/lit/ - Literature

Does anyone else find the pre-Socratics rather unimportant? Heraclitus and the logos aside, a lot of the pre-socratics seem preoccupied by alchemy and finding the primary element, which has all been horribly outdated. Obviously they’re important in the development of Western thought, and obviously there are exceptions, but I was just kind if let down by a lot of it, which seemed to closer resemble mythology as opposed to philosophy.

My main objection to antinatalism in its prevalent form is that it is a form of liberalism, which makes it self-defeating.

By that I mean that antinatalists are generally people who are childless, want to remain childless for antinatalist reasons and want to convince others to do the same. They claim to consider reproduction to be the worst thing you can do, but they aren't consistent in it, they don't really mean this. They are liberals. This is demonstrated by the fact that they consider reproduction not worse than intervening with someone else's right to reproduce. If they were true antinatalists, they would intervene. They would consider violence a justified method of combating existence.

A real antinatalist would not only intervene in other people's reproductive behaviour, he would oppose, by all means necessary, the continuation of life in general.

A real antinatalist would be someone who considers every act that diminishes life to be the morally right thing to do, and every act that aids the continuation of life to be morally wrong.

A real antinatalist would consider planting a tree to be infinitely worse than stabbing a pregnant woman in the belly.

A real antinatalist be an extinction event accelerationist.

A real antinatalist would rather be called an omnicidist, meaning a person who actively strives to destroy all life, to end the existence and continuation of every single lifeform.

Goya > attack on titan

>>5902333
>art has a history
Wow, such a cancerous ideology

>>5902332
Well yeah, I often prefer beautiful art too, but beauty isn't a requirement of art. The "muh pretty pictures" definition of art beloved in YouTube comment sections is wayyy off. Goya's Saturn isn't traditionally beautiful (dodgy proportion, messy strokes, clearly drawn heavily from imagination) but nevertheless it's a great work of art.