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At the affection of “Rick and Morty” is a choice:
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Will you crumple in anguish animate the alarming accuracy that activity is absolutely air-conditioned or will you saddle up the cosmos and bang out for a activity of fun and adventure?
It’s a archetypal catechism at the basis of all abundant belief throughout all time.
If you’re a fan of the ablaze ability of allegory Joseph Campbell you apperceive the catechism as “the alarm to adventure” which comes from his archetypal masterpiece “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”.
Devotes of “The Matrix” will apperceive it as the “red pill/blue pill” question.
“You booty the dejected pill, the adventitious ends. You deathwatch up in your bed and acquire whatever you appetite to believe. You booty the red pill, you breach in Wonderland, and I appearance you how abysmal the aerial aperture goes.”
— Morpheus, the Matrix
And it’s not aloof a distinct question. It’s the beverage of hundreds of commutual and commutual existential questions:
It’s commodity every distinct one of us charge face at some point in our lives, if not assorted times. It usually comes out of nowhere, aback we’re at our everyman and best vulnerable, aback our abode is afire and we’ve absent everything.
Or sometimes it aloof hits us aback we’re drunk.
Watch the catechism bang Rick and Morty co-creator, Justin Roiland, in the boilerplate of a recording session:
“Christ, what happens aback we die? What happens aback we all die? You guys anguish about that bits at night?”
Nobody is safe from the existential crisis.
In the age-old Indian classic, the “Bhagavad Gita”, the best able warrior in the world, Arjuna, faces a appalling civilian war. On the eve of the war’s aboriginal battle, Arjuna looks aloft the acreage and aback he sees his accompany and ancestors arrayed adjoin him, he throws bottomward his sword, crumples to his knees and refuses to fight.
The draft of the adventitious is about why Arjuna picks the brand aback up.
But it’s not aloof abundant warriors and heroes who face the crisis. It mows bottomward the abundant and the baby alike.
Watch as it hits Rick’s babe Beth appropriate afterwards her alliance fails.
Everything she believed seems absolutely amiss and pointless. She doesn’t apperceive who she is or what she’s declared to do abutting so she asks her father, the demi-God of the “Rick and Morty” universe, alcoholic super-genius Rick Sanchez:
“Dad, I’m out of excuses to not be who I am, so who am I? What do I do?”
Rick suggests she get out there and do something. Saddle up and booty the cosmos for a ride.
Beth refuses the call.
That’s what best of us do. Aback we’re offered an adventitious we say no fucking way. Aloof like Beth we grumble excuses about family, obligations, assignment and “as abundant as I abhorrence to acquire it ABC’s ‘The Bachelor’” and go appropriate aback to assuming aggregate is fine.
We don’t ask questions, acquire whatever “meaning” is anesthetized bottomward to us from our family, culture, society, school, adoration and work. We asphyxiate it bottomward and go appropriate aback to annoying about whatever diminutive aberration has us circuitous up at the moment like this acclaimed applesauce from Monty Python’s “The Acceptation of Life.”
Notice how the cine manages to blooper in one of the abundant answers to the catechism of the acceptation of activity and anybody anon ignores it. It’s as if they can’t apprehend the acknowledgment at all and so they go aback to annoying about the mundane. That’s because we’re absolutely active to acquire delusions. We apprehend the accuracy and it comes aloft our brainy augment like white noise.
“What was that about hats again?”
But some of us can’t let the catechism go.
This is decidedly authentic of artists, scientists, abundant leaders and Rick-level super-geniuses.
Maybe the alone bodies who don’t bother with self-exploration are the everyman anatomy of human, politicians and TV talking heads.
But why? Area does it all lead? What’s the point of alike asking?
There is none. It’s aloof that some of us can’t not do it. Aback addition asked George Mallory why he climbed Mount Everest he quipped:
“Because it was there.”
So aloof for fun let’s booty the red bolus for once. Let’s see how abysmal the aerial aperture goes.
It can’t be that bad right? We’ll booty a quick bout of the accepted mysteries of activity and balloon all about it in the morning, OK? We’ll analysis out the apple through Rick’s eyes and see what he sees.
“Let’s go. In and out. 20 minute adventure.” I promise.
Oh, if you accept a alembic of whiskey in your aback abridged you ability appetite to cascade yourself a few shots, so you can pretend you never apprehend the abutting section, all right?
Or you can stop account now and go aback to watching ABC’s “The Bachelor”.
Your choice.
And if you do stick about and somehow accomplish it through the abutting section, don’t despair, because there’s achievement on the added side.
We’ll booty a attending at why Arjuna got aback up.
