If you imagine, in so far as it is approximately possible, the sum total of distress, pain and suffering of every kind which the sun shines upon in its course, you will have to admit it would have been much better if the sun had been able to call up the phenomenon of life as little on the earth as on the moon; and if, here as there, the surface were still in a crystalline condition. [Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms, page 479]
Schopenhauer lived in a time when it wasn’t yet known that, in the distant future, our sun will become a Red Giant: eliminating not only what we call unnecessary suffering, but also the necessary suffering that every creature that wants to live must endure.
As far as the commenters on this site are concerned, only Benjamin, Gaedhal, and I have rationally ventured into this topic. I don’t count Autisticus Spasticus because he suggests getting rid of a hundred per cent of humanity at once.
In contrast, I hope that only the Aryan race, in its Nordic version, will persist in the future and that some super-beautiful Nordids (I recently learned that actor Björn Andrésen from Death in Venice passed away this year) will become followers of the religion of the four words, and inhabit the paradise of girls on rocks painted by the American Maxfield Parrish. Spasticus’ solution isn’t rational because it would allow, say, killer whales to continue tormenting whale calves once Homo sapiens became extinct. Instead, the priest of the sacred words suggests exterminating the killer whale gangs that are doing this.
With its trillions of galaxies, the universe is the mystery of mysteries. What seems to reign everywhere in the Milky Way is precisely this “crystalline condition”, to rephrase Schopenhauer, of the planets of all stars, except our own. Trying to conquer the universe for our religion seems impossible.
But modestly speaking, it is theoretically possible to try to implement the sacred words—Eliminad todo sufrimiento innecesario—at least on this planet. And for that, we need Hitlerites like Ben and me (remember that the first thing the Nazis did when they came to power was to ban vivisection).
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I saw an article by Mauricio where he talked about “Meds,” and I want to know what he actually means by that. Does he mean only the north, or also the southern Mediterranean like Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco? Because I’m from the northern Mediterranean myself more precisely, I was born in northern France.
I hate being a med, and I wish I were Aryan. The mixing mistake my ancestors made is unforgivable. Still, my IVF children are Aryan, with red hair and blue eyes. If my wife weren’t Aryan, my genes would never have allowed me to secure wealth for my Aryan children.
So I’m wondering: what did Mauricio mean when he said meds need to “correct” their mixing mistake? How are they supposed to do that? By mixing with Aryans generation after generation, or by staying with other meds?