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If you frequent the internet
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you have likely seen memes in videos with a character known as Doomer and or any of his counter characters boomer bloomer and
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Zoomer if you have not these are them each of these characters represents a distinct personality type usually associated with a specific
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Generation within current society. The Doomer character is especially popular and is what we will be focusing on here
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The Doomer is an individual who was typically in their 20s and male
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Although a Doomer in the philosophical sense does not need to be either
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he or she does however need to be someone who feels a sense of aimlessness and
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loneliness and is consequently
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stricken with a deep despair for life
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For the numeron life is meaningless
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And the world is inevitably doomed by humanity's ignorance greed and futility as a result
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The do mercy is little to no reason in engaging in traditional pursuits and thus retreats from society into apathetic isolation
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This character is often used in videos and memes to illustrate various
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Experiences that come with this pessimistic sense of life things like working a dead-end job
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Struggling to maintain or get over romantic relationships excessive drinking and smoking feeling alienated from one's friends and family, etc
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This characters popularity and widespread relatability is very telling about the conditions of the modern person
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specifically that of the current young adult generation it reveals the depth of pessimism and nihilism being
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experienced a hopelessness for both the now and for the future
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one of the dimmers counter characters is the boomer the name being derived from the term baby boomer an individual born between 1946 and
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1964 two generations or so before the Doomer however, the age and generation of a boomer does not necessarily matter
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What does matter is this characters contrasting outlook on life?
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opposed to the Doomer the boomer possesses a
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Positive can-do attitude more specifically in the context of the meme the boomers attitude exists in a naive
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Blissful ignorance of truth the boomer chugs along and they're ignorant delusion unaware of the reality in which they live
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Mistakenly thinking they have it all under control where the Doomer is aware of the world's conditions and consequently pessimistic about them
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The boomer is unaware and thus ignorantly blissful unlike the baby boomers
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The Doomer was born in or around the 90s and grew up through an era when technology
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Developed at an unprecedented rate in an exceptionally small amount of time
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The advent of the Internet as well as affordable Internet devices would completely change the way people could experience and understand the world
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During this internet generation children and young adults had access to a completely open and constant flow of information
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An ability to see/hear talk with an engage in the entire world in real-time all the time
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The world would shrink down to fit in the palm of one's hand allowing one to easily
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See just how absurd chaotic and meaningless
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it truly is as
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A result a huge portion of an entire generation would realize early on that things weren't all good that the can do positive
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Attitude of the boomer was outdated and ignorant of what was really going on
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with lingering counterculture narratives from the 60s and 70s a decreasing popularity and Christianity following the Second World War and an
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increasing access to information
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This generation would be left with no traditional
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Meaning or hope to fall back on the generation where many find a piece of themselves in the Doomer
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So now what are we doomed to exist in a world where the options are either blissful ignorance or informed?
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Melancholy in order to better understand and deal with growing pessimistic and nihilistic tendencies
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It is helpful to refer to the work of 19th century philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche
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Arthur Schopenhauer is often regarded as the philosopher of pessimism
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Arguably the original Doomer like the dimmers outlook for Schopenhauer life is in fact riddled with unavoidable pain
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Meaninglessness and absurdity for Schopenhauer we are prisoners to our unconscious instinct to survive
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Reproduce in sustain existence and in the traditional sense everything we do in life is merely a product of this irrational force
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Void of any purpose other than to continue to sustain itself as a result
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We live a life of delusion
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Constantly in a frenzy trying to impress sexual partners in order to reproduce and trying to accomplish things in order to find happiness
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Schopenhauer writes there's only one inborn error and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy so long as we persist
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In this inborn error the world seems to us full of contradictions
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for at every step and things great and small we are bound to experience that the world in life are certainly not arranged for the
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purpose of maintaining a happy existence in
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Schopenhauer's mind we want so badly to believe that we exist to be happy and to have specific purpose but with an honest
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Examination we realize we do not this perspective does not fall far from that of the Doomer
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Arguably neither the Doomer nor Schopenhauer are necessarily wrong in their assessments of life life is in fact linked with K
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Ah, Spain and fundamental meaninglessness the real problem. However is not found in this realization, but how this realization is handled
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Schopenhauer offered two solutions for the realization of life's meaningless suffering
