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Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.
-Jonathan Franzen
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Depression Presents Itself As A Realism Regarding

Jonathan Franzen
Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.
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Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. but the realism is merely a mask for depression's actual essence, which is an overwhelming estrangement from humanity. the more persuaded you are of your unique access to the rottenness, the more afraid you become of engaging with the world; and the less you engage with the world, the more perfidiously happy-faced the rest of humanity seems for continuing to engage with it.
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Science seems to be at war with itself.... naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.
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When people use the term magic realism, usually they only mean 'magic' and they don't hear 'realism', whereas the way in which magic realism actually works is for the magic to be rooted in the real. it's both things. it's not just a fairytale moment. it's the surrealism that arises out of the real.
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It seems to me that if one had kept silence up to now regarding religion, people would still be submerged in the most grotesque and dangerous superstition ... regarding government, we would still be groaning under the bonds of feudal government ... regarding morals, we would still be having to learn what is virtue and what is vice. to forbid all these discussions, the only ones worthy of occupying a good mind, is to perpetuate the reign of ignorance and barbarism.
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Depression, when it's clinical, is not a metaphor. it runs in families, and it's known to respond to medication and to counseling. however truly you believe there's a sickness to existence that can never be cured, if you're depressed you will sooner or later surrender and say: i just don't want to feel bad anymore. the shift from depressive realism to tragic realism, from being immobilized by darkness to being sustained by it, thus strangely seems to require believing in the possibility of a cure.
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