@St_Rev Of course, if humans are such good optimisers that they completely overpower all the orthogonal processes around them, then
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@St_Rev I suppose you didn't. In that case, I can't think of what we disagree on, although it certainly seems like we're disagreeing. -
@A_P_Mason Maybe! -
@St_Rev Possibly Daoism is just philosophical pessimism with a smile. -
@A_P_Mason More like western philosophical pessimism is a misunderstanding of Daoism (and Buddhism). -
@St_Rev To be fair, we're not trying to be Daoist. -
@A_P_Mason No, but there are confusions/misreadings thereof underlying Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, some of the critical theorists etc. -
@A_P_Mason Most religious systems promise one sort of immortality or another, but only Daoism suggests immortality via not dying. -
@A_P_Mason That confounds a lot of basic assumptions common in the European tradition, but it's not pessimistic. - 7 more replies
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