Just adding in a comment what I wrote in the description: The line, “nothing matters, the importance of nothing,” stays in my head. It really just accentuates the fact that everything should matter. The title, Wolfman, is like deceit, as if the man is trying to hide the fact that he is not a man. It is probably that he himself feels as if he doesn’t live up to the “title.” As if your actions justify your “humanness.” I think it all comes down to self-matter. The concept of existentialism, unlike nihilism, is that nothing matters, therefore everything matters (The Stranger by Albert Camus was phenomenal in describing the feeling). I think when the singer is saying, “that’s what you taught me when I was barely listening,” his ex-girlfriend didn’t believe in the world, and fell into the ‘nothing matters’ mindset. It’s coping, it’s basically escape. But when the counterpoint, “the importance of nothing” plays hope is found. Nothing is still important, because it is *something*. So the whole idea itself is paradoxical. Another way to see it, is that when ‘nothing’ gets assigned to something else, for example ‘friends,’ it’s easier to see the picture. The quote turns into “friends matter, the importance of friends.”The whole idea of friends is what’s making it so important. When Reigen confesses to Mob how he doesn’t have psychic powers, to me, it was the “importance of nothing” in him saying it. Mob probably already knew, but since Reigen’s character relies on deceit, when he told the truth, there was great meaning.
Just adding in a comment what I wrote in the description:
The line, “nothing matters, the importance of nothing,” stays in my head. It really just accentuates the fact that everything should matter.
The title, Wolfman, is like deceit, as if the man is trying to hide the fact that he is not a man. It is probably that he himself feels as if he doesn’t live up to the “title.” As if your actions justify your “humanness.”
I think it all comes down to self-matter. The concept of existentialism, unlike nihilism, is that nothing matters, therefore everything matters (The Stranger by Albert Camus was phenomenal in describing the feeling). I think when the singer is saying, “that’s what you taught me when I was barely listening,” his ex-girlfriend didn’t believe in the world, and fell into the ‘nothing matters’ mindset. It’s coping, it’s basically escape. But when the counterpoint, “the importance of nothing” plays hope is found. Nothing is still important, because it is *something*. So the whole idea itself is paradoxical.
Another way to see it, is that when ‘nothing’ gets assigned to something else, for example ‘friends,’ it’s easier to see the picture. The quote turns into “friends matter, the importance of friends.”The whole idea of friends is what’s making it so important. When Reigen confesses to Mob how he doesn’t have psychic powers, to me, it was the “importance of nothing” in him saying it. Mob probably already knew, but since Reigen’s character relies on deceit, when he told the truth, there was great meaning.