@oecolamp I see, you're more optimist than I. In my understanding each generation of men is more likely to give things to women for less and less in exchange.
Schopenhauer's conception of life is beyond absurd. He splits it into "satisfying need-pleasure" and "need not satisfied-suffering", ignoring all the neutral to positive states, and ignoring the fact that planning to satisfy a need or being in the process is actively pleasurable
@oecolamp Do men want to have sex with them for childbearing purposes? Sex and reproduction have been unlinked for several decades now and the favor has only accelerated
@GraduatedBen I don’t think duty is the correct lens: they understood (or falsely believed) they were dead so they chose to go out doing what their lives were about. Great fulfillment in self affirmation, and great nobility in it
@escapefrommelos Spaniards have the strongest longing for the Divine of any European. Explains both their ultrareligious nationalists (who express it) and their completely schizo murderous leftism (who seethe against it)
@pegobry_en The libs fixed it by doing Permanent Revolution, so you keep voting blue while demanding bluer.
RW instead seems to be doing "red is shit, we need to vote blue so that it goes redder"
@robertlasagna1 wouldn't "lying less to yourself about it" be "torturing yourself" equally?
how are the gomorrites dismissed as self-tortured but the judgement on society not recognized as equally self-torture?