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despair

May 03, 20263 min read

  • Sylvia Plath - Lifes figs rot at your feet
  • Sigmund Freud - Death Drive
  • Lovecraftian Cosmicism
  • Roko’s Basilisk
  • Great Silence/Fermi Paradox implications
  • The ‘Doomer’
  • Moral Nihilism
  • Richard Dawkins - Selfish Gene controls us
  • Brain in a Vat
  • David Benatar - Better to Have Never Been
  • Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation
  • Albert Camus - We Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy
  • Malthusianism
  • Fredrich Nietzsche - Dionysian Pessimism
  • Ted Kaczynski - The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race
  • Stanford Prison Experiment
  • Milgram experiment
  • Ernest Becker - Denial of Death
  • Sartre - Nausea
  • Solipsism
  • Laurence Labadie - Anarcho-Pessimism
  • Thomas Ligotti - Conspiracy Against the Human Race
  • Jean-Jacques Rosseau - Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains
  • Hassan-i Sabbāh - Nothing is true; everything is permitted
  • Duhkha
  • Giacomo Leopardi - The Suicidal Pursuit of Pure Reason
  • Depressive Realism
  • Miguel de Unamuno - Tragic Sense of Life
  • Despair Code
  • Michel Houellebecq - Against the World, Against Life
  • Emil Cioran - The Failure
  • Nihilist Communism
  • Eugene Thacker - Cosmic Pessimism
  • Mark Fisher - Slow Cancellation of the Future
  • John Gray - The Silence of Animals
  • Keiji Nishitani - Religion and Nothingness
  • Hannah Arendt - Banality of Evil
  • Sarah Perry - Every Cradle a Grave
  • Ray Brassier - Nihil Unbound
  • Solar Plexus Clown Glider
  • Peter Wessel Zapffe - The Last Messiah
  • Julio Cabrera - Negative Ethics
  • Georges Bataille - The Accursed Share
  • Rejectionism
  • Nick Land - “Nothing human survives the near-future”
  • Paul Virilio - Pure War
  • Dougal Dixon - Man After Man
  • Theodor Adorno - A Good Life is no longer possible
  • Mereological Nihilism
  • Carlo Michelstaedter - Persuasion and Rhetoric
  • Pentti Linkola - Lifeboat Ethics
  • Sister Y - Forced Life
  • Panopticon Thought Control
  • Jack Black - You Can’t Win
  • Rene Girard - Scapegoat theory and Mimetic Violence
  • Jean Baudrillard - Hyperreality
  • John Zerzan - Agriculture the Demon Engine of Civilization
  • J.G. Ballard - Spinal Geotrauma
  • Charles Fort - Earth is a farm and we are property
  • Global failure to respond to catastrophic risks
  • Adam Parfey (ed.) - Apocalypse Culture
  • ‘Desert’ by Anonymous
  • Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh - Omnicide
  • Thomas Moynihan - X-Risk
  • Orson Welles’ Image Nihilism
  • Georgescu-Roegen - Entropy Law and Economics
  • Radoslav Tsanoff - Nature of Evil
  • Colin Feltham - Anthropathology
  • William Burroughs - Language is Alien Control Virus
  • Entropy Pessimism
  • David Wallace-Wells - The Uninhabitable Earth
  • Franz Kafka - Aphorisms
  • Francois Lyotard - Libidinal Economy
  • Buddhist Nihilism
  • Frank B. Wilderson III - Afropessimism
  • Al-Ma’arri - Life is Prison
  • Daoist Nihilism
  • John Keel - Slaves of the Eighth Tower
  • Ontological Nihilism
  • Dark Forest Theory
  • Eco-extremism
  • Eduard Von Haartman - Philosophy of the Unconcious
  • VHEMT
  • Mitchell Heismen - Suicide Note
  • Cesare Pavese - This Business of Living
  • Edgar Saltus - Disenchantment
  • Philipp Mainlander - Philosophy of Redemption
  • Anna Kavan - Ice
  • Oka Asajiro - Human Overspecialization inevitably Omnicidal
  • Doom Ecology
  • Horror of geologic time
  • Minoru Kyo - Already Extinct
  • Medea Hypothesis
  • Gunther Anders - Humans are Obsolete
  • Julius Bahnsen - Transcendental Pessimist Realism
  • Hamid Parsani - War Reproduces itself through humans
  • Gnostic Pessimism
  • Oscar Kiss Maerth - The End was the Beginning
  • The world is evil and ruled by Satan, it is not supposed to be fair or just
  • Ray Lankester - Human Degeneration into ‘Intellectual Barnacles’
  • The Pessimism of Jesus
  • Barbara O’Brien - Operators and Things
  • God is Evil
  • Fortean Nihilism
  • Evil God Challenge
  • We are Destroying the Universe by Observing it

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