the aesthetic life

Day 460 of 1000: There is No Manual

I found myself trying to live according to a societally-defined manual of how a midlife adult should live. What is an alternative?

Kundera on lightness and heaviness, and the aesthetics of life. Kierkegaard on the aesthetic vs ethical life.

Bauman said that after modernity comes liquid modernity, in which we build our identities via consuming not producing. What to do instead.

Kierkegaard’s aesthetic life vs ethical life. Applying the concept to the movie High Fidelity.