February 2008 Archives

Death and Pleasure

Is pleasure necessary? Is the necessity of pleasure (assuming a yes answer) negative or positive? Do we find a determination for living in a sometimes artificial need (assuming a positive answer), do we determine equal need in dying?

What benefit, conformity? When might conformity be rebellious? When group consciousness is as much a form of conformity and being conscious is rebellion?

Numb to Irony

Who listens, who reads, who understands...who cares?

I wonder sometimes whether there is an anomaly in calling the statement "who cares" a question, for it so often takes the form of a definitive statement.

Have I cared? Some months have passed since I felt anything at all, other than the certainty that I was numb. Another irony: Numbness is a feeling.