What! Get yourself a copy of Thomas Ligotti's 'The Conspiracy Against the Human Race' today. Order it now! Also, Schopenhauer's essays 'On the Suffering of the World' and 'On the Vanity of Existence'... can be found online... mandatory reading.
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Also, Peter Wessel Zapffe's "The Last Messiah"... also available online
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The Last Messiah is online. There are a few tidbits in Ligotti's book. But I think that's about it for English translations. Mainlander is even more obscure. This has some morsels: philosophy-of-redemption.blogspot.com and this is another resource: old.reddit.com/r/Mainlander/
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Thank you!!! I’ll make sure to check them out :)
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Mainlander will be pretty heavy for a beginner antinatalist. You really should get that Ligotti book. It's such a great introduction and Ligotti's style is so witty and creative. In the last chapter, he goes into the art of writing horror fiction.
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Don't dismiss Schopenhauer. He's the Daddy of modern antinatalism. He was AN thru & thru. Was reading Book Four of his World as Will and Idea & there are some incredible passages in there regarding AN & pessimism. Those 2 essays cited above are a must read.
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Nietzsche is questionable. Don't get me wrong. I love Nietzsche. But I don't think he was a dyed-in-the-wool AN. He was trying to save humanity from nihilism, which he saw was coming. He was definitely anti-Christian. But he wanted humanity to carry on.
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I didn't know that about Tesla. Makes me like him more. lol. What about Leopardi? I haven't really read him but in bits and pieces. But he seems to be pretty hardcore AN. And de Giraud? And, of course, there's David Benatar. I read his "Better Never" book...
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Same here. I was antinatalist before there ever was a word for it. lol. Benatar is a true antinatalist. But his writing is laborious. It's difficult, for me, anyway, to plow through. But he's the real deal. But I never got into his asymmetry argument.