Prefaces of books I probably will never write. Installment B: Being Bo(h)rn Best phrase: "Two brotherās wonder at the straight lines thought by somebody with a back so crooked." open.substack.com/pub/thereisn...
Preface B
Prefaces of books I probably will not write. Installment A: an autistic history of philosophy. Best phrase: āThey clearly never met me with my motherā. open.substack.com/pub/thereisn...
Preface A
The word "reward" has been the least rewarding word in our present culture. Hooked on rewards, we become oblivious to our environment. Reward isn't just reductive, it reduces experience to nought. Luckily @sandervdc.bsky.socialthereisnoreward.substack.com/p/the-reward...
An opening dialogue to our Substack
Truth is the weapon of authoritarianism. The currency of democracy is trust.
Human beings are just a naturally occurring vortex that maximally dissipates energy of the Sun into heat. We're just overdoing it these last centuries & should chill for a while.
Maybe the Big Freeze is coming, but let us anyway enjoy our couple of millions of years under this Sun.
Continental philosophers dismiss French philosophy because it is too scientific, whilst analytic philosophers dismiss French philosophy because is it too scientific.
We humans are so proud we'd rather extinguish ourselves than give any chance to the climate to extinguish us.
We have a word for all this: unsustainable. The actions of the West are those of someone who is hooked. In our case, we're addicted to our privilege.