Tag: Nihilism

• February 1, 2012

  On 2 metaphysical comportments: nay-saying and yea-saying

  Nay-saying If a way of life begins with a “no” to life, then it seeks to ask first, “How do we protect those around us from being harmed?” Out of this “no” to life springs forth law, rights, the minimal abstentionist state, and the idea of national security. If the point of the primordial “no”…
• January 9, 2012

  On the life need of cuisine; or, how we forgot how to eat

  I went to a dinner party this past weekend in which a lovely woman told a story that, to me, read like an allegory of irony. It went something like this: she’s kneeling at her father’s casket, weeping. Behind her in the pews, just within earshot, a man says to the man next to him,…