July 2011 – Huenemanniac

July 22, 2011

“Better never to have been”

A couple of students and I are reading David Benatar’s Better Never to Have Been, alongside our reading of Schopenhauer, which, among all the ways of passing sunny summer days, must count among the most inappropriate. Benatar’s book is an argument for the claim that bringing people into existence causes them harm. He admits that,… Continue reading

Books, Meanings of life / death / social & moral stuff

July 6, 2011

What my son and I have learned playing baseball

1. Throw like you mean it. Every time. Point your opposite shoulder where it’s going, focus on the other guy’s glove, and throw hard. Throwing a ball is the glory of man. 2. If the ball is hit near you, go for it, get under it, scramble for it, like your pants are on fire.… Continue reading

Meanings of life / death / social & moral stuff, This & that in the life of CH

July 1, 2011

Please join my campaign for illiteracy

Begin today. Find a child in your neighborhood, and unlearn them reading. “[Writing] will introduce forgetfulness into the soul of those who learn it; they will not practice using their memory because they will put their trust in writing, which is external and depends on signs that belong to others, instead of trying to remember… Continue reading

Books, Items of the academy / learning