"I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without any troubles and obsessions, laughing senselessly from morning to night. Although I long for luminous ecstacies, I wouldn't ask for any, because I know they are followed by great depressions. I would like a shower of warm light to fall from me, transfiguring the entire world, an unecstatic burnst of light perserving the calm of luminous eternity. Far from the concentrations of ecstacy, it would be all graceful lightness and smiling warmth. The entire world should float in this dream of light, in this tgransparent and unreal state of delight. Obstacles and matter, form and limits would cease to exist. Then let me die of light in such a landscape." E.M. Cioran, "On The Heights of Despair."
Light for Cioran? "The premonition of madness is complicated by the dread of lucidity in madness, the dread of the moments of return and reunion, when the intuition of disaster is so painful that it almost provokes a greater madness." Let's hope that some in this current madness have the ability to be lucid, light-filled, happy--turning dread into delight.
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NYT keeps Friedman behind the "select wall," so I will have to wait for a few passages to surface, which usually doesn't take long. I'll just say for now that I love flat-earthers. You have to admire their spunk.
Here is a passage from David Sirota several days ago:
"At this same conference, we see images of New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman laughing it up with Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf. That's right, the columnist who piously champions his supposed commitment to spreading democracy is happily, publicly hamming it up with a brutal central Asian dictator. Ah yes, because it's all just so goddamned hilarious to a New York Times columnist who can sit back in his 12,000 square foot Bethesda mansion, count his $2 billion family fortune, tell the world how much he really truly cares about freedom, push American soldiers into the Baghdad shooting gallery, advocate destructive trade policies that he brags about not having even read, and blaming Americans whose economic lives have been decimated by those trade policies for not better educating themselves. It's all just so goddamned funny for Tom Friedman, because he gets to do all that, yet still also gets to ham it up every few weeks on national television with Tim Russert, and gets to be on stage with his good friend Bill Clinton and pretend to be serious."
Sirota knows how to turn dread into delight. He is brimming with happiness.
Musharraf on the Daily Show . . . I think the world is losing it's grip. He's promoting a book that contains information he won't answer in a press conference and which discloses information that makes this administration even more bumbling. And he's our ally . . . you know a friend of the Republicans who are so big on border security . . . yea, Musharraf, he's a big one on border security. I'm drinking tequilla right now, it's makign everything better.
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