Luciano Duarte | Literature and philosophy

Philosophy Is Saturated With Vain People

I fill myself with Cioran and I perceive the enormous distinction of one who proposes to face the great questions head-on and with sincerity. Philosophy is saturated with vain people whose works manifest their unique interest in proving their intelligence to the world. When contrasted, on the one hand, the obsession to prove logical failures in other people’s systems and replace them with a “superior” reasoning and, on the other, the desperate manifestation of someone who, with all his spirit, seeks relief for issues that torment him, to notice that there are different levels of philosophers is even an insult. There are serious philosophers and jokers.

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Money Degrades Existence and Dulls

That’s right: money degrades existence and dulls when put in the foreground. The generation of volunteer slaves is among the stupidest of all times. Devoting the bulk of life, the bulk of spirit and energy to material accumulation is simply infamous. But here comes the disturbing question: how to dose, limit the effort, prevent degradation and, while retaining independence, not be completely crushed by the environment?

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Screaming in Front of a Screen

I try to concentrate on a difficult reading and the neighbor, screaming in front of a screen, punching the walls, stomping hard from one side to the other, does not permit. The text is Christian, Christian mysticism. And instead of reading it, absorbing it, I reflect on whether or not I should forgive the animal that screams endlessly. Angry, he will break something, I am sure. In five minutes he pronounced all the bad words I know. It seems the right-back of the team has done any nonsense. Goal of the opponent. Punches, screams, new bad words. And my noise muffler only muffles the damn noise. Should I forgive him? I try to think and an insult invades my mind. The animal risks a cardiac arrest for nothing, and the show loses its grace because it makes my room shake. I completely lose the thread of the narrative and the patience. I throw the book into any corner and let the judgment convince me: the “brother” makes any Christian argument impossible.

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To Put the Motivation in the Hope of a Certain Payment is a Childish Attitude

The orthodox qualify as a mercenary who believes in the hope of eternal reward. As for practical life, it is a gross error to believe in any kind of meritocracy working, when in practical terms the existence itself contains a striking injustice. To put the motivation in the hope of a certain payment is a childish, fragile, if not vanity inducing attitude. To work hard daily, despite the future: this is the distinction of that which rises above a commercial relationship.

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