December 2009
“To find everything profound — that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Curse, Bless Me Now
Bless me, father, for I have sinned. I have never been to confession. Does it hurt?
[Nietzsche tells me that I do this because I won’t go to a shrink and I don’t believe in confession. In our secularized society, the guilt we feel can be absolved by no one, and therefore it manifests as psychosis. It’s like we’re eating ourselves from the inside out.]
I don’t really...