Please welcome to Michigan City, writing in from Boston by way of New Jersey, Nic Saluzzi @nullanno. He's got three new poems out today to hopefully help close out the winter and bring in the warmth https://t.co/6MwZK7xoqS
Again, we have Schopenhauer viewing the same ultimate reality of emptiness from the opposite pole as the Buddhists, informed by this industrial/Protestant commodification/judgement of time … of course boredom is seen pessimistically when life is seen as task and not simply Life
Schopenhauer’s prison of desire birthed from this pessimistic reflection on the nothing is an interesting contrast to the Buddhist conception where śūnyatā is not something to be lamented, but rather a realization, cessation from the wheel of suffering
Schopenhauer’s prison of desire birthed from this pessimistic reflection on the nothing is an interesting contrast to the Buddhist conception where śūnyatā is not something to be lamented, but rather a realization, cessation from the wheel of suffering
As usual, I’m late to everything, so I just finished reading Stupid Baby by New Juche (posted my thoughts about it on Substack btw) and I’m now finally reading Fuccboi by Sean Thor Conroe. Been liking the rhythm of Sean’s prose so far—this bit in particular struck me