Monthly Archives: November 2014

Reportback on a trip to the South East

By aragorn | Published: November 30, 2014

Ideally I would be updating this thing at least once a month. At least that often I have some poignant thing that I’m working through that I’d love to share in this context as at least a bookmark for further thinking but I find I’m rarely getting around to it. Why? Because between websites I […]

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Escape?

By Squee | Published: November 27, 2014

God is dead… he wrote. The fundamental conundrum of contemporary man’s condition: nihilism. Nihilism becomes the inescapable spirit of the times. The Modern Man could merely respond to it, manage it, and perhaps with an active approach, create for himself a way of being in the world that could bid nihilism good riddance. The foundations […]

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Absurdist Anarchy

By Squee | Published: November 16, 2014

The below is just the combination of 3 earlier pieces that all build on top of each other, but will eventually be the basis for a longer piece that works it all out more coherently and stylishly.   Absurdism: In philosophy, “the Absurd” refers to the conflict between (a) the human tendency to seek inherent […]

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An Individual’s Interests

By Squee | Published: November 16, 2014

Existence for a self-conscious individual may not offer any sort of rational basis for meaning and values, but it at least offers a biochemistry to help get the process going. Good and bad may not transcend the somewhat haphazard associations brains form which tie into emotional responses, but there are at least those immediate and […]

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Camus’ the Rebel: Quotes (some Notes)

By Squee | Published: November 9, 2014

The Rebel – Notes Metaphysical, Historical, and Aesthetic I The Rebel – 13 II Metaphysical Rebellion – 23 THE SONS OF CAIN – 26 ABSOLUTE NEGATION – 36 THE REJECTION OF SALVATION ABSOLUTE AFFIRMATION *THE POETS’ REBELLION NIHILISM AND HISTORY III Historical Rebellion THE REGICIDES THE DEICIDES INDIVIDUAL TERRORISM ATIONAL TERROR STATE TERRORISM AND RATIONAL […]

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