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asceticism and art
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Asceticism is the disciplined avoidance of pleasure an overcoming of the unconscious desire and pursuit for the selfish immaterial be it things like sex
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Vanity money social status, etc
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Schopenhauer felt that by obtaining control over the ceaseless yearning for things one can find a form of happiness in the present moment
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however
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Schopenhauer also acknowledged the sheer difficulty in accomplishing this feat
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for it is not enough to merely realize the senselessness of one's behaviors in order to stop them from occurring the level of discipline and
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Commitment required would prove immensely difficult for even the wisest of individuals
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Alternatively in Schopenhauer provided one other solution engaging in the aesthetics of art and philosophy as much as possible in this Schopenhauer
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Suggested that things like poetry theater music paintings literature theory, etc
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Have the power to reveal and share truth a truth that liberates the individual during the moments he or she is engaging in it
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By expressing our pains and sufferings or engaging in the expressions of others
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we feel less imprisoned and less disillusioned in ourself with this one does not need to find anything worthwhile or ultimately meaningful in the
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Materialistic or traditional world beyond the mere expression of one's disinterest and pain within it in expressing pain and absurdity through arts and philosophy
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The pain and absurdity is transmuted into wonder and purpose for oneself as well as others
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Interestingly enough the Doomer meme itself embodies this idea
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the creation sharing an engaging of Doomer content is an example of a Doomer expressing their sense of Doom and
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Translating it into something enjoyable and meaningful in an attempt to take this idea further
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We will look to the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche a philosopher renowned for his nihilistic take on life
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nihilism is the belief in nothing the principle that nothing has any
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Fundamental meaning at the end of itself and that life is and will always involve a suffering through this meaninglessness
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During his life in the 19th century
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Nietzsche found that traditional religion ceased to help the modern person in dealing with the pains of life and that nihilism was the only rational
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And practical approach that remained
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However for Nietzsche the meaninglessness found in Nile is did not suggest that we should give up and retreat into a dull
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Apathetic life rather the realization that life is meaningless permits the individual to look inside him or herself and create their own meaning and self-identity
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The world is full of systems and pressures to conform to the collective
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Religions traditions and mass movements that attempt to lead us in certain arbitrary directions
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The individual Nietzsche writes has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe
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If you try it
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You will be lonely often and sometimes frightened but no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself
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the pressure of accepting mass
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Methodologies and principles in life is has and will always be immense the resistance of such comes with feelings of alienation
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And hardship however for Nietzsche the pain of caving in is infinitely worse in the context of modern times
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Perhaps the Doomer feels a heightened alienation from the world because the internet compounds the weight of social pressure and a sense of detachment
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however
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This experience of alienation and despair is not unnatural nor without value rather one must walk deliberately through the mud of life
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realizing that there will be ongoing pains and challenges in their
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Self-actualization and instead of turning away from them lean into them and face the sufferings head-on
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Developing themselves and their personal meaning no matter how uncommon or hard it may be
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Nietzsche felt that the key to suffering is knowing how to use suffering I
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Assessed the power of a will by how much resistance pain torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage Nietzsche rides
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By inviting suffering in and recognizing it as an opportunity to develop wisdom and resilience
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We utilize it as a method of creating our own purpose and greatness in the fundamental pain and meaninglessness of life
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We must not find ourselves with an indifference that renders us
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Lethargic and paralysed away from caring about anything but rather an indifference that inspires us to create meaning and care for things we deem enjoyable
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and engaging
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for both Nietzsche and Schopenhauer
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The greatest reason for life is found in the self
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Realization and self expression of one's unique truth the utilization of the suffering and chaos in life and turning it into wonder wisdom and greatness
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With this in mind if we square away our life as best
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We can accepting the inevitable chaos and suffering if we obtain the money we can want to need to sustain our life
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attempting to keep a close eye on our unconscious irrational desires and if we live with an interest to create personal meaning in
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And expressive activities then we can build a life worth living even in the face of apparent chaos doom or futility
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this attitude can be found in the hopeful Doomer character bloomer a
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Character who in the meme possesses the awareness of the sad and painful realities of life
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but still sees that there could be purpose to it all still sees that there's an opportunity for meaning and wonder to be created and
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experienced and that however messy the world may be it is still worth playing in and trying to make the most of
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