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Ep. 377: Emil Cioran's Pessimism (Part T...

Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey
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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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