"I think I only “needed” about thirty-five years of experience on Earth before it was time for me to leave the party regardless of the guests, the band, or the refreshments served. By then I’d already made my version of the full rounds of the premises and was already wandering in circles, synthetic grin faltering and eyes darting around looking for the fire exits. "
Sarah Perry (who wrote the great defense of anti-natalism Every Cradle is a Grave) referred to the phenomenon you describe here as "Living in the Epilogue". What do we do for a person whose life is over for them well before it is actually over. Do these people deserve palliative care in the same way definitively "dying to never get better" people deserve? And she wondered about how we know the difference between people who can find their way to a better relationship with life and people who can't and when do we try to "help" and when do we treat people as adults who have correctly ascertained their relationship to life. Ironically, Sarah found her way out of her hatred of living but her musings about it are still great. https://suspendedreason.com/2016/12/30/the-political-is-always-personal-a-conversation-with-sarah-perry/
Very in-depth post. LRC is not great, as you said, but they are also raw on the boards and are unfiltered and pure, like here. Far better than FastWomen and some other sites. LRC, as flawed as it is, is the closest to a not-filtered internet as you can get.
Anyone who invents a two step "off" switch for people to self-employ that has a first dose that generates an "I don't give a fuck" unconcern like the first shot that goes into your IV before a major surgery and then a second dose that turns off the lights in a painless and unfussy manner akin to the actual anesthesia before a major surgery should get a Noble Prize and be remembered among the greatest humanitarians who ever lived.
"I think I only “needed” about thirty-five years of experience on Earth before it was time for me to leave the party regardless of the guests, the band, or the refreshments served. By then I’d already made my version of the full rounds of the premises and was already wandering in circles, synthetic grin faltering and eyes darting around looking for the fire exits. "
Sarah Perry (who wrote the great defense of anti-natalism Every Cradle is a Grave) referred to the phenomenon you describe here as "Living in the Epilogue". What do we do for a person whose life is over for them well before it is actually over. Do these people deserve palliative care in the same way definitively "dying to never get better" people deserve? And she wondered about how we know the difference between people who can find their way to a better relationship with life and people who can't and when do we try to "help" and when do we treat people as adults who have correctly ascertained their relationship to life. Ironically, Sarah found her way out of her hatred of living but her musings about it are still great. https://suspendedreason.com/2016/12/30/the-political-is-always-personal-a-conversation-with-sarah-perry/
Very in-depth post. LRC is not great, as you said, but they are also raw on the boards and are unfiltered and pure, like here. Far better than FastWomen and some other sites. LRC, as flawed as it is, is the closest to a not-filtered internet as you can get.
Anyone who invents a two step "off" switch for people to self-employ that has a first dose that generates an "I don't give a fuck" unconcern like the first shot that goes into your IV before a major surgery and then a second dose that turns off the lights in a painless and unfussy manner akin to the actual anesthesia before a major surgery should get a Noble Prize and be remembered among the greatest humanitarians who ever lived.