do you agree too with Hammish, Trump voters lives don't matter ?
I think the cosmos exists to erase us all. You're asking an existential nihilist with Taoist sensibilities the kind of question that's going to get you all the answers you don't like. Now, my version of
existential nihilism stems from an everyday sensitivity to
mono no aware, not from a profound lassitude or exhaustion. I think
nothing matters, and that everything we do is for naught. That is the truth of the universe, not a rejection of it.
From which I draw two very necessary surmisals about
how to live:
1. First, we all die alone. Even in a room of loved ones, after a delightful final feast, at the time of one's choosing, we go into the final darkness as we emerged from the primal one, alone. That makes every single living thing a precious and tragic fluttering of something like magic, but a magic doomed to inescapable annihilation. The aloneness (the philosophical term is severalty) burdens every one of us with three equally ineluctable conditions: freedom, contingency and accountability. We none of us possess them, or comprehend them, in equal degrees, at the same time, or in the same manner. But because no one can escape these conditions, we all at a minimum owe each other a respect for how they shape lives before those lives become aware. The short word for
all that is: tolerance. Leave people free to work it out as long as their working it out doesn't prevent others from doing so too. Or colloquially,
as I am not going to die your death I don't get to live your life.
2. Lots of people face this realization of ultimate meaninglessness, and their senses of self do not survive the encounter. There are numberless ways of coping. And since most of the human race is composed of storytellers, a lot of that coping takes the shape of stories. Stories learned too early to be questioned objectively. Stories that allow for sleep, or distraction, or love, or a quiet self-destruction. Stories none of us, referring to 1.) above, have sufficient freedom or license to disrupt. We need not assist in them, but to thieve them from others during the too brief instances of their sentience, is nearly unforgivable. The short word for this is:
compassion.
From these two, preceding, I derive a final and equally necessary corollary: that those who violate
toleration and
compassion surrender their claims upon either. Like all the rest of us, their lives are meaningless, but they have transmutated that into enmity, into the worship of death. They must be dealt with, I think, in relation to the magnitude of their efforts to poison life's meaninglessness with intolerance, hatred, suffering and shame.
So, let me ask you: how does Trumpism rate, within those confines?
Yeah. You have your answer.