Conan O'Brien: "Eventually, all our graves go unattended"
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Clark Gable doesn't make the news anymore but he's still famous. A lot of ill-gotten fame these days could use a good dying out though.
Yeah it's pretty sobering. If Conan is having existential thoughts, us mere mortals who don't even have a TV show will be forgotten after 2nd generation.
You just have to be as good as Shakespeare and people will remember you daily for hundreds of years and still going strong.
From the full NY Times interview
Seems like the new version of the show will have a much smaller set. I always thought Conan's TBS and Tonight Show sets were way too big for him. It diluted his energy. I loved Late Night with Conan O'Brien. The smaller stage there served him better.
Seems like the new version of the show will have a much smaller set. I always thought Conan's TBS and Tonight Show sets were way too big for him. It diluted his energy. I loved Late Night with Conan O'Brien. The smaller stage there served him better.
That realization is what helps me keep warding off my depression. In the end it is all meaningless, and I find that insanely comforting.
Our name will only be an echo in the wind, there's no greater liberty than the thought that you really don't matter and that you can do what you want.
I have this thought all the time... which is why I will never be buried or put anywhere. You will have a generation, maybe two... then you're just there, a name and no one remembers you or what you did, or who you were. You can go dark, real quick on that thought... but I'm with him that ultimately, for 99.9% of us, the whole thing is "meaningless" in that our individual outcomes shape the generations we're in, but nothing after. Your story is done, you're just taking up space.
I've got some Batman v Superman fanfiction I'm working on that I think is really gonna make a splash.
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My gravestone will read: "I'LL BE BACK!"
Everyone's gonna remember me.
I don't know my maternal grandparents' full names. I'd have to look them up.
And even if you say nothing, he'll still somehow say less than you, as he would've in life.
Same for me, and I'm not even depressed. I think the world would be a better place if more people realized that in a few years we will all be dead and eventually forgotten.
I feel bad for the good people who get caught up in feeling small and powerless, that they go their entire lives in a panic trying to leave some mark on the world. If it happens, it happens. Chances are, it wont. I'm so grateful to have my life, my memories, my little family. That's all more than enough for me, personally. All I ask is that I can get the most out of my small, short and meaningless existence.
I'd love to leave even a little Mark on the world, but I have told myself over the years that if I don't, and only my friends remember me and family, I'm not going to know anyway. So just enjoy while it lasts and what happens happens. I could have just not existed.
You can get technical about scientific advancement and whatnot, but for most of the population this true.
And that's ok. It's nothing to be sad about, like he says. You make the most of every day you're on this planet, whether that's learning, building a career, or just plain playing video games. Be happy you got to experience Into the Spiderverse or Bloodborne or your relationships. Life is what you make of it and nothing more, nothing less.
And that's ok. It's nothing to be sad about, like he says. You make the most of every day you're on this planet, whether that's learning, building a career, or just plain playing video games. Be happy you got to experience Into the Spiderverse or Bloodborne or your relationships. Life is what you make of it and nothing more, nothing less.
On an infinite scale of time and space, he's right of course. But there are people who have been dead for thousands of years whose names we still know and whose works we still enjoy on some level. Very few people can reach that status, of course. And no one is literally hanging out at Plato's "grave," but he's still a very important figure in history that we still learn about today.
That said, are kids in 2500 years going to be learning about Conan O'Brien? Probably not.
That said, are kids in 2500 years going to be learning about Conan O'Brien? Probably not.
Yep. I can just hope to pass on whatever good my children can take from me, have them refine it and keep doing the same until it stops.
I always think of Asimovs Foundation Trilogy, and how it was far enough in the future that no one even remembered where humanity came from.
The entire Earth will someday be a forgotten relic.
The entire Earth will someday be a forgotten relic.
I mean, you have an impact on something, somewhere, all the time. Even a hermit leaves something behind when they die, and that has some kind of effect down the line.
Your changes probably won't be credited to your name generations from now, but they'll still be felt somehow.
If I ever see Calvin Coolidge's grave, I'll be sure to piss on it.
Racist piece of shit.
Conan is right too.
Racist piece of shit.
Conan is right too.
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