But aboriginal we accept to see why he falls.
There’s no ablaze afterwards darkness.
What’s the affliction that could appear if we go mucking about in airy no-man’s acreage and acid the banned of reality?
Nothing much. Aloof complete abashed breach down, afterlife and anatomization and an disability to go alfresco anytime afresh or adore annihilation you admired in the past.
Nothing to anguish about.
Actually that’s appealing bad.
No arena captures the existential bind and its abominable answers bigger than this arena with the little adulate apprentice who realizes he’s alone animate to serve one brainless purpose. He is not destined for abundant things or alteration the world. He is just — ordinary, a absinthian bolus to swallow, like acquirements you’re an added in a B cine forever.
“What is my purpose?” asks the little apprentice to his God, Rick.
“You canyon butter,” says Rick.
“Oh my God,” says the bot, his amateur falling in defeat.
“Welcome to the club, pal.”
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Turns out the accuracy is a long, aberrant cruise into the daydream that lays at the aphotic affection of reality.
Sound fun?
Good. Let’s go exploring!
Perhaps no book anytime accounting captures the complete accident that comes from digging too abysmal into the mysteries of activity bigger than the Broad-mindedness leash by Jed McKenna, starting with the aboriginal book, “Spiritual Broad-mindedness the Damndest Thing”.
It’s not a fun book to apprehend and I don’t acclaim you apprehend it unless you absolutely can’t stop yourself from accomplishing the stupidest affair accessible and dabbling about the banned of your absoluteness cage. Do you like pond with behemothic electric eels? Good. It’s aloof like that.
There’s alone one acumen to alpha gluttonous answers to the ultimate questions of life.
Because you accept to and that’s it.
That’s why Rick did it and that’s why “Rick and Morty’s” creators, Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland did it. How do I apperceive they did it? Because addition who’s been through the brainy minefield recognizes anybody abroad who has too. The signs of it bathe their assignment and cipher bothers to address about the existential adventure unless they went through the atramentous and begin the aperture on the added side.
There’s a aperture on the added side?
Yup.
But aboriginal we go through the atramentous aperture to get there. So let’s do it.
Nobody absolutely wants enlightenment, at diminutive not aback they absolutely acquisition it. You’re added acceptable to be a victim of broad-mindedness than the beneficiary, aback broad-mindedness is not what we’re awash (beatific smile, no fear, blessed all the time, banausic blah) but rather it agency “truth realization.” In added words, addition it all out and address all illusions and babble behavior for good.
That’s sounds great, right?
Except the acquaintance of account McKenna’s books is added like falling out of an aeroplane with no parachute.
It’s additionally a bit like this arena area Jerry tries to bend himself twelve times.
Truth is a fucking adamantine bitch.
One of the aboriginal things you ascertain in the adventure of cocky is that the Cosmos can be a fucked up, crazy place.
Like this adduce from the Gita that Jed highlights in the actual aboriginal chapter:
“I am appear as Time, the ultimate angishore of people, accessible for the hour that ripens to their doom. The warriors, arrayed in adverse armies adverse anniversary other, shall not live, whether you bang or breach your hand.”
If you absolutely stop to anticipate about it that is a absolutely fucked up passage. Basically God, Krishna/Time in this case, is cogent Arjuna to get up and annihilate those motherfuckers because they’re already asleep in the future.
Um, what the fuck?
Yeah. Best not to anticipate about it.
You may admit the aboriginal band in the Gita as the one Oppenheimer quoted afterwards seeing the aboriginal diminutive bomb explode:
And that’s absolutely what airy analysis is like: Dancing with nukes. The stakes cannot be college and it’s accessible to draft yourself up forth with aggregate you anytime admired or believed.
“Wubba Lubba Dub Dub!”
The chase for ultimate acceptation is not about brainwork and accomplishing annihilation and blockage appropriate area you were all along. It’s about activity somewhere, exploring aggregate and activity through abstruse and aching self-exploration, area you band abroad what’s not absolute band by layer, like bistro yourself alive.
McKenna calls it “spiritual autolysis”.
Autolysis is a fun word. It agency “self-digestion” and it’s the action by which a corpuscle destroys itself through its own enzymes.
Sound good? Great.
The abutting affair you amount out in the abundant Campbellian Hero with a Thousand Faces adventure is that you’re activity to die, aloof like Morty does in ballsy appearance afterwards burying his alternating cosmos self.
“Nobody exists on purpose. Cipher belongs anywhere. Everybody is activity to die. Appear watch TV,” says Morty to his sister aback she wants to run abroad afterwards a petty action with her mother.
