Inequality Lamentism

 Qissy's Delightful Walrus-Shaped Verbal Ecstasy (the publisher) ambivalently presents:

INEQUALITY LAMENTISM

A philoso-passionate text art monster
of WTF compromise between egalitarianism and elitism
with cringe displays of poisonous love

This book offers a new perspective on the project of relieving suffering by means of philosophically informed ideology, one that suggests a calculated compromise between egalitarian and elitist approaches. This new approach, called “inequality lamentism”, rejects the post-modern anti-reason cancel-chaos underpinning most egalitarianism; while also dissuading us against the modernist fetishized over-absolutism behind elitism (i.e., fascism). This can be thought of as an anthem for epistemic meta-modernism and a call for “woke 2.0”.

Of course, the author has no confidence that their inequality lamentism will be taken seriously, and consequently wraps their offering in deep, artfully expressed pessimism.

The ideas and themes are unique, original, passionate, and creatively expressed. But, unfortunately, the execution of their presentation is un-scholarly, often repetitive, and sloppy; owing to the author’s poverty and clinical lethargy. The author thus invites us to consider the book more as a work of text art, or a coded artifact of their psychosis, or both. Either way, prepare for about .368 WTF moments per page.

The format is a somewhat ordered collection of allegorical discourse vignettes (and some poems) wherein you’ll meet such characters as: Instance of Great Suffering, The Omnipotence Twins (Deity and Culture), The Angel of Mereological Nihilism (a challenge to hard AI-based accelerationism), The Demon of Unrequited Love, and The Shrine Keeper at the Great Epistemic Quagmire.

The volume includes an “Appendix for Philosophy Geeks” wherein the author offers a brief snapshot of their takes on metaphysics, epistemology, physicalism vs anti-physicalism, and meta-ethics.

WARNING: Contains sexually vulgar language.


The book features links to external sources for both entertainment and information.

This page is a linked index of those external source links, with embedded videos.

This page is the same linked index, but for weaker devices that can't handle a mass of embedded videos all at once.


SAMPLES FROM THE BOOK

This BLOG you are looking at contains a few posts that are in the book. You can here review them:

1. Instance of Great Suffering Walks Into a Bar (an earlier version)

2. The Mythical Metaphorical Quest for Real Knowledge of How to Relieve Suffering

3. 3 Kisses 

4. Lovemaking in the Post-Revolutionary Era

5. My Heroes at War

6. The Bizarre Experience of Peikoff's "Life as the Standard of Value" Lecture

 

And here's a passage that got dropped from the book:

Utilitarian Court of the Uber Trolley Problem 



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