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Favorite Philosopher: Benedict de Spinoza + [Peter Wessel Zapffe, Nassim Nicholas Taleb & Ray Brassier]

Location: desert of the real ...

Biography: i'm a [absurdist [fallibilist [materialist]]]* who happens to be an African-American fortysomething male currently living in the U.S. desert southwest. philosophizing, for me, begins with being astonished at the prospect that there isn't any sufficient reason for "sufficient reason" (e.g. no god/s, no non-contingent / transcendent Xs, no totality, no teleology, evil sans theodicy, reality sans agency, etc).... i'm a lover of Jazz, hiking, carousing, getting lost, learning for its own sake, big dogs, old trees, empty beaches, fast wimmen & sloe days. i'm also an economic democrat striving to resist/subvert 'normative injustices' wherever & whenever possible.


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> [materialism [fallibilism [absurdism]]]*

materialism (entropy --> extinction) means-in-themselves
- fallibilism (risk, uncertainty) means-to-ends
-- absurdism (music-dance-poetry ... 'resistance') ends-in-themselves

nota bene:

> material supposition: entropy + extinction + awareness of 'entropy & extinction' --> atheism (+ abolition)


1. entropy (negative asymmetries e.g. disorder > order, catastrophe > progress, decay-death > birth-growth)
2. extinction (personal, species, terrestrial-solar ... cosmic extinctions -- necessary contingency -- are 'a priori' (subject-constitutive trauma ... of object in-excess-of / sans subject ... of the real))
3. madness (awareness of entropy & extinction (i.e. gratuitous suffering))
4a. atheism (let X = set of truth-claims of 'theism'; X is inconsistent with entropy-extinction-madness, entropy-extinction-madness is demonstrably the case, therefore ~X. QED)
4b. abolition (e.g. negative utilitarianism --> (A) non-violence (positive-sum social arrangements (e.g. economic democracy)) + (B) anti-natalism (strategic sterilization (of primates & cetaceans) + pro-abortion + anti-fertility))

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