The Philosophy of Xavier: Renegade Angel Pt.1

Xavier: Renegade Angel was a CGI late night show on adult swim what was filled with satire and surreal imagery pertaining to the absurdity of some philosophy. 

The show centered around Xavier, a wondering philosopher/ wise man creature in his quest to find out "what doth life".

                                          


Pretty much the entire point of the show was to poke fun at philosophy while also being completely centered in philosophy and some mysticism. An example of this would be that every time the word "life" is said by anyone in the show it echoes.

Xavier Is constantly spewing nonsensical philosophical quotes such as "what doth life?" and "I'm a survivor. We're a dying breed." 

These types of quotes mixed with the surrealism and down right morbid humor of this show result to the situations such as this:

There is a man with a barcode for a face (which some people would say is the biblical manifestation of "the beast") in the middle of no where asking people if they believe in "God" and if they do, he shoots them. The barcode man points the gun at Xavier and asks him if he believes in God, of corse being a philosopher Xavier feels the need to first define what they both mean by God by saying "That's a complicated question. It depends on what you mean by "God"..."It helps no one to be reductive. I believe that we are here implies to some degree that there are forces larger than us. Now, we can get into the semanticalities"..."The very notion of belief itself can be rhetorically whittled to the bare nub of its meaning."..."I'd like to talk to you a lot more about this. Would you be interested in reading some of my literature?". In which the barcode man replies by just shooting himself.

That is an extremely morbid example of how this show uses its centering on philosophy to make fun of the absurdity of some philosophers. It is satirical in the way that it shows how some modern philosophers have a tendency to just ramble on and not connect with who they are talking to.