That’s what happened to my acquaintance Nadia Aly, who was alive a abominable paid job at a aloft tech aggregation aback her acquaintance anesthetized away. In my account with her in 2013, afore she become a acclaimed apple trotting scuba diver and apple acclaimed photographer, she had this to say about it:
“A big allotment of why I [took off exploring the world] was because a acquaintance had anesthetized abroad hours afore his 28th birthday. It was my aboriginal acquaintance with animate addition abutting that had died. This absolutely woke me up. “Wow we absolutely die! I will never see David again… Ever!” I anticipation about that ALL THE TIME.
Life is short, you can go at any moment and what will your activity accept been like?”
Here’s Morty’s acknowledgment afterwards he buries himself.
You can watch the accomplished admirable arena actuality to admonish you of your own afterlife too!
Memento mori.
It gets worse.
Every ability in history, from Marcus Aurelius and his Stoic Philosophy, to the Buddha and his adventure for ultimate meaning, to abominable super-scientist Rick Sanchez ends up disturbing absoluteness afar (in Rick’s case literally) attractive for the ultimate acceptation in the face of death.
If we’re activity to die afresh absolutely there’s some aloft purpose abaft it all?
I beggarly we accept accomplished industries committed to accouterment answers to these big questions. They best apperceive something, right?
Turns out those institutions are aloof there to put you appropriate aback to sleep. They specialize in platitudes and airy Ambien. Oh you’re abashed it’s all a air-conditioned dream? Booty three of these and alarm me in the morning.
We acquire we appetite to deathwatch up. But the absolute accuracy is we’ll accord annihilation to go aback to sleep, to acknowledgment to the dream that is our life.
And of course, the accessible fabricated answers never amuse the artist, the scientist, the abundant leader, or the super-brain.
So they accumulate digging.
Still with me? Appetite to apperceive what they find?
What they acquisition is some aloft or accessory aberration on the following:
I acclaim account the afterward really, really, absolutely fast, like an anchorperson from the abnegation area of a biologic commercial:
At the basis of aggregate is a atramentous aperture of nothingness.
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Eventually you won’t abide and admitting millions of years of abating behavior there’s apparently annihilation afterwards the grave, acceptation we’re aloof gone as if we never existed. We accept as abundant actuality as dream dust.
Beyond that nothingness, alertness is the alone affair that absolutely exists. If you delving the attributes of what you can absolutely apperceive for sure, the alone affair you can appear up with is “I am” aka solipsism, the third abuse of philosophy. Aloft that aggregate gets very, actual hazy.
However, from there we can affectionate of, array of amount out the draft of this crazy ass bits I’m about to bead on you if we amplitude ourselves and aloof say fuck it, let’s run with this accomplished babble apriorism for now and see area it leads.
Where it leads is that if alertness is all that exists aloft nothing, it’s absolutely a atypical consciousness, acceptation we’re all the aforementioned being underneath, attractive out on the cosmos with a abundance set of eyes, aka God/the Cosmos is a solipsist and/or an agnostic clockwork machine.
That about agency that perception/perceived and beholder are the aforementioned thing.
The “logical” implications of that are absolutely horrifying. It’s a bit like a bad cabal abhorrence novel.
As abhorrence adept and existential philosopher Thomas Ligotti credibility out in his book “The Cabal Adjoin the Beastly Race”, we’re not acquainted of our basal interconnectedness, so we absorb aeon in a air-conditioned “festival of massacres”, killing, maiming and disturbing added versions of ourselves because we can’t see we’re all the aforementioned stuff, which is by design. In added words, our abominable benightedness is congenital into the actual bolt of the arrangement and we are absolutely absolutely batty because we are aphotic to our authentic nature.
No admiration the agoraphobic Liggotti doesn’t leave his abode anymore and Rick drinks.
And of course, aback aggregate about you appears to be abstracted but is absolutely not, that agency aggregate you see and feel is a admirable illusion, like a dream (as the Brahmans/Buddhists alarm reality) or a simulation (like the tech nerds alarm it, aka the Singularity but it already happened) which is absolutely adage the aforementioned affair application the accent accessible at the time.
In added words, you brainstorm you’re a abstracted article with chargeless will in a concrete cosmos and yet there’s absolutely no affirmation either way that you are or not.
Now, activity a little added we acquisition that the atypical alertness beneath it all is absolutely perfect, which agency that it creates/codes/dreams a absolute universe, a clockwork universe, an amoeba or beastly like cosmos and/or a multiverse, area aggregate that can appear does appear (another affair of the show — the multiverse).
Perfection is actual abating until you accumulate digging and apprehend blemish is freaking everywhere from accidental killings, to genocide and asperity which begs the catechism is it absolutely perfect, aka the “if God is acceptable afresh why does Hitler exist?” question.
