@thederangedpenguin: #thepenguin #lockedin #penguin #mentality The “penguin edit” refers to a scene from Werner Herzog’s documentary Encounters at the End of the World, in which a lone penguin leaves its group and heads toward the mountains, refusing to be returned. Audiences have interpreted the moment as an act of free will, a nihilistic rejection of routine, or a source of motivation. As Herzog asks “but why?” over an organ rendition of L’amour toujours, the scene has come to be seen as a moment of spiritual and philosophical awakening for the flightless bird. “I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible” — Friedrich Nietzsche