Onward with Thomas Ligotti’s oddly uplifting pessimistic work, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror! We’ll read the second half of the first chapter (“The Nightmare of Being”), pp.47-84.

This week, we continue with Thomas Ligotti’s fascinating The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror. By popular demand, we’ll read half of the first chapter (“The Nightmare of Being”), pp.19-46.

Explorations of The Conspiracy against the Human Race (Ligotti)

INTRODUCTION: OF PESSIMISM AND PARADOX

and from Black Seed: Issue 6

THE PUPPET AND THE BOMB

This week, two pieces of ressentiment (says I): “The Future is a Scam” and Peter Wessel Zapffe’s “The Last Messiah”.

Two more on education this week: Emma Goldman’s “The Child and its Enemies” and Layla AbdelRahim’s “Education as the Domestication of Inner Space”.