Having Foresight
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Having Foresight is a recurring concept in the Collected Agenda archive, appearing 1 times across 1 issues between October 28, 2024 and October 28, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Once, I discovered Having Foresight, and to cope with continuing to smoke cigarettes, I wrote lots and lots of thoughts in my early college notebooks on Optimistic Nihilism”. It most often appears alongside 12 Questions, 27 Club, Adeline Swartzendruber.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 1
- Issue count: 1
- First seen: October 28, 2024
- Last seen: October 28, 2024
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Once, I discovered Having Foresight, and to cope with continuing to smoke cigarettes, I wrote lots and lots of thoughts in my early college notebooks on Optimistic Nihilism. In retrospect, it’s a cheap idea. It’s nihilism - already cheap enough on its own - without its only redeemable facet (dread). I don’t deem self-destruction bad because most people wrongly equate a long life with a good one, but rather because it is spiritually ugly. Hedonism is not necessarily self-destructive, but empty pleasure is. A fragile sensibility of course fears suffering more than death. And so nihilism, hedonism, glee within both - I’m drawn to all of this intrinsically despite its juvenile vapidness.