Fun Hero: Werner Herzog
Role Model for Freedom
People say that you shouldn’t be so open minded that your brain falls out. I DISAGREE!! And so does Werner Herzog.
Let a penguin be a nihilist.
Witness the death of the man who took too big a risk.
Eat a shoe.
Calmly get shot during an interview.
Drag a ship over a mountain.
STARE INTO THE VOID OF HISTORY AND FIND MEANING THERE!
Pathology is fascinating
Why is it even bad to be insane? Because you’re not contributing to the economy? Who cares!
Why is any human behavior even pathological? Who decides? It should be Werner Herzog.
Ideas for Herzog
- Homeless with needles as achievement of peak hedonism
- Schizophrenia as fluidity within the realms
- “Laying flat” as proof of the achievement of our ancestors goals
- Self-harming to reach Nirvana - meditating to death, minimalism as self-harm, etc.
THE MADMAN IS THE MOST RATIONAL PERSON IN THE ROOM
My Favorite quote
From Grizzly Man (2005) “Here I differ from Treadwell. He seemed to ignore the fact that in nature there are predators. I believe the common denominator of the universe isn’t harmony, but chaos, hostility, and murder.”