MALIGNANTLY USELESS
 

That is all.

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I have no other response than to not respond at all...

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... but malignantly useless with a sense of impeccable style.

Mark S.

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Malignantly stylish, perhaps?

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I think most style is both malign and useless.

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In the grand scheme of things (if there were a grand scheme of things), I think this would be an appropriate title for every thread.

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i always struggle to see the malignancy in uselessness. most of the useless things I encounter are really quite enjoyable, in some cases even more enjoyable than useful things.

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I agree with you, DH. Sometimes, the more useless, the better. It's very context-specific.

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I can't see any malice in something that is useless.

Surf e-bay, you'l find plenty of useless, non-malignant, things in there.

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As is argued with a quote from Herman Tønnessen in TCATHR (p. 181) it is from "a pursuance of a total view of Man's function - or malfunction - in the Universe, his possible place and importance in the widest conceivable cosmic scheme" that the world is to be considered MALIGNANTLY USELESS. "Intellectual honesty and Man's high spiritual demands for order and meaning may drive Man to the deepest antipathy to life and necessitate, as one existentialist [Peter Wessel Zapffe] chooses to express it: "A no to this wild, banal, grotesque and loathsome carnival in the world's graveyard."

So, there..

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thanks for digging up the quote! So... trying to grasp man's function or lack thereof in the universe is malignantly useless. Three cheers for ignorant hedonism!

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If it walks like a duck . . .