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    The Burning Block No. 9
    The Burning Block No. 9
    The Burning Block No. 9
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    The Burning Block No. 9

    By Shane Eide

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    In issue No. 9, Max Stirner’s gatekeepers are identified, the reader is challenged to accept Fukayama’s ‘end of history’ thesis as a masochistic experiment in banality, and current events are considered a detriment to mental health. Complete with a theory about conspiracy theories, a murderous incel, an onanistic Irish drinking song and a proposal to legalize human sacrifice, the ninth installment of this exercise in apocalyptic satire is the wildest yet.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShane Eide
    Release dateMar 28, 2019
    ISBN9780463563144
    The Burning Block No. 9
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    Shane Eide

    Shane Eide is a part-time hermit, part-time flaneur, which means that he is either spending time on literary pursuits or taking walks and thinking about literary pursuits​. He lives in a little room walled with books and sleeps near a big desk, on which he doesn't write since all the quiet is too distracting. He usually goes someplace noisy in order to write as much about fiction as he writes fiction. He's been writing fiction since he was about 11, in which time he's written several novels that he never intends to publish and which no one will ever see, and several others that he wants to publish that he's read out loud to his gold fish. He's been writing what he supposes would be called non-fiction ever since he wrote "Shane was here," in easily erasable pencil on a desk in junior high. You can read his essays and occasional fiction at his blog, www.emergenthermit.com

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      The Burning Block No. 9 - Shane Eide

      THE BURNING BLOCK

      Art, Apocalypse and Satire

      Vol. II - No. 9

      March 28, 2019

      EDITED

      by

      SHANE EIDE

      Quelling the effects of the apocalypse by making them more ecumenically palatable

      Copyright

      © The Burning Block Vol. II, No. 9

      Edition 1 Published by Shane Eide, March 28, 2019

      Edited by Shane Eide

      Cover design by Shane Eide

      Cover image by Kathryn Eide

      Portland Oregon

      The contents of this issue may not be republished elsewhere or redistributed by anyone but Shane Eide without permission, with the exception of brief excerpts for the sake of review or reference.

      The contents of this issue are featured here with minor edits and improvements, having first appeared at EmergentHermit.com.

      Contents

      All written by Shane Eide

      Neo-Pessimism

      Reviews

      The Launch of JQ Magazine

      The Last Dying Gasp of Romance - A Review of Incel by Corey Ruttner

      Articles I

      Why Tuning Out of Current Events Is Imperative to Your Mental Health

      Tao

      The Anarchist Monopoly on Max Stirner's Philosophy

      The Difference Between Conspiracy Theory and Occult Political Theory

      A Diary: January 2019 - March 2019

      Articles II

      Regrets In Reading

      Legalize Human Sacrifice

      Your Masculinity Is a Pain In Me Arse

      Neo-Pessimism

      Pessimism is now optimism.

      We believe everything is falling apart because we want it to. Destruction will save us. Violence will cleanse our society of toxic people. The collapse of institutions will allow us to create new infrastructure. The total failure of representative democracy will lead to direct democracy. The obsolescence of the state will lead to anarchy. The absence of parliamentary politics will lead to monarchy. Ebola will reduce the population to ecologically sustainable levels. War will wipe out all of the empires that were vying for power, leaving behind only the simple people in between the margins who just wanted to be left alone.

      Better yet, a cosmic event will wipe out all of mankind. We won’t miss ourselves if we’re all gone.

      These are no longer dreads, but sources of great hope, whether unconsciously for humble folk or consciously for dissidents of all kinds.

      Accepting the death of God, the secular world has far from parted with the notion of an impending End of Days. Having lost our belief in redemption, we believe only in the reset button, the revolution, the asteroid, the curse of the pale horse.

      Perhaps, we think, Australia just isn’t the best place to be when the shit hits the fan and that Mad Max wouldn’t have been so bad had it taken place somewhere else. Or perhaps, some of us would see in this kind of world an occasion for adventure and would rather prefer the might is right struggle concentrating itself to the honesty of brute, vitalist force, blood and war of all against all.

      But what if I were to tell you that there is still the potential to cultivate within our breasts an even deeper dread, and one that may not be satisfied?

      What if the ultimate truth of our condition was not met with a bang nor with a whimper, but rather, a great sigh of reprieve?

      What if Fukayama was right and we are destined to live at the end of history - certainly in no heaven but the closest thing to heaven on earth: This is our ultimate hell… No cleansing act of destruction is coming.

      Capitalism will not run itself into the ground like a hot and over-worked engine. Empires will engage in endless proxy wars whilst threatening nuclear war from time to time in order to sustain mutually assured anxiety.

      People will continue to vote and, every couple generations, cultural revolutions will oscillate back and forth between opposing value sets, giving every generation of young people a new piety to subvert, each one waiting its turn to finish its pipe on the porch and die with dignity or indignation.

      This is neo-pessimism: the absolute resolve that, perhaps, things will not change.

      We have stopped holding our breath for a sweet apocalyptic event which will subsequently result in a world that

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