Cormac McCarthy on Arthur Schopenhauer 

Beautiful quote!

Thanks for the correction!

Thanks!

You have the right engagement sis, I appreciate people like you

Yes!

Awesome brotha! Thanks for the reinforcement! If you have a bunch of time and like Durant read the Story of Civilization series. It is slightly outdated, but is such a fun read with his style.

@@WriteConscious already ahead of you! Got my girlfriend grabbing that for me for Christmas lol. Or at least a few volumes. I can tell we would be friends

of course we would brotha! Hit me up over email sometime!

@@WriteConscious will def do that my friend

Sleepers don't polarize in any direction and are unconsciously guided by dominant forces. They're not renouncing life with non-action with their consumerism. They're not participating in changing the world in any direction. They are also because of the general programming of society being net negatives with their thoughts, actions, and energy. I feel the idea of an indifferent world pushing us in arbitrary directions is one of many spiritual gatekeepers that prevent us from achieving True Care. It's important to implode polarities and values because people have used similar messaging as an excuse to dominate (kill, subvert, convert) the "sleepers." However, with a proper axiomatic philosophy embedded with non-violence, the will to spread knowledge, and aspects of self-discipline to avoid pitfalls it is possible to change the world by waking up the masses for the first time. Thanks for the support and deep thoughts! LETS GO!

Love that series also

WE CAN SHARE THE WOMEN WE CAN SHARE THE WINE

Man is born, lives, dies, builds houses, writes books, not as he wants to, but as it happens. Everything happens. Man does not love, hate, desire-all this happens.

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it's just an obvious statement that the more you observe, the more bad you observe. The more angles you see, the more you know. Yes, it's "self serving" and a sentiment that so many others have also expressed. It's an obvious pitfall that everyone thinks it applies to them. But so what? Are you looking for a hero, or some ideas? I'm no Schop expert, I have my own angle, but it makes me wonder about animosity toward his work. I know that he did have weird idealism. Some ideas can stand up over time, some have had great challenges set before them so they cancel. But I don't think his "profound insights" are the ones you're holding up here. His profound insights are the ones that hold up when other ideas are put in front of them. His explorations on the will get in to what it feels like to operate a consciousness. This is likely what led him to Upanishads because he felt they touched on the same thing. As far as his incel bits... that's how men are, and were. When they are not it's due to being broken like horses. They feel entitled to women as possessions and don't let it sink in much that even if that were the order of things, the incredible amount of abuse, degradation and dehumanization they bring along with that is not justified with any natural or spiritual law. These man are all around, especially the further back one goes. Excluding sexist men leaves us with no one.

Schopenhauer’s take on women should not b regarded as an outcome of prejudice or him being an incel. For firstly he had several romantic relationships with women when he was young and secondly, for him, woman’s psyche contrasts with his own ascetic ideal because they bring out the affirmation of the will in men. and there is definitely some truth in that.

I'm bout to read my first McCarthy book. I hear nothing but great things so I would really appreciate hearing someone who disagrees with that to get a more honest view of what I'm in for. What don't you like about him?

What did you think Laocoon?

@@WriteConscious Hated the first few chapters but the scene at the end of chapter 3 where the commanches attacked their military unit won me over and I was completely hooked from there on. The description, in specific, of the commanches is what really got my attention. The way he made them sound like some out of time, alien, demon hoard, entity barreling down on this woefully unprepared rag tag group was just awesome lol. Edit: I'm referring to blood meridian ofc

Most people aren't awake right now lol! LETS GO! Got up at 3AM this morning because I couldn't drop wanting to talk about Cormac out of my mind!

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I agree. But what would a high brow equivalent to his Story of Philosophy be?

@@jesusgonzalez-acton8045 The actual philosophers writings lol. I personally always prefer going to the source I don't understand the appeal of wanting to rely on someone else telling you what a book said when you can just read the book yourself.

@@Laocoon283 fair. But things like Kojeve’s intro to Hegel have their place, especially when you’re dealing with more esoteric/higher level writings

@@jesusgonzalez-acton8045 Don't let someone else rob you of figuring out what the book means for yourself. You have your entire life to do so what's the rush?