““Everything not only ties together, towards that infinity, but often things cancel out, like opposite sides of political debates.” The question is whether that canceling out or equilibrium has normative force, and if so whether it’s positive or negative. I think the equilibrium (at the end of time, etc) is amoral, which makes it monstrous in Lovecraft’s cosmicist sense.”

The issue is that both sides are pulling us. The energy towards the future and infinity, while the forms toward equilibrium and the past. The heart and the head.

That’s why people who put all the emphasis on figuring things out tend to be more pessimistic, than those who just go with their feelings.

Yes, feelings do fade into the past as well, intellectuals retort, but those are the patterns of the feelings, rising and falling, like waves, while the energy transforms onto further waves.