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I agree with Blake that Satan is the hero of Paradise Lost. Fuck this shit, indeed. But also...fuck the shit out of this shit. I like Cioran and Schop...

I can't pretend to answer this neutrally. For me the 'spirit of seriousness' is a fallen state, which is not to say that it can be avoided, or that we...

If you got some parents drunk, maybe they'd confess that it's selfish to make babies. What in this world is more delightful than a happy baby? I don't...

That's a great question with an endless answer. I'm using 'shaman' somewhat metaphorically when I say that comedians and some philosophers are shamans...

It is hard to laugh during a root canal, no doubt. I suppose I'm saying that 'spiritual' pain is sometimes contaminated by a wicked pleasure (and the ...

Beckett's another example of first-rate comedian. Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. How is it that saying the worst,...

What comes to my mind is algorithmic information theory, not the gritty details but the philosphical inspiration from Leibniz. The best theory best co...

To some degree I think this already exists. Seinfeld loves to talk about how annoying everything is, ad he's ridiculously wealthy. But even without th...

I think one of the things that 180proof was getting at, which I agree with and will put in my own words, is that people aren't fundamentally rational....

Is this so obvious? I agree that sex is mediated, but so are the others. Eat spaghetti with your hands. Take a shit and omit the wipe. Things will not...

I'd say check out his early works. Or one of my favorites, because it's so side, The German Ideology. What do you make of this quote? It summarizes mu...

First answer: There's a way you can play this where it is a false dichotomy. But you have to go out into the desert and live on locusts and honey. If ...

I've never been thirsty for it myself. One of my friends has become somewhat wealthy, and it's a little awkward. Chris Rock jokes about men being will...

I'm about to reread Cousin Bette, the only Balzac I've read. But, yeah! We all love and need money, and so all worship it to some degree, but perhaps ...

This touches on one of the big issues of life. Even a socialist can't help turning up his nose at some people, in his heart if not in his public actio...

I've tended to view things this way. Perhaps academia is a kind of middle path. The respected researcher making 120K might feel greatly superior to th...

You make a great point about the pridefulness of Cioran. As Cioran says somewhere, he's been a student all his life and is proud to have done nothing....

Sounds about right. This can take complicated forms, of course, which look like humility to the unwary. Also seems important that people want to share...

There's a Christian theme about loss and disaster being the path itself, the door. It's as if we have to be broken open, humiliated. Our pride in our ...