good and evil
To do good is not to work in concert with reality, nor should we ever strive to live in harmony with nature. This would make us complicit in an entirely evil system. To do good is to break with that complicity – to seek ways of dismantling, resisting and reconfiguring the structure of reality to neutralise, alleviate or unsettle its entropic... See more
Drew M Dalton • Reality is evil
If being complicit in the destructive flow of the Universe is evil, then goodness might be redefined as that which resists the nature and structure of reality, however futilely. Goodness could consist in any act that seeks, however briefly, to bend the entropic thrust of existence back upon itself – holding it at bay, even if only momentarily.
Drew M Dalton • Reality is evil
What, then, are we to do? The only ‘ought’ we can tentatively derive from the vision of reality revealed by the thermodynamic revolution is this: it is our duty to strike back at the Universe. For it is precisely in the possibility of retaliating against the moral horror of existence that new ethical imperatives and aesthetic insights might be forg... See more
Drew M Dalton • Reality is evil
This makes me think of Camus and the attitude of absurdism. He believed that we should say fuck you to the universe and play at living for as long as possible; that we should revolt against nature and it’s decreative mission. I also think of the Dylan Thomas poem, “Do not go gentle into that good night.” He says “Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”