Despair

We have to hate and we have to despair. We have to live the horror. Keep our minds on the worst.

 

Don’t let them cheer us up. Don’t let them bring us on side. Don’t smile! Don’t laugh with them. Don’t share their good cheer. Make sure!

 

They want to take our despair from us. They want to free us from our despair. We need to hold onto it.

They don’t want us to hate. But we have to hate!

 

Despair is an invitation, postgraduates. A calling. Even the highest calling. It says: Turn your eyes from all this. Turn your attention from all this. Awaken yourself from all this. You are not part of the demonic realm.

 

They’ll want to free you from your despair, postgraduates. But your despair is the despair of philosophy, postgraduates! It belongs to philosophy! It’s what enables philosophy!

Hope … is not for you, postgraduates. And especially sham hope … Organisational Management hope.

Your lives … will not be long. Your days will probably be painful. But they will at least be lives of integrity, so long as you’re not seduced by the Organisational Management campus.