It strikes me that Han is obsessed with rituals; they are an undercurrent throughout his work. I wonder if he interprets some of the "acceleration society's" problems as stemming from a lack of rituals? The picture is from "Disappearance of Rituals" and he seems to implicitly address your thoughts.

Sharing this here since @juliango.bsky.social isn't terribly active on here (yet).

I wonder what Adorno — the late-60s version of him — would think about all this today?

I feel confident that the Frankfort school would be fairly divided as to answering the question "what next?"

Oh. That's not horrifying in the least.

Schopenhauer has some words for those obsessed with accruing wealth — shame they'll never listen.

The Greek tragedian Euripides had some thoughts on #antinatalism; the Western origins of which can be traced as far as back as the 6th Century BCE.

From Nietzsche's "The Birth of Tragedy."

Now is the time for healthy cynicism and skepticism.

Despite Buddhism being, arguably, one of the more pessimistic ideologies. Even Schopenhauer thought so.

We can probably throw degrowth in there, too. #philsky

Banger. 👇

An arch-pessimist, Emil #Cioran suggested that instead of dwelling on the bad, we run from it. Otherwise we'll go down a road with a permanent solution. #philosophy

How we spend our leisure time says a lot about who we are and what we want out of our short lives. #Seneca knew that. Spending our time mindlessly doing fuck all should be low on the pole. #philosophy

I think most of us on here know who this is about. #Schopenhauer understood. To quote an ad I've seen a lot this year: "He gets us." #philosophy

"A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts." - Arthur #Schopenhauer We should all be a little more pessimistic going forward, I think. #philosophy