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Originally Posted by dead_battery

yeah go ahead mang.

there are big holes in what im saying.

baudrillard said humanity was "disappearing". he meant this in a positive way. i think maybe its the best we can hope for.

i dont have any other ideas. if there was some perspective we could grasp on this all that could allow us to recapture the good then i'd be all for it, but i dont think there is.

thats why i am so sick and outraged and unhappy. there isnt anything good at all about any of this.

one perspective i tried was the idea that existence might be redeemed by the eventual evolution of life and the technosphere towards something that could destroy both itself and the conditions in this and every other universe for life to start again.

if that is even possible then all it does is make life sad and tragic.

i dont have any other ideas.

i hope you don't take me for a pain in the ass using the socratic method, but when you get a chance please see if you could explain what you see/define as "good". when you say "recapture the good," do you mean it as a category of possible things, or do you mean it as an unattainable ideal? you know, like, if we could get "heaven" again. (there is no heaven but we used to have it as an ideal). or do you mean that good is possible, and if so what would it be--what would be "good"?