Welcome to the Symposium of the Low Two Seasons. Today we're joined by Rory

and we are going to talk about a very depressing topic.

It's good that you laugh because you know you're going to need it.

We've just been talking about him for so long and I'm

I'm at all it's Sam now.

I'm having to laugh to keep myself saying.

Ah yes.

That's how bleak he is.

Now Schopenhauer is a very depressing person to read.

I definitely don't recommend it if you're depressed.

If you're depressed and you read Schopenhauer, basically you're going to have someone who is going to give you the op the message other than the one you want to hear.

But that doesn't mean that we should never read him.

I think that it is very important to read figures

who tell us bad things about life.

Because sometimes bad things about life or true things about life.

Sure, I do think some of those solutions are well, well-needed lessons.

Yes.

Now when we're talking about this we need to bear in mind that

Schopenhauer is one of those thinkers who constantly hold up a mirror in front of us and himself and tries to say that

this is what life is like and this is what we are like as a human species, look at it, look in front of you,

look in the mirror, don't try to look away.

And he says that if you really look into it you will see that life is basically suffering.

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