You shall digest the venom of your spleen,
Though it do split you.
There are ideas that make rational sense but are too emotionally upsetting to be entertained. — Bitter Crank
Whether the future looks bright and interesting or bleak and dull—and what we should then do about it—is determined by emotions over which we do not have much control. For instance, the inextinguishably cheerful, happy person will probably not settle on anti-natalism as their philosophical stance. They may see the point of the antinatalist, but life seems to them too good to deny.
As Freud said, “we are not masters of our own houses” and that includes what we think. — Bitter Crank
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