Hello everyone, I'm Steven West. This is philosophized this. So some news right out of the gate here.

A couple episodes ago, I said that I was going to release the next episode in four days,

and I ended up not feeling good enough to record it for a while, and it ended up taking way longer.

Never want to let down the listeners of this show, you people make my life possible,

and I'm honestly pretty embarrassed by it. So as an apology, and hopefully a sign of things to come,

not charging anyone on Patreon for this episode at all. This episode is a gift from me that I hope

you'll accept and enjoy. Really never want to let anyone down moving forward. That said,

of course, I have friends that read philosophy that I tell that I'm going to do this,

and they can find the problems in anything. Trust me. My friend said, this is disguised as a nice

gesture by you, but it's actually really patronizing of you. No pun intended. He said, you're acting like

the assistant manager at a restaurant that tries to comp your entire meal because he ordered chicken

fingers and they brought you a mac and cheese. It's like, no, no, I don't want a free meal. No,

I want to pay for what I asked for. Promise. If you got to know me, I'm not a patronizing person.

I really was just trying to do something nice for people, but to satisfy both sides of this great

philosophical debate, I'm putting up a tea spring campaign with the six color philosophizes t-shirt

available for the next week. People seem to want shirts, so I want to do that for them as well.

So if you want to support the show, if that's something you're going to do, I guess you can do that.

Teespring.com slash philosophize this. Today's episode, though, is on another great philosophical

debate, the age-old classic debate of being versus becoming. I hope you love the show today.

So with all this recent talk about comedy, I thought it would be fitting to begin our episode

here today with a passage from the philosopher Frederick Nietzsche and his famous book The Will to

Power. Nietzsche writes this, quote, perhaps I know best why man alone laughs? He alone suffers so

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