“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
―Philip Freneau
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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?
Archilochus
The human race is an obvious failure on the evolutionary scale. We must voluntarily submit to surgical sterilization, forgo further reproduction of our benighted species, and voluntarily work to achieve extinction. It's the only decent thing we could do.
If it's natural, it's wrong.
If it's pleasurable, it's evil.
Complete, rigidy steadfast denial of all natural impulses –– including the will to live –– must be forcefully implemented. Failure to comply must result in summary execution.
Mother Ann Lee thought sex the greatest evil human beings had to bear. She, apparently, had a very unhappy marriage to a man names Abraham Standerin, and a terrible time in childbirth, so she emigrated to the USA and founded a religion that eschewed sex completely. Despite it's bizarre stance, the movement demjnstrated many splendid virtues, and prospered for a considerable length of time in New England, and as far west as Ohio and, I believe, Kentucky. An interesting experiment to say the least, but of course it ultimately failed, because of it's proscription against marriage and reproduction.
Nature, I suspect, will always trump all in the long run.
It was in reference to your comment, "Life Stinks, give it up."
Sounds like a pretty "cynical" statement, meriting a "critique of cynical reason" (ala Kant's critiques of Pure Reason, Practical Reason and Judgement).
Sloterdijk concludes that, unlike the ancient Greek version, Cynicism no longer stands for values of the natural and ethical kind that bind people beyond their religious and economically useful convictions. Rather, it has become a mode of thought that defines its actions in terms of a "final end" of a purely materialistic sort and reduces the "ought" to an economic strategy aimed at maximizing profit. This contemporary sort of Cynicism remains silent, however, when it comes to social, anthropogenous, and altruistic goals having to do with the "in" and "for" of the "good life" the original Cynics were seeking.
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The human race is an obvious failure on the evolutionary scale. We must voluntarily submit to surgical sterilization, forgo further reproduction of our benighted species, and voluntarily work to achieve extinction. It's the only decent thing we could do.
If it's natural, it's wrong.
If it's pleasurable, it's evil.
Complete, rigidy steadfast denial of all natural impulses –– including the will to live –– must be forcefully implemented. Failure to comply must result in summary execution.
Humanity's new motto must be
LIFE STINKS, so GIVE IT UP.
A Critique of Cynical Reason....
Mother Ann Lee thought sex the greatest evil human beings had to bear. She, apparently, had a very unhappy marriage to a man names Abraham Standerin, and a terrible time in childbirth, so she emigrated to the USA and founded a religion that eschewed sex completely. Despite it's bizarre stance, the movement demjnstrated many splendid virtues, and prospered for a considerable length of time in New England, and as far west as Ohio and, I believe, Kentucky. An interesting experiment to say the least, but of course it ultimately failed, because of it's proscription against marriage and reproduction.
Nature, I suspect, will always trump all in the long run.
I'm not at all sure what you meant when you made reference to A Critique of Cynical Reason, Thersites.
I have little talent for interpreting cryptic remarks, but a desire for genuine understanding, so would you mind elucidating a bit?
It was in reference to your comment, "Life Stinks, give it up."
Sounds like a pretty "cynical" statement, meriting a "critique of cynical reason" (ala Kant's critiques of Pure Reason, Practical Reason and Judgement).
Sloterdijk concludes that, unlike the ancient Greek version, Cynicism no longer stands for values of the natural and ethical kind that bind people beyond their religious and economically useful convictions. Rather, it has become a mode of thought that defines its actions in terms of a "final end" of a purely materialistic sort and reduces the "ought" to an economic strategy aimed at maximizing profit. This contemporary sort of Cynicism remains silent, however, when it comes to social, anthropogenous, and altruistic goals having to do with the "in" and "for" of the "good life" the original Cynics were seeking.
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