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I Want You To Live a Beautiful Life
Loyalty is the only political virtue because trust is the only good thing in the world. Trust between people is literally the only important thing. It is unfortunately also counter to every fundamental principle in the modernistic worldview, and ultimately at some point you have to choose between “luxury goods”, material tools that you can use to reverse engineer your monkey brain instincts and trick yourself into feelings a jolly tingle, or — fulfilling human relationships. that’s basically it.
When we talk about “the absurd”, absurdity in philosophy and literature, this does not mean “coo coo crazy nutso, completely bananas the joker crazytown”. Strictly speaking what it means is just “at odds with previous assumptions”. In a history of philosophy/history of ideas sense, it means, “at odds with the set of assumptions about human life and the world in late industrial society”. Which is to say, at odds with a crude, vulgar materialism, scientism, rationalism. “irrational”.
You may interpret this word “absurd” as meaning “coo coo banana brains pants on head retarded”. If you do this, you do this because you either knowingly or not, accept rationalist, materialist, scientism-ist premises about ontology and epistemology: that there is a rational order to either the world, or to the human mind, or both, and that everything can (and ought to) be autistically sorted into neat little autistic categories and reduced to algebra.
