This thing was what existed before life, before the first stars, before the big bang. It was the emptiness before the universe, and the emptiness that would follow.
At this stage of the game, I don__ have the time for patience and tolerance. Ten years ago, even five years ago, I would have listened to people ask their questions, explained to them, mollified them. No more. That time is past. Now, as Norman Mailer said in Naked and the Dead, __ hate everything which is not in myself._ If it doesn__ have a direct bearing on what I__ advocating, if it doesn__ augment or stimulate my life and thinking, I don__ want to hear it. It has to add something to my life. There__ no more time for explaining and being ecumenical anymore. No more time. That__ a characteristic I share with the new generation of Satanists, which might best be termed, and has labeled itself in many ways, an __pocalypse culture._ Not that they believe in the biblical Apocalypse__he ultimate war between good and evil. Quite the contrary. But that there is an urgency, a need to get on with things and stop wailing and if it ends tomorrow, at least we__l know we__e lived today. It__ a __iddle while Rome burns_ philosophy. It__ the Satanic philosophy. If the generation born in the 50__ grew up in the shadow of The Bomb and had to assimilate the possibility of imminent self destruction of the entire planet at any time, those born in the 60__ have had to reconcile the inevitability of our own destruction, not through the bomb but through mindless, uncontrolled overpopulation. And somehow resolve in themselves, looking at what history has taught us, that no amount of yelling, protesting, placard waving, marching, wailing__r even more constructive avenues like running for government office or trying to write books to wake people up__s going to do a damn bit of good. The majority of humans have an inborn death wish__hey want to destroy themselves and everything beautiful. To finally realize that we__e living in a world after the zenith of creativity, and that we can see so clearly the mechanics of our own destruction, is a terrible realization. Most people can__ face it. They__ rather retreat to the comfort of New Age mysticism. That__ all right. All we want, those few of us who have the strength to realize what__ going on, is the freedom to create and entertain and share with each other, to preserve and cherish what we can while we can, and to build our own little citadels away from the insensitivity of the rest of the world.
The Secret Life of a Satanist: The Authorized Biography of Anton LaVey
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At this stage of the game, I don__ have the time for patience and tolerance. Ten years ago, even five years ago, I would have listened to people ask their questions, explained to them, mollified them. No more. That time is past. Now, as Norman Mailer said in Naked and the Dead, __ hate everything which is not in myself._ If it doesn__ have a direct bearing on what I__ advocating, if it doesn__ augment or stimulate my life and thinking, I don__ want to hear it. It has to add something to my life. There__ no more time for explaining and being ecumenical anymore. No more time. That__ a characteristic I share with the new generation of Satanists, which might best be termed, and has labeled itself in many ways, an __pocalypse culture._ Not that they believe in the biblical Apocalypse__he ultimate war between good and evil. Quite the contrary. But that there is an urgency, a need to get on with things and stop wailing and if it ends tomorrow, at least we__l know we__e lived today. It__ a __iddle while Rome burns_ philosophy. It__ the Satanic philosophy. If the generation born in the 50__ grew up in the shadow of The Bomb and had to assimilate the possibility of imminent self destruction of the entire planet at any time, those born in the 60__ have had to reconcile the inevitability of our own destruction, not through the bomb but through mindless, uncontrolled overpopulation. And somehow resolve in themselves, looking at what history has taught us, that no amount of yelling, protesting, placard waving, marching, wailing__r even more constructive avenues like running for government office or trying to write books to wake people up__s going to do a damn bit of good. The majority of humans have an inborn death wish__hey want to destroy themselves and everything beautiful. To finally realize that we__e living in a world after the zenith of creativity, and that we can see so clearly the mechanics of our own destruction, is a terrible realization. Most people can__ face it. They__ rather retreat to the comfort of New Age mysticism. That__ all right. All we want, those few of us who have the strength to realize what__ going on, is the freedom to create and entertain and share with each other, to preserve and cherish what we can while we can, and to build our own little citadels away from the insensitivity of the rest of the world.
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