I don’t understand how people can read all the way through articles like this and think that the human experience is somehow overall worth it, hedonically speaking. When you’re being tortured and abused, what’s the point in ever hoping for escape if all you have to look forward to is a lifetime of mental health issues and never getting your life back, all while knowing that the world is always filled with people who have it even worse than you and abusers who live long, happy lives filled with praise and without a shred of guilt because of, not in spite of, what they do to their victims?
Like, we spend our whole lives being unhappy over minor things and happy over similarly minor things. And maybe most people manage to stay in the black, but then there are so many Sufferring Georg’s in the world with no positive counterpart.
The road to paradise lies through Hell, WW, and our armored convoy must continue to press on until victory is achieved, scavenging what we can as we go.