““We look at the world differently, Patrick.” Evelyn sniffs. “Thank god,” I say viciously. “You’re inhuman,” she says, trying, I think, not to cry. “I’m—I stall, attempting to defend myself—“in touch with … humanity.””
— American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis, Picador, 2000
— American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis, Picador, 2000
“We are friends from the beginning. We share grief and ground and gray dread. We even share the sun. We do not speak to each other, because we know too much. We are silent and smile our knowledge to each other. Together we have learned everything. Together we have learned to ascend over ourselves to ourselves.”
—F. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Part Three, “Before Sunrise,” (edited excerpt).
—F. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Part Three, “Before Sunrise,” (edited excerpt).
"Future’s curtain unravelled itself to reveal a nightmare of endless repetition, a senseless squander of organic material. The suffering of human billions makes its entrance into him through the gateway of compassion, from all that happen arises a laughter to mock the demand for justice, his profoundest ordering principle."
- Peter Wessel Zapffe
- Peter Wessel Zapffe
Ted kaczynski speaking about his brother, found in his memoir:
A traitor is always hated far more than a straight forward enemy, and is an object of contempt to everyone except those who expect their side to gain some advantage from his treason. I distinguish between a traitor and a defector. By a defector I understand one who (changes his ideology and his loyalty as a result of an extended period of serious soul searching. By a traitor I mean one who switches sides as a mere matter of convenience, or in order to gain some personal advantage, whether material or psychological. My brother is unquestionably a traitor. There is not the slightest evidence that he did any serious soul-searching before selling out. As soon as Linda Patrik offered him the opportunity, he unhesitatingly made himself her acolyte in order to satisfy his own peculiar psychological needs. In doing so he left the desert, promptly joined the consumer society, adopted its values, and even, as would appear from his Bee interview, acquired "faith in the system." His denouncing me to the FBI was not only a personal betrayal of me, it was an act of commitment to the system, its values, and its power. To those of us who regard the system as evil, my brother is another Judas Iscariot, except that, unlike the original Judas, he doesn't even have enough courage to go and hang himself.
A traitor is always hated far more than a straight forward enemy, and is an object of contempt to everyone except those who expect their side to gain some advantage from his treason. I distinguish between a traitor and a defector. By a defector I understand one who (changes his ideology and his loyalty as a result of an extended period of serious soul searching. By a traitor I mean one who switches sides as a mere matter of convenience, or in order to gain some personal advantage, whether material or psychological. My brother is unquestionably a traitor. There is not the slightest evidence that he did any serious soul-searching before selling out. As soon as Linda Patrik offered him the opportunity, he unhesitatingly made himself her acolyte in order to satisfy his own peculiar psychological needs. In doing so he left the desert, promptly joined the consumer society, adopted its values, and even, as would appear from his Bee interview, acquired "faith in the system." His denouncing me to the FBI was not only a personal betrayal of me, it was an act of commitment to the system, its values, and its power. To those of us who regard the system as evil, my brother is another Judas Iscariot, except that, unlike the original Judas, he doesn't even have enough courage to go and hang himself.