Existentialism was a dominant philosophy in theatre plays written from the 1940s through the 1960s. We enjoyed theatre of the absurd - there was much comedy infused in it.
The original idea of existentialism is a philosophical theory or approach which emphasizes the existence of the individual subject as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will. The view of the existentialist, the individual's starting point has been called "the existential angst" or a sense disorientation, confusion, or anxiety in the face of an apparently meaningless or absurd world. The notion of the absurd contains the idea that there is no meaning in the world beyond what meaning we give it. This meaninglessness also encompasses the amorality or "unfairness" of the world. Because of the world's absurdity, anything can happen to anyone at any time and a tragic event could plummet someone into direct confrontation with the absurd.
Global catastrophic risk has become associated with the risks to all of human kind, and we've now named the highest risk level - existential risk - the one leading to the destruction of all humanity. e An existential risk one that either destroys humanity entirely or prevents any chance of civilization's recovery.
So the question is whether COVID-19 can destroy humanity in its entirety. The risk levels of of COVID-19 and of Climate Change are being distinguished at the most serious levels: between existential and global catastrophic risk.
The philosophical version can be found in many jokes:
After my existential crisis, I decided to take a job as a feeder at the local dolphinarium Now I’m serving a youthful porpoise
Why did the dictionary have an existential breakdown? He couldn’t find the meaning of life
Existential Java: I mixed de-caf coffee with regular coffee and they must have cancelled each other out because now I feel nothing
If I had a dollar for every time I had an existential crisis Would it even matter?
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