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The Universe Is Not Indifferent
I blame Communism. I blame Fascism. I blame psychotherapy.
They—and a boatload of other well-intentioned ideologies that
evolved during the mass-culture, industrialized, dehumanizing
epoch of the late 19th and early 20th centuries—all posited the
same fantasy. They all preached that human nature was perfect-
ible and that, thereby, evil could be overcome.
It can’t.
When you and I set out to create anything—art, commerce, sci-
ence, love—or to advance in the direction of a higher, nobler
version of ourselves, we uncork from the universe, ineluctably,
an equal and opposite reaction.
That reaction is Resistance. Resistance is an active, intelligent,
protean, malign force—tireless, relentless, and inextinguish-
able—whose sole object is to stop us from becoming our best
selves and from achieving our higher goals.
The universe is not indifferent. It is
actively hostile.
