>>508847006[From Nick Land essay Hell-Baked]
"The logical consequence of Social Darwinism is that everything of
value has been built in Hell.
It is only due to a predominance of influences that are not only entirely
morally indifferent, but indeed — from a human perspective — indescrib-
ably cruel, that nature has been capable of constructive action. Specific-
ally, it is solely by way of the relentless, brutal culling of populations
that any complex or adaptive traits have been sieved — with torturous
inefficiency — from the chaos of natural existence. All health, beauty,
intelligence, and social grace has been teased from a vast butcher’s yard
of unbounded carnage, requiring incalculable eons of massacre to draw
forth even the subtlest of advantages. This is not only a matter of the
bloody grinding mills of selection, either, but also of the innumerable
mutational abominations thrown up by the madness of chance, as it
pursues its directionless path to some negligible preservable trait, and
then — still further — of the unavowable horrors that ‘fitness’ (or sheer
survival) itself predominantly entails. We are a minuscule sample of
agonized matter, comprising genetic survival monsters, fished from a
cosmic ocean of vile mutants, by a pitiless killing machine of infinite
appetite. (This is still, perhaps, to put an irresponsibly positive spin on
the story, but it should suffice for our purposes here)"
