🎧 Pet Shop Boys’ 1990 song “Miserablism” 🎧
I could definitely say that the philosophy of Miserablism guided me from my late teens to late 20s. In fact, I think in many ways, it is a philosophy that many post-larval humans go through as we try to figure out shit out as our primate brains reconfigure for adulthood.
Of course, it is made even worse when your firmware is basically coded in nihilism, but what can you do other than deal with reality one day at a time.
In fact, I would add Miserablism to the various human cosplay sub-cultures of goth, emo, punk, straight edge, mod, and the many other sub-cultures that surround most youthful searches for identity.
I still question my identity even at this stage of my life.
I am someone’s son. I am someone’s cousin. I am someone’s nephew. I am someone’s husband. I am someone’s father. I am someone’s grandfather.
But who am I really?
I suppose I’ll be questioning everything I’ve done, everything I’ve ever said, and every decision I’ve ever made even at the moment I take my last breath.