"Existing produces mental and physical suffering. Other people or society as a whole can exacerbate suffering produced by existing. The source of this mental and physical suffering is powerlessness. An individual that feels powerless may reject the conditions that produce the powerlessness and retaliate through wrath as an attempt to gain power. The attempt to gain power through wrath is either the attempt to supersede the powerlessness by trying to obtain all the power one can get (which indirectly creates destructiveness in the individual and society), or the direct destruction of anything that creates powerlessness.
Wrath is destruction and destruction is power. Wrath is extreme power and extreme power is destruction."
Wrath is one of his five destructive tendencies, the others being depression, madness, hedonism, and ignorance. He says that human beings have the free will to act in any way they choose, and that actions can be categorized as either destructive or constructive.
Can you point me to other writers who have said the same thing?
Aiden Bell
>Beyond Goon an Evil
Christopher Peterson
>still doing aphoristic philosophy
Proofs or
Gabriel Butler
nice try goonan
Robert Nelson
Ah, it's been a while. Who #GoonSquad here?
Jeremiah Jackson
This book really boosted my sex drive
Ethan Myers
I haven't watched porn since I read this book
Robert Hall
Proof doesn't exist. You get /out/ and freeze, you impotent twerp.
Jose Perez
Nihilism is the stupidest fucking shit. Marek pissss on the fire we all see it happen. An them one guy denies it happened so it never happened and proof doesn't exist. You wanna kill yourself and it won't happen because you're a coward. Dude follow through or don't here's a guide.
I'm trying to find out if there is other material out there that has already covered exactly what is propounded philosophically in this book, because I believe he has created a new philosophy. What I posted above is just a portion.
It's not about it not being new, it's about it not being philosophical understand. Reads like the journal of an edgy and depressed 16yo
Matthew Smith
oi sean, you didn't answer me last time I asked How much will you pay me if I start shilling your book full time on Veeky Forums and /pol/? I'll happily take a 2.5% cut of all books sold
Dylan Campbell
2.5% of 0 is still 0
Kayden Ward
>The source of suffering is powerlessness? Hahahaha, this is Buddhism remixed with the 48 Laws of Power. Methinks Mr. Goonan is projecting.
Brandon Ross
>The source of suffering is powerlessness.
This actually makes sense.
Jaxson Foster
>Extremely simplistic statement without any rigorous explanation. >Thinks he is the greatest philosopher.
Get a Phd in philosophy. Spend your entire life building up a collection of published manuscripts in reputable philosophical journals. Then come here and tell me you have discovered a single "new" philosophical idea, which will probably be just a small footnote to another greater philosopher.
Samuel Rodriguez
That is such bullshit. Any person at any time can think of something revolutionary. An academic is a pathetic worm cuckold that thinks in circles, indoctrinates young minds with cuckold ideas, and collects a big pension to keep him nice and cozy his whole life in his ivory tower, AWAY FROM LIFE. That sort of environment attracts WEAK LOSERS. Conformists. Nothing of any value will ever come out of a cuckademic's mouth!
Nietzsche once said-
"There is no advantage to sending scholars out into new and dangerous hunting grounds, where courage, cleverness, and subtlety are required in every sense, where the great hunt (but also the great danger) begins, for scholars are no longer useful there."
Luis Hughes
Again from Nietzsche, also from Beyond Good and Evil like the last quote-
"Every age has invented its own divine type of naivety, which other periods may find enviable- and how much naivete, how much admirable, childlike, and endlessly foolish naivete lies in the scholar's faith in his own superiority, in the simple clueless confidence with which he instinctively treats the religious person as an inferior and lower type, one that he himself has grown away from, grown beyond, grown above- he, the presumptuous little dwarf and vulgarian, the diligent darting headworker and hard worker of ideas, of modern ideas!"
p.s why didn't you like Spergler's decline of the west Goonan?
Landon Diaz
Decent variety, but he hasn't read Infinite Jest.
Brayden Hill
>direct destruction of anything that creates powerlessness >destruction is power
So power destroys powerlessness? Seems tautological. What exactly is "power"?
Isaiah Richardson
>destruction is power
It seems like in that instance he is not really saying destruction "is" power, tit for tat, but rather it is an attempt to gain power. For example say a child is becoming frustrated at its inability to solve a challenging puzzle- the puzzle is creating a feeling of powerlessness in the child- so what does the child do? It throws the puzzle across the room at the wall. It tries to destroy it to gain power over it, or to regain a feeling of power within. Wrath.
