Existential Dread Starter Pack

The overture. Rationality is a cage and the narrator is gnawing the bars.

Guilt with no crime. Bureaucracy as metaphysics.

The chestnut tree root scene. You'll never look at a park bench the same way.

Indifference as a worldview.

The way out, sort of. Rolling the rock, smiling.

The counterweight. Meaning is found in how we meet suffering.

Bonus round: what if consciousness itself is a mistake?