{∅, {∅}, {∅, {∅}}} : Rage Against the Meat Grinder

Holden,

You said that you “see no glory in dragging and feeding ones body.No glory whatsoever.Not now,not ever.”
The Will to life is alive and kicking.I have been dragging and feeding and medicating my body. I wish I could die peacefully in my sleep but I think that is not going to happen.

Take care.

Senor Raul,

Sometimes the price you pay for being emotionally sensitive and intelligent...

Is suicide.

Take care.

“there is something disturbing going on in the basement of our cozy middle-class world” - Gordon Marino.

Senor Raul,
Have you seen any UFOs in the Paraguayan skies?Thanks.
If you don't mind my asking -when your parents were around , especially your mother, did they play the matchmaker for you?In India, that's very common.

Senor Raul,

Any one briefly acquainted with the history of  German thought would know that Schopenhauer was par excellance. He lived alone in Frankfurt ,taking walks,,writing, taking his meals in the English cafe,attending operas in the evening.During his age I am not sure if any other philosopher of note lived in his city. In his thought he was very far away from his contemperory Hegelians who were obsessed with History and did their best to turn History itself into Philosophy.Schopenhauer would have nothing to do with it.

It is especially germane to remember that Schopenhauer knew and appreciated scientific discoveries and technologies advancements taking place all around him much more than his philosophical optimistic  antagonists. He would have nothing to do with History as philosophy and would never look forward to Singularity.He stood alone against the mob of Hegelians and later,the Marxists and the socialists of every stripe.

The Marxists in their journals, when they do write about him, describe him as the very definition of a bourgeois reactionary. While like the Marxists, I and Schopenhauer,read history, too, we,unlike them, see only chaos and human misery in it and not any kind of moral progress. We see no telos.
I can imagine Schopenhauer,on a Sunday afternoon, in his house ,alone,writing in his journal against the Hegelians, against the Marxists.

Unlike Marx ,who latter,in his life looked rather fat and with paunch around his belly, Schopenhauer with his daily walks, would remain slim till his seventies. I can not see his gorging on anything except perhaps on salad.

The Marxists and the socialists with their highfalutin jargon and their endless economic analysis will never reach the truth. Not in Schopenhauers time, not now, not ever.
It is sad and a true disgrace that the very city where Schopenhauer once wrote and contemplated ,in the 1920s gave birth to the aborted fetus called the Frankfurt School.

They,like the most fashionable philosophers, would have Marx as their reigning deity. How many societies the world over are dedicated to propagate his thought-hundreds ,if not thousands and that of Schopenhauer?

These folks, the member of the Frankfurt School,would go on to write about why the working class Germans wanted everything under the Sun but their beloved communism. Why they would pay to attend Hitlers mass rallies. I have come to realise that Hitler,unbeknownst to himself, had come to personify Will to Live of the German nation.

Billie Holiday version of "Gloomy Sunday"