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"There's No 'Normal' to Return To: Death Drive Nation" - OaD Ep. 160

Owls at Dawn

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The Death Drive Is a Kind of Animating Principle

i was really struck by your critique of empiricism, and it made me think a little bit of the sort of, like predominance of sibernetic conceptions of the human as being primarily about stimuli. But this is why i fundamentally disagree with this entire approach. It just bad metaphysics, like, reallyreliklike, i'm going to kep som really,really, really, really fockin bad metaphysics. I don't understand why people just buy this shit. Even though, with one hand they'll be like, yes, but these models of rational choice theory and efficiency market hypothesis are just models that are. On the other hand, they literally build funking entire

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