Optimistic Passage of the Day

[sundog]

"He heard the voice in the bones speak of something different than it had before. What it told him was not the hopelessness of being shackled to this world. Instead, the voice awoke in him the memory of another time or another place that had not been so abused by changes. Nothing of the kind had ever entered his thoughts, so far as he could recall. (...) Maybe there was a way out.. the ultimate change by which he could leave all changes and never return. Not an unending existence of changes but a changeless oblivion. (...) Once it had been a fearful thought, something to be changed - non-being. Over eons the fear had been eradicated, and then the thought itself. (...) Joyous of his new-found mortality, he walked to the window and bounded across its ledge. Now it was over for him. One day it would be over for all, that terrible dream of everlasting changes that held us to a place that never should have been if its greatest intention led only to wallowing in the muck of eternity."

- THE VOICE IN THE BONES, T. Ligotti.

[MTC]

Is there still an answer to the question 'What is to be done?' Is there an answer, beyond the obvious advice to stop proliferating, to stop throwing innocent flesh onto the expanding burning stake? For the moment, there is no other answer.

Since September 11th 2001, suicide is the decisive political act of our times. When human life is worthless, humiliation grows until it becomes intolerable and explosive. Perhaps hope can only come from suicides.

- Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Precarious Rhapsody