Just as Laura Whitmore finished her reading of Nietzsche, she turned around to the Love Island cast to see that, surprisingly, all of them had paid attention.
The show had scrapped a performance by Macklemore, which he received in a deflated way as if it had been inevitable, and the philosophy reading took place.
It was a new experiment, different than what the production department would usually scrape together: a movie night or a game of ‘Body Beer Pong’.
Their expressions had changed. Davide looked at Ekin Su and immediately said, “how will you ever truly know me when I don’t know myself,” but Ekin confused “ever know me” for “get onto me” and tried to cuddle him in bed, which was, after all, a helpful form of remedy.
Lucca rejected his God concept, regressed to his time as a youth pastor, and realized that what he truly yearned for was a path to purpose and that philosophy would be his guide. In three years, he would become an Emeritus Scholar- once even sitting with Mensa- and reject society altogether.
