Anti-Natal Equanimity
00:00-05:12 Lean back
05:12-09:27 Desire and undesire
09:27-37:15 I actually read The Chapter
37:15-39:58 Translation woes
39:58-41:49 Pavlovian recall / Ironic drawback of Cynicism
41:49-43:52 Implications for living wisely once convinced of pessimism
43:52-46:35 No one will live the Roundly Good Life
46:35-47:55 Eliminative Pluralism as the analytical pessimist’s ammo against narrow ‘Good Life’ criteria and procreative hubris.
47:55-49:50 Will Pounds You
49:50-52:52 Virtue against individuality
52:52-1:00:48 Important bits from Schopenhauer’s Psychological Observations essay (best of)
Older and better: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/40868...
Newer: https://antilogicalism.com/wp-content...
Psychological Observations: https://web.archive.org/web/201304301...
How parents Lean In: https://nypost.com/2018/09/10/parents...
https://www.thecut.com/2015/03/we-liv...
(Some stats in there; studies I’ve not bothered to read, so I’m only linking to the piece, but there's more linked in there. I’ve read more on “Parents Worry More Than Non-Parents” in terms of data than I can recall/recite. But only an unobservant blind fool would need it statistically anyway)
Parental fears and worries, unchecked by rational agents, can lead to more possessiveness, myopic grubbiness, and analytic self-handicapping by said parents: https://sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/...
https://iep.utm.edu/stoicism/
And with TWO entries on SEP:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/st...
https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/w...
Briefly mentioned: • Post
Worth a reread: https://philpapers.org/archive/PREWPI
Maher was too worried: • Post
Just because I’m super fair, that last one is an example of a proud and outspoken non-parent being dumb and fearful in, ahem, “politically parental” ways.
Bye!