Hundeschlitten

“Unless he stands on his own feet the so-called objective values profit him nothing since they only serve as a substitute for character”
― C.G. Jung, The Undiscovered Self

“I do not care to inspect too closely those other lives lived by men who might almost have been myself”
― Gerald Murnane, The Plains

“It was what any of them would have done, to have done less would have been cowardice and disgrace... what would pass for heroics in a softer world was only chores around here”
― Wallace Stegner, Wolf Willow

“It is the very character of domestic life to present the world as an enclosed owned space, and, although mankind adapts itself on the whole to this condition, both biologically and culturally, yet there remains a glimmer of the opposite tendency inside even the lowliest. He can’t help but experience this new state of things in late civilizations except with dread, the dread suspicion...an uncanny suspicion..... that the world is artificial. He begins to sense that this hothouse he lives in is the malevolent creation of a demiurge that likes to observe our sufferings, that He and his minions feed on them. In the remote future, should the evil of human innovation continue unchecked, we really will live in the world the Gnostics feared, and that spark of vital life and energy that is the gift of nature to all youthful peoples born from its womb, that spark will remain entrapped in “matter wrongly configured,” matter entirely foreign to its inborn desires and workings, but fashioned instead for the benefit of something else.”
― Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset