In the open asylum the lunatics can get hold of the technologies of their torture and turn them into the glittering electroshock therapies of deliverance. In a world of addiction perhaps the opium of the people (opium idiot, not religion) is the only way out. Inside the opium calmed waters of oblivion; escape.
http://www.continentcontinent.cc/index.php/continent/article/view/84
well not sure there is Pessimism that is any one thing or mode or such, for me i’m more interested in collage: cutting and pasting, adding and subtracting, playing with contrast-effects and affinities and such, more an attempt at immersion/exposure than in categorization/cataloging.