#PhilosophicalPessimism
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Screenshot of brief text post by me, on my primary YouTube channel's—@StClare_ on YouTube—section §Posts, approx. one year ago, on the topic of the intellectual/lunatic Nick Land and some of his (unsavory) ideas: ❝ I've found many of Nick Land's ideas counterproductive or even flat-out messed up. Yet, for being called "dark" and pessimistic, he's ultimately an optimist—he affirms the continuation of consciousness/sentience, even if that's post-human. Truly "real" pessimist philosophers find sentience/consciousness to be an absolute curse, wrong, and something that would have better never come into being. #NickLand #CCRU #Land #philosophy #antinatalism #pessimism #philosophicalpessimism #posthumanism #negativeutilitarinism #utilitarianism #posthuman #Singularity #technooptimism #optimism #sentiocentrism ❞ I also posted this screenshot to my [slowly-vanishing]—being transferred here, to Bluesky!—X account (@Empty_Sky_93 on X) on July 11, 2024, with the following caption: ❝{youtube.com/post/UgkxDHTNv…} Nick Land is ultimately an optimist because he affirms the value of consciousness/sentience, even if posthuman... #NickLand #CCRU #Land #philosophy #antinatalism #pessimism #philosophicalpessimism #posthumanism #negativeutilitarinism ❞ X (formerly Twitter) version of this content, as it appeared having posted it on my X account/page—@Empty_Sky_93 on X—on July 11, 2024: Screenshot of brief text post by me, on my primary YouTube channel's—@StClare_ on YouTube—section §Posts, approx. one year ago, on the topic of the intellectual/lunatic Nick Land and some of his (unsavory) ideas: ❝I've found many of Nick Land's ideas counterproductive or even flat-out messed up. Yet, for being called "dark" and pessimistic, he's ultimately an optimist—he affirms the continuation of consciousness/sentience, even if that's post-human. Truly "real" pessimist philosophers find sentience/consciousness to be an absolute curse, wrong, and something that would have better never come into being. #NickLand #CCRU #Land #philosophy #antinatalism #pessimism #philosophicalpessimism #posthumanism #negativeutilitarinism #utilitarianism #posthuman #Singularity #technooptimism #optimism #sentiocentrism ❞ ... Post caption as this screenshot appeared in the X post in question: ❝{youtube.com/post/UgkxDHTNv…} Nick Land is ultimately an optimist because he affirms the value of consciousness/sentience, even if posthuman... #NickLand #CCRU #Land #philosophy #antinatalism #pessimism #philosophicalpessimism #posthumanism #negativeutilitarinism ❞
November 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
maximgrosky.bsky.social
A music break for sanity's sake #music #classical #symphonic #opera #romantic #philosophicalpessimism youtu.be/N0PpTPvbr-4?...
Richard Wagner - Götterdämmerung - Twilight of the gods - AWESOME
YouTube video by mitjanus
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November 8, 2025 at 9:34 AM
corax-the-raven.bsky.social
I Have A Special Plan For This World by Thomas Ligotti... #ThomasLigotti #PhilosophicalPessimism #CosmicPessimism
I Have A Special Plan For This World, by Thomas Ligotti Imagine he said all the flesh that is eaten The teeth tearing into it The tongue tasting it's savour And the hunger for that taste Now take away that flesh he said Take away the teeth and the tongue The taste and the hunger Take away everything as it is That was my plan My own special plan for this world But what was demanded in a way of a plan Needed to go beyond tongue and teeth and hunger and flesh Beyond the bones and the very dust of bones and the wind that would come to blow the dust away And so I began to envision a darkness that was long before the dark of night And a strangely shining light That owed nothing to the light of day That day may seem like other days Once more we feel the tiny legged trepidations Once more we are mangled by a great grinding fear But that day will have no others after No more worlds like this will follow Because I have a plan A very special plan No more worlds like this No more days like that
October 31, 2025 at 10:25 PM
corax-the-raven.bsky.social
The Winter Palace #Poetry #PhilipLarkin #PhilosophicalPessimism
The Winter Palace by Philip Larkin Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder. I spent my second quarter-century Losing what I had learnt at university. And refusing to take in what had happened since. Now I know none of the names in the public prints, And am starting to give offence by forgetting faces And swearing I've never been in certain places. It will be worth it, if in the end I manage To blank out whatever it is that is doing the damage. Then there will be nothing I know. My mind will fold into itself, like fields, like snow.
October 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
corax-the-raven.bsky.social
Pretty much the same reasons why I never wanted kids myself.....

#PhilosophicalPessimism #Antinatalism
Yuval Noah Harari talks about children
YouTube video by Rethinking
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October 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM