Problem of predation

[Anonymous No.13804646]

Being is aesthetic-participatory not just clockwork following zero-sum algorithms. your evolutionary "game" is a vortex of gristle

Micro-organisms struggle although perhaps they don't suffer. But they are digested alive anyways, doesn't it bother you that the universe is an infinite arena of wills jostling for energy? Doesn't it scare you? We're in a monstrous void eating itself. What the fuck? Doesn't it scare you? What the fuck is wrong with me, with you, what are we doing?

[Anonymous No.13804770]

>>13804646
>“In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence. A kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life. You feel it already in the vegetable kingdom: from the great catalpa to the humblest herb, how many plants die and how many are killed; but, from the moment you enter the animal kingdom, this law is suddenly in the most dreadful evidence. A Power, a violence, at once hidden and palpable. . . has in each species appointed a certain number of animals to devour the others. . . And who [in this general carnage] exterminates him who will exterminate all others? Himself. It is man who is charged with the slaughter of man. . . The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but a vast altar upon which all that is living must be sacrificed without end, without measure, without pause, until the consummation of things, until evil is extinct, until the death of death.”

[Anonymous No.13804779]

>>13804646
There's nothing you can do about it. Except not have kids and live ascetically like a good Schopenhauerian.

[Anonymous No.13804788]

>>13804779
Any other writings that talk about this that you know of? I'm gonna track that Maistre quote down

[Anonymous No.13804795]

>>13804788
It's from St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence

[Anonymous No.13804802]

>>13804795
Thank you.

[Anonymous No.13805212]

>>13804646
>doesn't it bother you that the universe is an infinite arena of wills jostling for energy? Doesn't it scare you? We're in a monstrous void eating itself. What the fuck? Doesn't it scare you?
It makes me STIFF.

[Anonymous No.13805265]

>>13805212
No it doesn't you faggot larper

[Anonymous No.13805345]

>>13805265
Yes it does you obsessive drinker of a milk sostitute beverage invented in Asia.

[Anonymous No.13805977]

>>13804646
>the universe is

Maybe it isn't.