Ligotti: >Society would have you think you're a person but you're really just like everything else and it's a big horrible nothing.
Watts: >Society would have you think you're a person but you're really just like everything else and it's a big wonderful everything.
Gavin Allen
Is Ligotti as good as Cioran?
Jayden Adams
I haven't read his fiction which supposedly has good prose but I didn't really like his writing style in this. He has a nice way of putting things at times but the style in general feels a bit stunted and tiresome and it can feel like a chore to read, whereas Cioran is a joy to read even if you don't really care for his gloomy message.
John Reed
Not even close.
Jacob Rivera
Speaking strictly as philosopher, not really. As a writer and stylist, maybe (though mostly with his short fiction, not so much Conspiracy)
Charles Bell
He's a genre fiction pleb.
Connor Sanchez
Schopenhauer vs Nietzsche
Kevin Bell
The difference is simply how much access to the opposite sex each writer has/had.
Camden James
Does pussy bring fulfilment?
Eli Reed
Yeah, the difference is that Ligotti was an alpha male with access to any women he wanted and yet realized the horror of existence. And Watts is a permavirgin dweeb.
Ethan Thompson
It's like you honestly don't know what the fuck you are talking about. Watts had several children and was known to be a bit of a womanizer.
Jonathan Williams
That's all rumors though, and the children could be someone else's.
Elijah Russell
>Ligotti was an alpha male
would lol again
Austin Brown
Bullshit!!
>permavirgin
Wattsmarriedthree times and had seven children, also played the guru game probably got some top hippie pussy
Owen Williams
Ligotti's, likely.
Josiah Turner
>ligotti fanboy raging like a dip
protip: you are a dweeb too
Chase James
Yes, its a lot easier to delude yourself that life is equitable when you feel invested in carnal pleasures I suppose. Narrows the wide-angle view you get about an hour after masturbation.
Ryan King
yikes
Levi Gonzalez
A few of those kids are probably Ligotti's
Leo Jackson
>people thinking this is serious
Or maybe they are simply counter-rusing, and I've been played for a fool! That's the great thing about this whacky website -- things can get topsy-turvy at a moment's notice!
Christopher Ward
Handsome antinatalists like Ligotti are dweebs by choice.
Matthew Powell
Yes. Cioran and Ligotti are both very good writers.
Tyler Flores
Watts was also a depressive alcoholic.
The "pussy solves all your problems" meme could only be perpetuated by someone who has never gotten pussy, and is immediately comical to anyone who has actually gotten pussy.
Nicholas Stewart
I noticed the similarity between Alan watts' "The Book" and "The Ego and its Own" by Max Stirner as well. Watts even goes on to use the term "spook" to describe essentially exactly what Stirner was.