Yes! I'm glad you phrased this as a challenge because the first couple paragraphs were tough to get through but I'm glad I stuck with it. There are some real gems in here.
This is sad, fascinating and at times hilarious. Despite all the pain that might be behind them, some of the quotes are just so over-the-top that I laughed out loud after reading them. After all, what more can a puppet do? Consciousness without appropriate levels of dopamine and other neurotransmitters certainly does sound like a disease, an evolutionary mistake.
I just watched this excellent talk on depression by Robert Sapolsky and he touched on the fact that the most severely depressed individuals are not at the highest risk of suicide because they can't even summon the motivation for it. It makes sense then that someone who is completely anhedonic would go on living, but how does a person like Ligotti manage to be such a prolific writer in such a state? I think Splintering Bone Ashes Alex might be on to something with the inverted libido.
I read this decade old Livejournal entry. Can you?
Yes! I'm glad you phrased this as a challenge because the first couple paragraphs were tough to get through but I'm glad I stuck with it. There are some real gems in here.
This is sad, fascinating and at times hilarious. Despite all the pain that might be behind them, some of the quotes are just so over-the-top that I laughed out loud after reading them. After all, what more can a puppet do? Consciousness without appropriate levels of dopamine and other neurotransmitters certainly does sound like a disease, an evolutionary mistake.
I just watched this excellent talk on depression by Robert Sapolsky and he touched on the fact that the most severely depressed individuals are not at the highest risk of suicide because they can't even summon the motivation for it. It makes sense then that someone who is completely anhedonic would go on living, but how does a person like Ligotti manage to be such a prolific writer in such a state? I think Splintering Bone Ashes Alex might be on to something with the inverted libido.