessity in one's life, exposing oneself to an obvious evil from one's point of view, but a soothing of the nerves, a high-walled container for a sensibility to life that has been growing increasingly crude. Ibsen presents, in Hjalmar Ekdal and Molvik, two flowering causes ('living lies'); there is no difference between their anchoring and that of the pillars of society except for the practico-economic unproductiveness of the former."