No. Thanks for the rec! (As I've mentioned too many times, Phil Dick had a special spot for the schizos but was probably (self-)diagnosed with OCD)
Yes, The happiness of Sisyphus is exactly what I think an update of the classical eudaimonia would uh formalize.
(I think it was Camus that predicted that the US would eventually lose its position as the leader of civilisation but I haven't been able to find the exact quote, or the context)
(can we figure out a way for Bartle Taxonomy "killers" to spend their effort battling each other? to what extent is that what "sport" is already about?)
Was the globalist saint unable to rationalize out of suffering the killer-instinct? (Have not read R&S but that was written when he was suffering less?)
Meanwhile..
Math (or other similar disciplines) should strive to become a spectator sport!!
I think fencing may well become a spectator sport before maths! (they try, with plexi masks, but I don't think adding faces will help at all: the basic problem is it's a different way of observing and a different way of acting to almost all peoples' experience) Koerner doesn't believe maths is a spectator sport even for professional mathematicians: https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~twk10/Lecture.pdf#page=5
> The first and most important thing is to remember that most mathematicians are lost most of the time during lectures. (If you do not believe me, ask around.) Attending a mathematics lecture is like walking through a thunderstorm at night. Most of the time you are lost, wet and miserable but at rare intervals there is a flash of lightning and the whole countryside is lit up.
Have you seen "Clans of the Alphane Moon"? (let the hebrephenics be the saints, the megalomaniacs the politicians, the paranoid the generals, etc.)
As to existential suffering, we must imagine Sisypuss happy: https://i.chzbgr.com/full/5718194432/h98546CBC/furred-world-...