AnAppariti0n

AnAppariti0n t1_jckklc9 wrote

Reply to comment by Ok-Reporter8066 in Schopenhauer and Hegel’s feud was metaphysical: a pessimist who recognised the unchangeable essence of the world and an optimist who saw human history as perpetual growth could never get along. by IAI_Admin

Reading Schopenhauer isn’t negative or a downer to me, it just feels more grounded than Hegel. If it brought me down, I wouldn’t read it. There’s something deeply therapeutic about Schopenhauer’s pessimistic philosophy that I don’t get from Hegel.

I hate how people just go with “Why would I want to read Schopenhauer when he’s a pessimist…yadayada”…it’s because the way he’s talked about not the way his philosophy actually is.

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AnAppariti0n t1_j0vbugh wrote

Reply to Our stated political beliefs are irrational when taken as a package – the don’t appear to form coherent wholes. But we should be skeptical about whether these irrational political beliefs are really beliefs by IAI_Admin

Exactly why so many people are just frustrated, they feel themselves compelled to mold to the confines and package values of a party when the reality is the individual issues are what matter. I hate when people automatically label me a Dem or Rep or whatever when I answer my thoughts on an issue. No, that’s my thoughts on that issue, please don’t just assume “Ok that’s what Dems think so naturally all my other views line up with Dems”. It’s the inherent flaw of party politics is that there are only two “boxes” you are allowed to be in when there are in actuality innumerable combinations of stances one can have. In other words I think a lot of political frustration is that many people don’t feel well-represented by either of the two major political parties.

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