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Thinking evil means making evil. The passions become evil and insidious when they are considered evil and insidious. Nietzsche.
What do we do when we’ve used up the last reserve of past centuries and all we’re left with is the uncanny emptiness of our post-culture? We attempt to convert the emptiness to fullness, as if trying to turn carbon dioxide back into oxygen. We start arguments that have no consequences; debate the pet projects of academics that have trickled into the mainstream and accumulated there like toxins.
While the rest of the world is seemingly consumed with this atavistic plague panic, I simply wonder how to live a good life; I haven’t lost sight of the real existential — the relationship of the individual to eternity.
I don’t know what I’d do if I did.
Self-surveillance, paralyzing moral expectations, the neurotic disavowal of all animal, selfish impulses: this is our modern condition.
Behind the mask wearing, Trump hating liberal is a sneer — and hatred, disdain, violence… a lust for revenge. The mode of liberalism that younger people are articulating, is predicated on a hypertrophied precautionary principle… an intolerance who anyone de-suburbanizes and de-kindergartenizes the world.