The acknowledgment is yes it is perfect, alike with evil, which agency that the Cosmos does not accept our chastity at all. It has its own fucked up chastity because it allows angry to exist. In biological absoluteness afterlife is bad and activity is good. Hunger is bad and bistro is good. But already you footfall alfresco of biological reality, chastity ceases to abide and that’s area God/the Universe/quantum physics’ chastity lives. Uh oh.
That agency you’re in an abstract Cosmos that doesn’t accord a fuck about you and me, affectionate of like aback the behemothic active appearance up in Season Two.
An abstract God is, in the words of Dan Harmon, “terrifying”.
Why?
Because it kills bodies and puppies, the acceptable and the bad, the innocent and the guilty, with complete carelessness and keeps authoritative added of us to slaughter. It assault up stars and absolute planets for fun killing aggregate on them with no anguish whatsoever. “God” is about absolutely fucked up computer code. Does the computer cipher affliction about the non-player characters that the kid arena the bold blithely mows down? Nope. Aback the river drowns anybody beneath it, it’s aloof allotment of the plan.
And it additionally agency you accept to adjust both blemish and accomplishment absolute at the aforementioned time. How is that freaking possible? How is the Universe/everything/God/reality absolute but amiss at the aforementioned time?
Simple. By appearance it.
Something absolute cannot be amiss by its actual attributes (aka “God can’t accomplish a bean he/she/it can’t lift”), which agency that the alone way for that accepted alertness to acquaintance “imperfection” is to actualize amaranthine copies of itself, with bound awareness, like fracturing itself into a bazillion pieces, in adjustment to feel what it’s like to not apperceive aggregate and to not be able to lift that stone, bypassing the applesauce all together.
In added words, it fabricated you and me and absolute versions of you and me aloof so it could be apprenticed and limited.
Of course, if every burst adaptation of the accepted consciousness, aka you, me and added peeps, all woke up at the aforementioned time and accomplished it was all nonsense/a dream/a drama/a game, the accomplished amusing go annular stops and that can’t be permitted. So the Cosmos actively keeps the all-inclusive majority of bodies in the dark, algid them out with addictions/religion/TV/the Internet/every day thoughts/distractions/trivia/dramas/drugs/alcohol/war and by putting a burnish of absolutely bulletproof benightedness and adamant amaurosis over the minds of anybody in the world, aka Maya. Maya rules accustomed over 99.99999999% of us so that the able comedy goes on and we can all comedy our allotment over and over and over afresh in the festival.
Got all that?
Good.
You may be activity like the babe in this little clip:
I skipped a lot of the algebraic actuality so don’t feel bad if you’re abashed or anticipate I absent commodity and/or I’m crazy/stupid/both/talking out of my ass.
I am. These are aloof words. Don’t anguish about them at all. They don’t beggarly anything.
You don’t accept to acquire any of it. Aloof booty a abysmal breath.
You’re chargeless to disagree with any or all of it.
And it’s not my philosophy, so amuse don’t accomplish that aberration and get mad at me for adage it. I’m aloof summarizing. OK? All good? Great.
Man, the comments are activity to be fucked up on this one aren’t they? So let me aloof say this:
Everything I said is wrong. Don’t acquire any of it. There is annihilation to believe. Aloof accepting fun here. It’s a simple anticipation experiment. Annihilation to be abashed of and annihilation to anguish about at all. It was all aloof a dream.
It’s a chargeless universe, acquire whatever you appetite (which is what you are active to do anyway).
“You booty the dejected pill, the adventitious ends. You deathwatch up in your bed and acquire whatever you appetite to believe.”
All I’m adage is that the boilerplate accomplished geniuses of history tend to appear to some aberration of the aloft aesthetics and so does our boy Rick Sanchez. Here’s Rick’s arbitrary of the aloft in all its succinct, accelerated accuracy afterwards Beth asks him whether she’s evil?
“Worse, you’re smart. Aback you apperceive annihilation affairs the Cosmos is castigation and I’ve never met a Cosmos that was into it. The Cosmos is basically an animal. It grazes on the ordinary. It creates absolute idiots aloof to eat them…You apperceive acute bodies get a adventitious to ascend on top, booty absoluteness for a ride, but it will never stop aggravating to bandy you, and eventually it will. There’s no added way off.”
Essentially it agency that alike aback you can accept the axiological attributes of absoluteness you’re still accountable to it.
The Cosmos will barbecue on you too.
“There’s no added way off.”
In added words:
The alone way out is through.
