The loss of value at the behest of value’s supposed (really real or not) improvements.
Philosophy is thus-far powerless against this death, because philosophy idealizes value-loss as a kind of truth signal. The winnowing-away of surfeit pathos or exigencies. Makes the ego feel good doesn’t it? To put down those lessers, the ‘less refined’ ones who just “don’t get it”?
Well keep refining yourself into non-existence, that is perhaps what you are best at. If not then you would be… not doing that.
I think if we accept that our motivations are due to bias instilled into our structure,
then it follows that even our seeking of understanding / truth, affirms this structure.
I don’t think there’s something objectively correct about our preferences,
other that they are indeed our own & what we have to work with.
Value is a product of those with bias, and is only created by the non-neutral / non-indifferent.
Inanimate matter, to our understanding, is indifferent to the world & has no preferences / assigns no personal value upon anything.
That we keep our momentum, as living beings, preserves value / bias within us,
and results in biased events being unfurled upon existence.
It is very true, imo, that in the death of life, comes neutrality / indifference.
Without sentient beings, to my understanding, there is no value being assigned.
(questions of artificial life, notwithstanding)
But I’m of the belief, that existence repeats -
Thus, value will repeatedly be created.
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The thing about facing death and having overcome it, is that everything pales into comparison and is therefore dull and non-illuminating to a revived mind and an equally-so body… rendering small-talk and minor-annoyances unpalatable and downright insulting.
But, then again… I wasn’t that distant from that personae, as a child. Go me!
Well but the ego serves its purpose - a hyper specialized task may, would, bear some fruits that aren’t immediately evident or usable but serve some remote destiny.
Phasing oneself out of commonplace existence doing hard intellectual labor cant be completely void.
Yes, what is the ego’s purpose? That is one fuckall of a question. Let me ponder that while I consume more Viking meads.
Fucking right. SHE GOT THE EYES OF THE PANTHER. STEEL PANTHER FOR TEH WINZZZ FSKKSKSKSKCKCKCKCKCKKKKKK
Intellectual labor = WUT = Who knows it but then = void no does not = but then =/= HEAVY MMETAL =/=/= YEZZZZZ
THE EGO IS GOD or ummmm WHAT um ahh well so
O yeah buddy. Rezspekctz. SHE GOT DEM EYES oh shit fr reals razor teetht… when did we ever need the Gods, but now? But they were and still are, always right here.