Duality and Enjoying the Abomination

Even with full knowledge of the horrors of life we can still derive pleasure from it.

Schopenhauer made a big deal of the division between subject and object. The subject is you and the object is everything else. And so we get a division into subjective (the way we see things) and objective (the way things are independent of our experience). There are those who would insist that there is no difference between our subjective experience of…