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Archibald Tennyson
Archibald Tennyson
1 year ago

Drug-addled ramblings.

Geoff W
Geoff W
1 year ago

I’m not sure that drugs had anything to do with it. It reads more like a simple combination of smugness, pretentiousness and stupidity.

J Bryant
J Bryant
1 year ago

That’s probably the most original essay I’ve read on Unherd.
This line struck home for me: “For E.M., it is those with no access to irresponsibility who are the world’s truly wretched.” I’m beginning to suspect a hefty dose of irresponsibility is the only sane reaction to the current state of our culture.
I suppose I should try to read something by Cioran, but I’m a little afraid. You probably need to be in quite a cheerful mood to read him without harm.

Julian Farrows
Julian Farrows
1 year ago
Reply to  J Bryant

Yes, I’m on the verge of giving up my job, selling my properties and heading off to the tropics with my beautiful young wife.

Simon Neale
Simon Neale
1 year ago
Reply to  J Bryant

That’s probably the most original essay I’ve read on Unherd.

Me too, but not in any good way.

Clare Knight
Clare Knight
1 year ago
Reply to  Simon Neale

Exactly! I gave up halfway through so it’s nice to feel validated. Thank you, Simon.

chris sullivan
chris sullivan
1 year ago
Reply to  J Bryant

As long as there remains some satisfaction in ‘knowing’ – we are OK – because the ‘void’ awaits all who ‘know’ but have not enough satisfaction with that state of being. .

Pat Rowles
Pat Rowles
1 year ago
Reply to  J Bryant

Yeah, but it’s like Samuel Johnson’s review said: the good parts aren’t original and the original parts aren’t good. It’s the kind of article I’d have expected, based on Fat White Family’s music and videos, and I think Unherd might be ‘in on the joke’: note that the caption on the photo at the top (of George Michael on his knees) reads; “George Michael’s soul checkmates itself.”

Jeff Butcher
Jeff Butcher
1 year ago
Reply to  J Bryant

I read Cioran when I’m feeling low because it cheers me up – it’s so utterly, utterly negative it makes me laugh. Kind of like the humour in a Beckett play.

Geoff W
Geoff W
1 year ago
Reply to  Jeff Butcher

So you read Cioran for fun?

Rocky Martiano
Rocky Martiano
1 year ago

Another 10 minutes of my life wasted reading this c**p on Unherd. I really should have given up after the first paragraph, but ploughed on in the hope the writer had something meaningful to say. He didn’t.

Steve Murray
Steve Murray
1 year ago

There’s a difference between questioning, deeply so – and thus acknowledging the contradictions inherent in human consciousness – and being lost.

Last edited 1 year ago by Steve Murray
Allison Barrows
Allison Barrows
1 year ago

This essay makes Curtis Yarvin seem lucid.

Madas A. Hatter
Madas A. Hatter
1 year ago

Posturing cant, almost accidentally containing (someone else’s) great gem: For E.M., it is those with no access to irresponsibility who are the world’s truly wretched.

jane baker
jane baker
1 year ago

Thank goodness I had access to irresponsibility then – but I didn’t have kids to feed and provide a home for,that is the most stupid statement I’ve ever read to quote a greater thinker,Kris Kristofferson “nothing ain’t worth nothing but it’s free”.

leonard o'reilly
leonard o'reilly
1 year ago

I read Cioran back in the day for the fun words like abulia and desuetude. The phrase “perpetually irritated at the heart of inanity” has stuck with me, though. An epitaph for the disaffected.

jane baker
jane baker
1 year ago

Got any spare change please. I need £3.27 so I can visit me old Mum and get a room for the night in the hostel.

jane baker
jane baker
1 year ago

Utterly pretentious. This fills the great Julie Burchills criteria of “a stupid person’s idea of clever”. Whoever this person is, they’ll grow up one day. The tragedy of George Michael is that he made a wrong choice. He chose to live wrong ie he thought embracing fashionable vice would keep him “relevant”. But he found out that sin leads to death. Even as I have found out. So don’t come back at me to not knock it till I’ve tried it. I’ve tried it and I’m knocking it. Odd that a sort of fake version of morality is back in fashion now that all my female peers feel able to admit that the sexual experiences they were allowed to have back in the late 1960s to mid 1970s due to the sexual freedom engendered by The Pill and the jettisoning of Victorian values,those sexual experiences were unpleasant,demeaning and psychologically damaging.
I expect that’s what happened to George Michael.

Clare Knight
Clare Knight
1 year ago
Reply to  jane baker

I disagree that the sixties were damaging for all women. Some of us had a ball!

Jane Davis
Jane Davis
1 year ago

This is hilarious. Does anyone want to split a tenner from Pseuds Corner. Which bit would you choose though?

starkbreath
starkbreath
1 year ago

Christ, what pretentious drivel. Time for UnHerd to drop this sad clown and Druid boy as well.