Wendy Syfret

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Wendy Syfret


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Wendy Syfret is an award-winning Melbourne based writer, editor, and author of The Sunny Nihilist (Profile) and How to Think Like an Activist (Hardie Grant). She is currently serving as Editor in Chief at RIISE. Previously she was Managing editor of VICE Asia, Head of Editorial for VICE Australia, and Australian editor of pioneering fashion publication i-D. Her work regularly appears in the Guardian, Crikey, Frankie, and the Saturday Paper.

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“Over time, innocuous concepts like meaning and purpose turn corrosive as all the obsessive thought, fixation and study of our own minds and lives fails to return any sense of relief or clarity. In fact, it starts making a lot of us feel worse.”
Wendy Syfret, The Sunny Nihilist: A Declaration of the Pleasure of Pointlessness

“He worried that this approach encouraged apathy and disconnection, and removed personal responsibility. It allowed a person to witness suffering and immediately comfort themselves with the belief it would be addressed in the next life. But if you reject meaning, placing you squarely in the reality of the present moment, accepting there is no cosmic divination or kindness, you are left with the responsibility of acting now. You can’t expect the universe to course correct later.”
Wendy Syfret, The Sunny Nihilist: A Declaration of the Pleasure of Pointlessness

“If you reject meaning, placing you squarely in the reality of the present moment, accepting there is no cosmic divination or kindness, you are left with the responsibility of acting now. You can't expect the universe to course correct later.”
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