In an early draft of the Resonant Frequency I wrote last year about rap, fear, aggression & Odd Future, I included a bit about how I was afraid of heights not because I was afraid of falling accidentally but because I was afraid that I might jump. But I cut that b/c there was some concern that no one would know what I was talking about and maybe it looked a little crazy. I watched the newest Louie last night and (spoiler alert) at the end Parker Posey says to Louie that he is afraid to sit on the ledge of a building because a small part of him wants to jump. It was word for word almost. And I thought “No wonder I love this guy’s work.” He’s sharing things I’m afraid to share.

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  1. rough-n-uncouth reblogged this from markrichardson
  2. imathers said: It’s from Sartre! That’s what he says vertigo is in Being and Nothingness.
  3. keepfrozen said: I’ve actually heard this as an evolutionary explanation for the fear of heights - that wobbly, uneasy feeling you get on the edge of something is your logical frontal lobe battling it out with a deeper monkey urge to leap towards the next branch.
  4. opinionsareforming said: This is the exact metaphor that my roommate used to explain existentialism to me. Existential angst, he told me, is the fear not that you will fall from a cliff, but that you will jump.
  5. thismachinekillscapitalists said: Wow, I can totally relate to this, although I’ve never been able to put that strange feeling into words. Fantastic.
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