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weltschmerz
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context sometimes capitalized English) world-weariness; an apathetic or pessimistic view of life; depression concerning or discomfort with the human condition or state of the world.
Wikipedia
Weltschmerz (from the German, meaning world-pain or world-weariness, ) is a term coined by the German author Jean Paul and denotes the kind of feeling experienced by someone who believes that physical reality can never satisfy the demands of the mind. This kind of world view was widespread among several romantic authors such as Lord Byron, Giacomo Leopardi, François-René de Chateaubriand, Alfred de Musset, Nikolaus Lenau, Hermann Hesse, and Heinrich Heine. It is also used to denote the feeling of anxiety caused by the ills of the world.
Weltschmerz is a weekly comic strip in Canada, written and drawn by cartoonist Gareth Lind. The strip, which is published in alternative newsweeklies such as Eye Weekly, offers political and social satire with a regular cast of characters, similar to Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau, but with more emphasis on caricature.
Characters in the strip include computer geek Horst Weltschmerz, his girlfriend Celia Jones, his friends Frank, Cindy, Cosmo and Max, and Max's partner Des. Political figures such as George W. Bush, Stephen Harper and Dalton McGuinty also appear as characters.
Current storylines include: Horst and Celia attempt to have a child (so far unsuccessfully); Raj is first held in prison on a security certificate, then extradited to Pakistan on suspicion of being a terrorist, then kidnapped by terrorists; and Frank runs for Liberal leader on a porn-based platform.
The Weltschmerz web site has recently been expanded to a blog-based format, allowing an archive that can be sorted by theme and character.
The first Weltschmerz collection, Attack of the Same-Sex Sleeper Cells, was self-published in spring 2006.