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
6 months 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.
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. .
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.”
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.
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
6 months ago
There’s a difference between questioning, deeply so – and thus acknowledging the contradictions inherent in human consciousness – and being lost.
Last edited 6 months ago by Steve Murray
Allison Barrows
6 months ago
This essay makes Curtis Yarvin seem lucid.
Madas A. Hatter
6 months 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.
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
6 months 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.
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
6 months 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.
Drug-addled ramblings.
I’m not sure that drugs had anything to do with it. It reads more like a simple combination of smugness, pretentiousness and stupidity.
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.
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.
Me too, but not in any good way.
Exactly! I gave up halfway through so it’s nice to feel validated. Thank you, Simon.
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. .
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.”
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.
So you read Cioran for fun?
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.
There’s a difference between questioning, deeply so – and thus acknowledging the contradictions inherent in human consciousness – and being lost.
This essay makes Curtis Yarvin seem lucid.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
I disagree that the sixties were damaging for all women. Some of us had a ball!
This is hilarious. Does anyone want to split a tenner from Pseuds Corner. Which bit would you choose though?
Christ, what pretentious drivel. Time for UnHerd to drop this sad clown and Druid boy as well.