/lit/ - Literature

>>12958972
I had a slightly different take. I felt like Ligotti's main focus in this book was on conscious awareness itself - that consciousness evolved as a trait to aid survival, but that the awareness of our inevitable mortality (creepy as that may be) was second to our lack of control within the world at large - that the development of conscious awareness made us realize the deterministic character of nature, which made us aware that we are all mere automatons - marionettes of fate/physics - and that because of this consciousness has to retard itself to the point where we are -mostly- unaware of these things, but that the occasional glimpse of them we get becomes Lovecraftian in its monstrosity, finality, vastness, and inevitability. That intentional retardation on the part of our consciousness is what I took to be the eponymous 'conspiracy against the human race'.

I liked the book overall. It's a decent little primer on philosophical pessimism, and I found the occasional dry wit quite charming.

>>12936628

>insofar
>inasmuch