human1: to some people, this is the best part of the day . . .
(human2 is confused)
h1: 5 o'clock.
(h2 now understands perfectly; Kevin Arnold Facial Shift coupled with Knowing Nod)
h2: yeah, but for others(!)--
h1: it's the worst! so anxious!
h2: yeah, released from our slavery, thrown into freedom, for those of us unwilling to merely perpetuate the dominant practice of post-work recreation only serving to reinforce the status quo, only offering a more comfortable shackle upon our wrist, the pull of the throw pillow... we feel the tension of flux, of who we are trying to become. and our hearts ghosten?
h1: yes.
h2: it's called becoming alienated from our humanity.
i, i, i
- steven
- "Seeing that before long I must confront humanity with the most difficult demand ever made of it, it seems indispensable to me to say who I am. Really, one should know it, for I have not left myself "without testimony." But the disproportion between the greatness of my task and the smallness of my contemporaries has found expression in the fact that one has neither heard nor even seen me. I live on my own credit; is it perhaps a mere prejudice that I live? ... I need only to speak with one of the "educated" who come to the Upper Engadine for the summer, and I am convinced that I do not live ... Under these circumstances I have a duty against which my habits, even more the pride of my instincts, revolt at bottom, namely, to say: Hear me! For I am such and such a person. Above all, do not mistake me for someone else!" - Nietzsche, Ecce Homo
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