Welcome reader!
I present to you, The Tragedy of Vanitor, where A.W. Borestead explores the idea of existing in the universe and being told to choose meaning and values without ultimate grounding metaphysical truths. This piece is a dramatic monologue filled with existential dread, where the narrator, speaking perhaps of author himself, wrestles with his death of certainty.
This work follows four foundations:
- That the observable universe, by itself provides no grounding for meaning and values.
- That the human day-to-day requires decisions to be made that are based on meaning and values.
- That this tension forces each human to arbitrarily create its own meaning and values.
- That this leads to a deification of self, which is self-defeating in principle. When everyone becomes a god, no one is.
Borestead became depressed by these conclusions, which led him evidently to write the work I now present to you. His view was that this realization of self-deification would dissolve society into chaos, but you can draw your own conclusions.