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PHILOSOPHY— — 5 min read

Weltschmerz and Mannequins Amongst Public Soul.

A stark meditation on solitude, power, and inner truth, exposing the illusion of modern unity and the sovereign path of the solitary individual

Bailey Booth

Weltschmerz and Mannequins Amongst Public Soul.
Weltschmerz (German: [ˈvɛltʃmɛɐ̯ts]; literally "world-pain") is a literary concept describing the feeling experienced by an individual who believes that reality can never satisfy the expectations of the mind, resulting in "a mood of weariness or sadness about life arising from the acute awareness of evil and suffering"