It is demoralising when disabled people like Vervoort express – understandably – exhaustion with the everyday struggle of existence and discouragement with life and are met with sad, understanding nods.
"A powerful story as much about the beauty of the world as the struggle of existence; it emanates a slow-burn kind of energy.
Surely, this insight owes more to the struggle of existence than to abstract speculation.
He is expressing his belief, which owes something to Rousseau, that humanity is always in a state of conflict, and that the struggles of existence strengthen man's nature.
The final theme, "The Human Condition," covers something that perhaps seems obvious but is frequently overlooked in discussions of contemporary art — that artists everywhere deal with the stuff of daily life, the core struggles of existence.
We do not have to be beholden to any pre-given values, moral or religious or otherwise: if we embrace the absurd then we can choose to live, to confront the struggles of existence, by whatever standards we might please.
The film reminds us, with Beckett-like precision, of the struggle of daily existence: you manage to fix one thing, then something else begins to leak: ad infinitum, as for Sisyphus.
"Probably a period of struggle for existence and survival is coming," said Dmitri Lutsenko, a member of the board of directors for Mr. Polonsky's Mirax Group, which is building Europe's tallest skyscraper beside the Moscow River.
Professionally and intellectually a tough, self-made man, he was naturally inclined to join Herbert Spencer and others in applying to human society Charles Darwin's biological theory of the struggle for existence and survival of the fittest.
In "Mein Kampf," from which he would make millions, he emphasized the hard struggle for existence of the "upstart" who had risen "by his own efforts from his previous position in life to a higher one," that "kills all pity" and destroys "feeling for the misery of those who have remained behind".
Most pernicious was the crude extension by Spencer and others of the notion of the "struggle for existence" to human economic and social life that became known as social Darwinism (see below Scientific acceptance and extension to other disciplines).
