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On the space between waking and dreaming in Kafka’s diaries | Aeon Essays
share.googleAny well-developed conception of the good must recognize not just one human interest, but a whole variety. And that means a negotiation between conflicting interests in the name of civil peace. A ‘modus vivendi’ is the liberalism now in order. -John Gray, quoted in Noema Magazine Issue No 5

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
Decay, it seems, is the ultimate essence of existence, which means that our being must be understood as a mode of unbecoming.
Drew M Dalton • Reality is evil
A metaphysics that responds to the full scope of the thermodynamic revolution needs to acknowledge the dissipative and destructive function lying behind the ‘generative’ force seemingly at work within reality. To do so requires moving from the classical optimistic metaphysics of becoming to a much more pessimistic metaphysics of absolute finitude... See more
Drew M Dalton • Reality is evil
The laws of thermodynamics reveal, in other words, that what we might view as the generative power of the Universe is instead bringing about the annihilation of everything: the flourishing of life is always contributing to the eventual collapse of the cosmos.
Drew M Dalton • Reality is evil
The laws of thermodynamics encompass the whole of reality, from beginning to end, top to bottom, in origin, order and operation. We exist by virtue of heat exchange alone, and work entirely in service to the entropic decay of reality prescribed by that exchange.
Drew M Dalton • Reality is evil
Rather than something to align with, the Universe appears to be fundamentally hostile to our wellbeing.