Still here? Awesome. Now comes the acceptable part.
But aboriginal booty a abysmal breath. We’re cool, right?
Did you accept that drink? Good. Accept another.
Life is a little absurd, right? Am I appropriate or am I right?
But the adventitious doesn’t end there. We’re through the wormhole and there is commodity on the added side.
There’s an old Zen proverb:
“Before broad-mindedness there is the mountain. During broad-mindedness there is no mountain. Afterwards broad-mindedness there is the abundance again.”
What the fuck does that mean?
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It agency that while you’re in the bastard hole, annihilation matters, there is no morality, aggregate is about and annihilation absolutely exists. It’s all an illusion.
And afresh you get over it.
You took a big cruise but you didn’t get anywhere. You deathwatch up afresh and you’re appropriate aback in the dream/video game/simulation/reality. You’re still playing. There’s no way out.
So now what?
Now we accept amount out what the fuck to do with all that appalling knowledge.
And really, the acknowledgment goes appropriate to the actual aspect of the show. How the fuck do you accumulate activity already you apperceive all that?
Krishna’s acknowledgment to Arjuna was appealing simple. The adventitious happens with or afterwards you, so aces up your brand and fight! Anybody is asleep anyway, so booty up your role in the comedy acquiescently and advance the battle. Oh and you can’t absolutely escape, aback we are all actuality for eternity.
But not all of us are warriors. Some of us are aloof regular, every day folk. So how the hell do the abundant belief administer to us? What do we do? Is there any hope?
There is hope!
Ready for it?
There are alone three authentic answers to the ultimate applesauce of life.
The aboriginal is never leave your abode again. OK, aloof kidding. Don’t do that. Amuse don’t do that. There’s a accomplished (imaginary) apple out here, man!
The additional acknowledgment is to advance a absurd faculty of humor. If you watch “Rick and Morty” you’ve already got that box checked.
The third acknowledgment is what the appearance is all about:
Get the fuck out there and accept an amazing adventure!
In added words:
Life is a bare canvas. Paint whatever you want.
Live the activity of your dreams.
Saddle up the cosmos and get out there and adore it in all its multi-resplendent glory.
That is the applesauce of meaninglessness. It can beggarly whatever the hell you appetite it to mean.
Meaning is quantum. Acceptation is contextual.
The building exists for no reason. So does the ant. But as anon as the ant decides to ascend that building they both accept a purpose that’s instantly created through their circle point. The ant wants to ascend and so it now it has acceptation and the building is there so the ant can ascend it so it has acceptation too.
All acceptation comes from your decisions. You charge accomplish a choice. And afresh your purpose is set to adamant rails. Acceptation does not abide a priori, but it springs into absoluteness aback you accomplish your choice. (See the “Monty Python” account for added explanation.)
Actually, the absolute acknowledgment is alike simpler.
The botheration is that you were allurement the amiss question. What is the acceptation of activity is not the catechism you should ask.
The able catechism is:
What does it beggarly to you?
Only you can acknowledgment that.
For Rick it’s award Mulan’s Szechuan sauce.
You should apparently aces a bigger acumen than Rick for afraid about the catholic fun house.
Everyone finds the acknowledgment for themselves. That’s the alone way.
And that’s absolutely the acknowledgment Dan Harmon gives in this ablaze little four minute video alleged “The Chase for Meaning” that explores aggregate we went through actuality in all its alarming glory:
I can’t say it any bigger actually, so I’ll aloof adduce the adept adventitious teller and ability himself because it’s account repeating:
“Do I accede with Rick that annihilation agency anything? No I do not because the ability that annihilation matters, while accurate, gets you nowhere. The planet is dying. The sun is exploding. The cosmos is cooling. Annihilation is activity to matter. The added aback you cull the added that accuracy will endure. But aback you zoom in on Earth, aback you zoom in a family, aback you zoom into a beastly academician and a adolescence and beastly experience, you see all these things that matter. We accept this cursory adventitious to participate in an apparition alleged I adulation my adherent and I adulation my dog. How is that not better?”
How is that not bigger indeed?
So you animate in an illusion. So what? Who cares?
Use your illusion.
And get a pet. Pets are awesome.
Just don’t accord them the “gift” of intelligence so they accept to amount out all this abundant bits or you ability end up in a shitty apology of “Lawnmower Man.”
Anyway. That’s it.
We’re all basically fucked.
The alone sane acknowledgment is amusement and to get out there and accept fun. Actually, Harmon is abundant smarter than me or I would accept created “Rick and Morty” myself, so I’ll let him accept the aftermost chat and bear the acceptation of activity to you with this little aglow blooming gem:
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