The Book Club's video: Thomas Good Vibes Only Ligotti - The Conspiracy Against The Human Race

My personal opinion is that this book should be banned. I made an earlier draft of this video where I was being kinda serious in trying to pick apart the idiocies of Ligotti's conclusions about what's up with the whole thingymajiggy, but then I was like, huh argumentation is futile and had to redo everything. In any case, the philosophy of pessimism is just as weak as its supposed naivety of its counterpart, le Optimism. I get the whole curmudgeon-y hatred of Optimism as it seems like to sell anyone anything you have to be all superficially smiley, but really, to just reverse that is just as much bullshit in my book. "Universe is MALIGNANTLY USELESS" this is probably just grandstanding to look cool, but to say that something is useless, you presuppose that something useful exists. etc.. who gives a fuck. Pisses me off though that some dumb teenager might get this book then possibly hang themselves, but either way, if you hang yourself ur dumb as shit... "We don't have free will bc we're just multiplicities, i.e. forces." Right, well what are those multiplicities composed of? Smaller multiplicities? Other forces? ... imo this just turns into (((infinite))) regress. Not buying it not now not ever. Plus mechanistic understanding of the universe from cause and effect could clearly be just as much a byproduct of human perspective on reality as Free will is. The fundamental truth about why we're here is still : MYSTERY. "yadda yadda strawmanning exoteric readings of religions to strengthen my clearly *toxic* atheism" yikes Don't wanna sound ghey here but from experiential forays into the beyond I've pretty much concluded that if you want to "know" more about why we're here you have to let go of syllogistic thinking, it's just too slow a vehicle to deal with the excesses of information speed on the other side, jussayin. If you wanna argue on these points, I'm actually down for that, seeing as I don't really believe that anything is "useless" or "meaningless" in this universe, although maybe I'm just trying to exploit u for my greedy youtube gainz who knows. I'd suggest reading Lovecraft instead, I haven't read any of Ligotti's stories tho, and apparently they're pretty good. I don't think UG or the other dude would have been very happy being cited in this book either. Here's a really quite beautiful review on a Ken Wilbur book by the scientist ego-death guy that runs against a lot of what Tommy was saying http://www.kenwilber.com/Writings/PDF/GG--Wren2-p.pdf I get accused of copying Sam Hyde a lot, which I think is warranted, but what I find curious is that no one accuses me of plagiarising from Chuck, who i feel i have more of a debt to. these videoes from mr Carroll p much sum up to me how far T-boy is off the mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlWSJHjhTJM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb0u7XSLT8o&t=110s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXQSs_xqg0Y in any case, wouldn't it be more horrific if there was free will? Like if every decision you made actually mattered.. i dunno ya might say i'm being salty, but only cause i feel like i'm reading what i used to think ~5 years ago when i was getting real D-pressed and i thought i knew everything. also, this gave me a mini 5 day long slump so i'm pretty pissed off about that as well.