I could have written at greater length but I don't believe I'm breaking the other guidelines. Schopenhauer isn't a fellow commenter, he's a historical figure an

I could have written at greater length but I don't believe I'm breaking the other guidelines. Schopenhauer isn't a fellow commenter, he's a historical figure and one of his most notable qualities was being incredibly abrasive, spiteful, and cantankerous, which informed a fair portion of his writing. There are many sources for this but I'll submit his essay "On Noise" as an example [1]. In it, he spends half a dozen paragraphs to reach the same conclusion as The Grinch in his eponymous Christmas special, for the same reasons. You may think the essay is satirical - it's not. It's representative. Discussing Schopenhauer without a clear view of his nature as an asshole is as lacking an analysis as reading Bukowski without the same. [1] https://genius.com/Arthur-schopenhauer-on-noise-annotated https://genius.com/Arthur-schopenhauer-on-noise-annotated