• Grippler@feddit.dk
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    4 months ago

    Exactly… I find it quite interesting how some perceive the theme of the comic as depressing while others find it beautiful.

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      The story goes that after Wittgenstein published his monumental theoretical treatise on theory - the Tractatus Philosophicus - he became a gardener, or elementary school teacher, maybe both, I can’t remember.

      But the point of the story, as I interpret it, is that the road of intellectual labor leads back to simplicity, and that is a comforting thought, also very Japanese, Zen-like.