Alienation from work, from others, from oneself. Essays on the structural conditions of estrangement in modern life.
Rising mental distress and alienation in late modernity are not merely societal failings but experiential evidence for the antinatalist claim that suffering is an intrinsic feature of sentient existence.
To be is to be condemned to meaninglessness. An existentialist reading of the ethics of birth, from Sartre to Cioran.
Emil Cioran's aphorisms are not a formal argument for antinatalism but a profound literary witness to the trouble with being born, viewing existence itself as a fundamental imposition and a calamity.
Rising rates of mental illness are not mere individual pathologies but symptoms of a deepening alienation endemic to modern life—a diagnosis that gives weight to the antinatalist critique of existence.
While existentialists like Camus and Sartre championed creating meaning in a meaningless world, their core premises about absurdity and freedom logically support an antinatalist conclusion.
Existentialists like Camus and Sartre affirmed life in the face of meaninglessness, but their core premises about absurdity and freedom can be read to support a more pessimistic, even antinatalist, conclusion.
Emil Cioran's aphorisms, especially in "The Trouble with Being Born," offer a powerful literary testament to antinatalist thought, arguing that birth itself is a profound imposition.
Rising rates of mental illness and alienation in late modernity lend credence to the antinatalist assessment of existence.
In an age of unprecedented connectivity and material wealth, why are we lonelier and more desperate than ever? This essay explores the crisis of late modernity through the lens of philosophical pessimism and the antinatalist diagnosis.
While arguments for procreation appeal to joy, gratitude, and potential, they fail to overcome antinatalism's core claim: that imposing certain harm for uncertain good is ethically indefensible.