Keepin' Me Blogging

I step away from this blog for one day, and the comments fields go crazy! Special thanks to Devon, Brandy, David, Matthew, Dan, and Eric G. for taking the time to drop me a line this time around (especially Eric-- it's been awhile!). And lets not forget the person in meatspace I've been hanging out with lately as well -- every nice word keeps this ridiculous Panopticon going a little bit longer, and I mean that in a good way. Today's #1 reason to be a blogger comes from Dan, who offers some stunning reflections on his own experience of hopelessness worthy of Houellebecq himself:

another person offered a bit of his experience with hopelessness, basically saying (again, my words) that it is hopeless, but it is not only hopeless. "it's hopeless, and..." the "and" dot dot dot is what keeps him going. that doesn't negate the hopelessness. it just means that it's hopeless, and... [the world is] hopeless, but it's so beautiful it makes me cry. it's hopeless, but i'm so in love with it that i could never turn my back. it comes back to that classic question in response to the "it's hopeless" statement, which is "but would you have it any other way?" and my answer is an emphatic "no" (with a hint of skepticism of my certainty).

Thanks Dan.