[MD] Essentialism

[Case]

[Ham]
To get Essentialism "right", you start as the nihilist does by contemplating
Nothingness, and you realize two things rather quickly: it's unimaginable,
and it can't lead to anything.  At that point you can either "give up" and
say "all is vanity", or you can conclude, as I did, that the ultimate source
of all things is the antithesis of nothingness -- absolute "IS-ness" -- the
necessary primary source which I call Essence.  That's the first step; but,
unfortunately, it's too big a hurdle for most people, even for the gifted
author of the MoQ who decided that metaphysics would destroy his poetry
(still essentially mystical) and -- even worse -- take us back to religion 
and supernaturalism.