In this essay, I talk about how even the best lives aren't worth starting. Suffering and pain, being intrinsic to conscious existence, will always make themselves felt. By coming into conscious existence, we got an extremely bad deal. From a negative ethical standpoint, then, we shouldn't pass it forward. 

Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2020/11/life-is-very-bad-and-never-worth-it.html 

Music by CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA

It is amazing how little frightened most of us are of our circumstances. It is as if the entire business of humanity is to build a wall around reality and nature, which is violence, pain, death, decay and rebirth. 

Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2021/10/be-very-afraid.html

Music by CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcav...

In this essay, I discuss how Nietzsche was influenced by and eventually denied Schopenhauer's pessimistic philosophy, favoring a life-affirming posture. Later, in the 20th century, Cioran criticizes this. 

Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2021/06/nietzsches-dionysian-pessimism-and.html

Music by CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA

Utilizing a metaphorical and poetic language, we can state that our consciousnesses are imprisoned in our bodies, our flesh. However, the reality is even worse: our consciousnesses are part of our bodies, they arise from our flesh. They themselves are a prison. Once generated and born, we cannot escape. In this essay, I discuss how we're "locked" inside our bodies, which themselves are imprisoned in a time and a place, and we never know what kind of horrors this time and place will bring us — and these external horrors exist on top of the horrors that our own bodies are already capable of producing.  

Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2021/08/a-brief-commentary-on-prisons-of-flesh.html 

Music by REPULSIVE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsRbuU_ffaJuxagEGpXfNkg

All of us are part of nature's insidious game. If we took a good in the mirror we'd see in ourselves all the horror of the world — and if we were prudent, we'd deny the program in ourselves and refrain from making new fellow sufferers and monsters.  

Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2021/05/the-reflection-in-mirror.html

Music by CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA

In this essay, I discuss how existence is not only filled with suffering and death, but have suffering and death as its intrinsic features. I also discuss how, no matter the type of universe we happen to live in — one with a definitive beginning and end, or one that recycles itself and always gives rise to new suffering beings — the negative ethical imperative against the creation of new conscious beings remains the same. 

Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2021/04/suffering-death-everywhere.html 

Music by CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA

Birth, life, suffering, death, repetition — and just the right dose of dopamine to keep us from realizing how pointless this whole process is. Nature is insidious in how it makes us perpetuate ourselves. Even human events and history ends up being an endless repetition that goes nowhere.  

Full text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2021/09/repetition-and-decomposition.html 

Music by CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA

In this essay I go through a few reasons why it would have been better not to have been, and how not even an Utopia would change this preference.  

Full text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2021/04/better-to-remain-in-potentiality.html 

Music by CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA

In this essay I emphasize the idea that while, from a pessimist standpoint, the best is not to be born and so we should abstain from creating new conscious beings, that doesn't change the fact that there are people alive today that live under immense man-made forms oppression. These are forms of oppression that could very well be remedied if only we stopped preying on each other. Telling oppressed peoples to just stop reproducing doesn't answer their predicament, since even if they ended up agreeing with a cosmic pessimist outlook and voluntarily stopped creating new conscious beings, that still wouldn't solve the rest of their lives under the yoke of man-made forms oppressions — only political action is able to do that.

Full text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2020/11/avoidable-blood.html

Music by CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA

In this essay, I talk about how many of us, to a greater or smaller degree, believe history has a purpose or direction towards the fulfillment of reason and progress, and how that belief is unwarranted. If cockroaches could reason like men, they too would believe roach history had a purpose. 

Full text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2020/11/men-and-cockroaches.html 

Music by CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA