Existentialism Argumentative Essay

From the beginning of time, it has been bred into our lives to incessantly create patterns that help form a basis of reality and how to adapt to that reality. During the earliest times of human existence, we were faced with the burden of overcoming the harsh realities of the world and have strived to create certain ideologies in order to survive. This created a sense of anxiety that was essential to human nature. However, as the world progressed, this anxiety translated from analyzing and interpreting information to survive into us creating a basis of how the world works, how human nature works, et cetera. Thus, we began to attempt to overcome this anxiety bred into us by adapting to the world around us. Throughout time, we have attempted to define each generation based on these adaptations of the everchanging world we live in. Today, we are faced with the age of uncertainty.
Over the years, the question of our identity has arbitrarily been at the backs of our mind, which came to a peak during the existentialism era. During World War II, the government was beginning to …show more content…
This perpetuates the problem by creating an idealistic standard of your viewpoints and has the implication of normalizing the society within these pockets. As this normalization happens, societies often lose the ability to think for themselves and have their own individualistic characteristics. Therefore, this creates the perception within our generation that we are supposed to strive for a certain idealized standard of appearance as well as thought process. This only suppresses the creative bursts of energy within us until it withers away and is forced into the deep pits of darkness within us, as we distract ourselves with the mundane acts of normalizing as a way of seeking validation within our communities, rather than within