It’s my experience that if you want to be the life of the party, it’s best to downplay the part about how we are all actually living in hell. OTH, who really wants to be the life of this party?
When I first ran the thought experiment that “the world is evil”, I assumed it would lead to the worst type of pessimism and to nihilism (as that word is commonly used). But in fact, it did the opposite—all of history, religion, politics and economics suddenly made perfect sense...as grand deception. Once you start taking that perspective seriously, you can cut through the fake optimism and hopium that is driven into us and set about figuring out how to really deal with the world we have rather than with the promised one that's always kept just beyond reach. Obviously, the gnostics were on to something, which is why they've been rubbed out and memory holed by the orthodox and the imperialists throughout recorded history.
It’s my experience that if you want to be the life of the party, it’s best to downplay the part about how we are all actually living in hell. OTH, who really wants to be the life of this party?
When I first ran the thought experiment that “the world is evil”, I assumed it would lead to the worst type of pessimism and to nihilism (as that word is commonly used). But in fact, it did the opposite—all of history, religion, politics and economics suddenly made perfect sense...as grand deception. Once you start taking that perspective seriously, you can cut through the fake optimism and hopium that is driven into us and set about figuring out how to really deal with the world we have rather than with the promised one that's always kept just beyond reach. Obviously, the gnostics were on to something, which is why they've been rubbed out and memory holed by the orthodox and the imperialists throughout recorded history.