The Resignation: Thoughts on Shared Psychosis and Liberation

Resignation happens when we submit to a new authority but suppress the symbol of that submission, claiming to be liberated.

This is another character for you to consume.

Some of you will find me a bit insane, full of myself, maybe a bit schizo, blind to my own ignorance…and to those I say, good, you should. Run with that thought. Destroy the small symbol of me by maintaining your idea of me and what that represents for you.

What I’m trying to say is…this is not going to be a place of neatly packaged conclusions or universal truths. If anything, I wish to avoid those conclusions…forever. I’ll let other people delve into that more definitive, conclusion-driven style. Personally, I find it limiting — it demands a kind of certainty I don’t naturally gravitate toward. Some people excel at that; their minds are wired to make everything concise and wrapped up, but for me, it feels disingenuous. I need ambiguity for the sake of my own sanity.

“Such would be the successive phases of the image:

it is the reflection of a profound reality; it masks and denatures a profound reality; it masks the absence of a profound reality; it has no relation to any reality whatsoever…