Violence from yang-excess in humans, & the destruction
that occurs in Nature, are disadvantageously lumped
together in every theory of Cosmic Evil. Perhaps that
is why it remains a philosophical "problem" to this
day. But by dividing it into two problems, one for
physics & one for psychology, i think a provisional
answer can be reached. ...It is necessary, however, to
distinguish yang-excess, "egotism", from being used
as a label for every manifestation of the social identity,
or "ego". The latter has different forms according to
one's type. The former is a pattern that results from
being cut-off from access to the unconscious...

'Think about those who haven't long to live, who know
that everything is over and done with, except the time
in which the thought of their end unrolls. Write for
gladiators...' --E M Cioran, The Trouble
With Being Born (1973)

Rabbits are voiceless & odorless. Such is the provenance
of the Meek. Cats are noisy & smelly. Such are carnivores.
As the super-carnivore, Mankind's only concept of
civilization seems to be to make the ultimatte racket & an
inescapable reek.

'The soul is the effect and instrument of a political
anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.' --The
Foucault Reader

The Sunday New York Times uses up 75,000 trees each time.

'There is no more steely barb than that of the infinite.'
--Baudelaire, Little Poems in Prose

Japan had a patriarchal, yin, culture.

'For questioning is the piety of thought.' --Heidegger,
"The Question Concerning Technology"

A vanishing privilege: to build for oneself.

'There are two gods, who are Ignorance and Forget-
fulness.' --Ruben Dario

Ego is a vessel on the gray sea of Time.