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“An act like this is prepared within the silence of the heart, as is a great work of art.”
-- Camus
In this extraction from Al Alvarez’s “Savage God”, we are still dealing with the idea that even the best of social theories that seek to explain and resolve suicides cannot really get at the heart of the problem, that it is too central a part of the human condition, the pain that life means for us. As he writes:
Perhaps this is why the more convincing the social theories, the more independent they seem of the material on which they are based. They are superstructures, often elegant and lovingly detailed, but built on simple misery, a terminal inner loneliness which no amount of social engineering will alleviate.
Of course, the problem is worse for some than for others, but everyone presumably has their moments of feeling crushed and abandoned, of feeling that life is a tough game they just were not built to play.
-- Camus
In this extraction from Al Alvarez’s “Savage God”, we are still dealing with the idea that even the best of social theories that seek to explain and resolve suicides cannot really get at the heart of the problem, that it is too central a part of the human condition, the pain that life means for us. As he writes:
Perhaps this is why the more convincing the social theories, the more independent they seem of the material on which they are based. They are superstructures, often elegant and lovingly detailed, but built on simple misery, a terminal inner loneliness which no amount of social engineering will alleviate.
Of course, the problem is worse for some than for others, but everyone presumably has their moments of feeling crushed and abandoned, of feeling that life is a tough game they just were not built to play.
