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Ep. 377: Emil Cioran's Pessimism (Part Two)

Category: Religion & Spirituality
Duration: 00:45:50
Publish Date: 2025-10-13 04:03:35
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Continuing on "Directions for Decomposition" from A Short History of Decay (1949). What is it that humans are inevitably trying to avoid that seems so bad to us? It's our existential separation from others, our essential, incommunicable solitude. Plus, ennui, sloth, and being a "traitor to existence."

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