“I’m looking to sell the concept of anxiety, it’s still got the dogmatic issue of hereditary sin fully intact. I was looking to maybe even trade it for mediation and complete freedom?”
"Hrrrmm. I don’t know. The best we can do right now is give you the dizziness of freedom. No, you know what, we’ll throw in some mild immediacy to self-conscious reflection, just for you.”
In 1836, the 23-year-old Soren Kierkegaard ran up a debt of 1,262 rixdollars (381 for books, 280 for tailoring, 235 on tea and café meals, and 44 on tobacco, among many other smaller debts), which was more than the annual salary of a university professor. Luckily, his father was one of the richest men in Denmark and put him on a Dave Ramsey-style payment plan.
College students have been coming to terms with their existence by going into debt for years.
