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I'll take my Sopranos with a supersize side of that other HBO show, please.
I appreciate the point of view in this article. I'm attracted to existential perspectives myself. However, I'm glad I live in a world where we can recognize some essential meaninglessness in even our noblest endeavors, and also strive for ideals, however chimerical, however fractious and fragmented, however often we learn in retrospect that we were on the wrong track. Meaninglessness is ... well, meaningless if taken absolutely. Where we go wrong is not in having or striving for ideals, but in deluding ourselves that any of them are ultimate, unchangeable or, in a word, transcendent.
That's why I only love The Sopranos in a world where there's The Wire, too.