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.
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Oh yes. I’m a big fan of Thacker’s pessimist stuff. Paul Ennis has been urging everyone who’ll listen to buy the new book. The problem I have with pessimism is it resonates so well with me that I rarely really sit down and think through a text. There is an immediacy in lines like “Teach me to laugh through tears” that seem too sudden to be analysed. Pessimism is revelation rather than deduction.
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.