Today, production has totalized itself to become the only way of life. The hysteria over health is ultimately the hysteria of production. Yet it destroys true vitality. The proliferation of healthiness is as obscene as the proliferation of obesity. It is a sickness; morbidity inheres in it. If one denies death for the sake of life, life itself turns into something destructive. It becomes self-destructive. Here, too, one finds a confirmation of the dialectic of violence.
