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“Drear ritual turned its wheel. The ferment of the heart, within these walls, was mocked by every length of sleeping shadow. The passions, no greater than candle flames, flickered in Time's yawn, for Gormenghast, huge and adumbrate, out-crumbles all.”—Peake

“The only free mind is the one that, pure of all intimacy with being or objects, plies its own vacuity.”—Cioran

What if an epidemic of loneliness and an era of peace are one and the same?

"Nietzsche was probably the first to understand what conventional moralism is: the criticism of mountains by non-climbers"—Sloterdijk

Philosophy is not general, it is only _unrestricted_.

Who selects the selectors?https://twitter.com/afoolswisdom/status/947867402431164416 …

We must stand together. If only that Gnon might have a conclusive experiment with ourselves as hypothesis.https://twitter.com/afoolswisdom/status/947867402431164416 …

Nothing has changed. Evolution proceeds at ever higher levels of selection apace.https://twitter.com/afoolswisdom/status/947867402431164416 …

It used to be that conservative cultures select for the successful neophilic experiments of individuals. What now selects for the progressivism of the entire world?

To summarise Sloterdijk in “You must change your life”: Existentialism is what all sufficiently advanced algorithms feel like from the inside.

“The spread of applications led to a general theory, and what had been a tool for handling structures became more and more a means of defining them“—McLarty, Elementary Categories, Elementary Toposes

“He neither wanted to save himself nor to let anyone else save him. His entire thought is a complaint about the imposition of requiring salvation.”

Cioran accepts his aggressive-depressive disposition as the primal atmospheric fact of his existence. —Sloterdijk

And God said, “That’s not what I meant”, but there it was.

So why do we die? Because evolution is _agile_.

Why do humans die? The same reason why mathematicians prefer short proofs. Selection pressure is too weak past reproduction and childcare, and past where proof checking starts to become unreliable.