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Editorial

You Always Have a Choice!

Given the current fashion for referendums Rick Lewis has decided to offer you a choice of editorials. Pick wisely!

Despairing Editorial

Welcome to Philosophy Now’s new issue on Existentialism. We have to do an Existentialism-themed issue every couple of years because you people apparently never get tired of those gloomy, angst-ridden, black-polo-necked, coffee-swilling Parisian poseurs. I hope you realise how tough it is for us, having to produce features on Sisyphus and the meaninglessness of life over and over again. It seems like we are trapped in an Eternal Return of the same, and yet at the same time we are reproached and taunted at every moment by the knowledge that we are actually completely and inescapably free – free to turn Philosophy Now into a golfing magazine, free to paint the editorial office bright purple, free even to end it all (for example by selling the magazine to the Vasto Publishing Corporation and running off to Brazil with the proceeds, if we can get a really cheap flight). So why do we not do so? Our failure to constantly weigh these options clearly shows we are in Bad Faith.

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