Existentialism: No News is Good News

[Coeruleum Blue]

If a philosopher or author calls themselves an existentialist, I think that's when you run. Most religious people seem to love Kierkegaard and most atheists seem to love Sartre. I feel like I'm going to be booted from polite society for saying this, but I hate them both, and not even with any kind of passion. I like some people who get called existentialists, but not ones who called themselves that, for example: Camus, Beckett, Kafka, Nietzsche. Those people are talented writers, and I think ideological existentialists would be nowhere if not for saying "I'm just like Kafka!" (Ideological absurdism just comes off as an edgy way of discussing uncertainty and misunderstandings, and seems never to have considered itself the same as Sartre's ideological existentialism.) However, they all managed not to give into despair, much less to preach the despair, insanity, and confusion to others, which now affects the entire world we live in, especially the most parochial backwater regions, contrary to what many people may expect. Oh, and Heidegger somehow seems fine despite Sartre using his work as the basis of his own awful proselytizing.

[Coeruleum Blue]

Your love is like bad faith
Bad faith is what I need, whoa
Shake it up just like bad faith
There ain't no Sartre that can cure my thinking
Bad faith
I ain't got a fever, got a permanent disease
And it'll take more than a doctor to prescribe a remedy
I got lots of money but it isn't what I need
Gonna take more than a shot to get this poison out of me
And I got all the symptoms count 'em one, two, three
First you need (that's what you get for falling in love)
Then you bleed (you get a little but it's never enough)
And when you're on your knees (that's what you get for falling in love)
Now, this boy's addicted 'cause your kiss is the drug, whoa
Your love is like bad faith, bad faith is what I need, whoa
Shake it up just like bad faith
There ain't no doctor that can cure my disease
Bad, bad faith
I don't need no needle to be givin' me a thrill
And I don't need no anesthesia or a nurse to bring a pill
I got a dirty down addiction that doesn't leave a track
I got a jones for your affection like a monkey on my back
There ain't no paramedic gonna save this heart attack
When you need (that's what you get for falling in love)
Then you bleed (you get a little but it's never enough)
And when you're on your knees (that's what you get for falling in love)
Now, this boy's addicted 'cause your kiss is the drug, whoa
Your love is like bad faith, bad faith is what I need, whoa
Shake it up just like bad faith
So let's play doctor, baby, cure my disease
Bad, bad faith
Is what I want
Bad, bad faith
Ow, it's what I need
I need a respirator 'cause I'm running out of breath
But you're an all night generator wrapped in stockings and a dress
When you find your faith you take what you can get
'Cause if there's something better, baby, well they haven't found it yet
Whoa
Your love is like bad faith, bad faith is what I need, whoa
Shake it up just like bad faith
There ain't no doctor that can cure my disease
Your love, bad faith
Bad faith is what I need, whoa
Shake it up just like bad faith
Your love's the potion that can cure my disease
Bad, bad faith
Is what I want
Bad, bad faith
Ooh baby, ooh baby
Bad, bad faith (I gotta, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta)
I gotta, I gotta
I gotta do it again, wait a minute, wait a minute
Hold on
I'm not done
One more time
With feeling
Come on
Help me out now
Your love is like bad faith
Bad faith is what I need, whoa
Shake it up just like bad faith
You got the potion that can cure my disease
Your love, bad faith
Your kiss is what I need
Your love, bad faith


I'm going to properly finish this later, but "bad faith" just makes me feel edgy like "bad medicine" instead of encouraging me to become a good little existentialist.