Reflecting on despair vaccinates against despair, reflecting on anguish slows down anguish, disillusionment only is harmful when untimely… and the mind seems to have the arsenal it needs to contain its own impulses. If moved by inertia, vulnerable; if put to work, prepared and resistant. The support it lacks is nothing but the fruit of its own creation. Thus, the idea of self-sufficiency really seems irresistible.
Tag: 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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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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