"Always remember that for the existentialists, when you’re tempted toward thinking that your self has an essential timeless structure, it’s always a sign that some internal weakness in you is gaining expression. Why do people turn to fixed truths about the world and about themselves? Well, change is difficult; it requires adjustment, the constant reshuffling of desires, and the frustration of not satisfying some desires in you that are no longer seen as appropriate. Change is just painful, and for those who, out of weakness, prefer the
security of happiness to being unique individuals (remember, for Nietzsche, these aren’t necessarily correlated!), timeless truths are just what the doctor ordered! Unfortunately, that doctor isn’t concerned with your existential health! Nietzsche, on the other hand, is."
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