JASON SILVA: There was a great scene
in a movie about these two brothers
that wished to become writers.
We start learning about the story of their unfolding lives,
One of the guys falls in love, and then
his girlfriend commits suicide; something utterly tragic
And then the film continues, and, all of a sudden,
there's a scent that shows him frantically writing down.
And the narrator tells us he felt guilty
over the creativity triggered by his lover's death.
This notion that tragedy can lead to breakthrough,
can lead to rebirth, that the instances of suffering
in our lives can actually inspire
us to make beautiful art is a sort of paradoxical ecstasy,
that we can take our wounds, and we can turn them into something
larger, that we need not have suffered in vain game
is a wild idea, because it doesn't mean that we
It doesn't mean that we wished for these tragic things
to happen to us as artists, but it
means that we're able to take that pain,
take that aching rhapsody and output something in the world
Because at least that way, we validate the fact
We have no choice but to do so.