Benjamin Cain
Mar 11, 2022

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You're understating your disagreement about nature. While I emphasize nature's monstrousness to explain our existential situation, I don't say the wilderness is wholly negative. Nature is sublime, awesome, and supremely creative as well as being obviously inhuman in its scale and amorality. Indeed, I argue for cosmicist pantheism.

I can see how an archaic revival might be said to "save" us, at least for some time. After all, we survived as hunter-gatherers in the wilderness for millions of years. But that would be evolutionary salvation, which means our species would eventually go extinct.

https://medium.com/the-philosophers-stone/enlightenment-and-cosmic-horror-f5a071a1870c?sk=7875e2f70bc69c5f179f6eadf97c574b

https://medium.com/interfaith-now/the-dread-of-pantheistic-enlightenment-7c87c60e85bb?sk=158f8bc9a1463ac78475169ba7eb1454

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/the-inherent-value-of-a-godless-universe-980314a44fd8?sk=48b94f7149c68a39653ffa52e533e973

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Benjamin Cain
Benjamin Cain

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