Anti Natalism | Anti Natalist News # 1 - Security is a myth @antinatalism1 | Uploaded April 2021 | Updated October 2024, 4 minutes ago.
Two news stories. Two wonderful women who were struck by fatal accidents from a loose gate to a tree falling down on a wire. A real news reminder of the gamble that all parents make when they pro create. There is simply no way to anticipate the fateful dominos that will come your way in life when you come to this planet as a living being. There is no way for parents to de-risk life. Anytime, Anywhere, Anyone.
Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death is a perfect story for those who think that if you do things just right and hide in your castle you will be safe. The truth is anybody can be touched by tragedy, violence, and death anywhere and at any time. There are a thousand ways it can strike but what is certain is that when you are born into this existence you have entered into a game of risk. All of life is a gamble. Security is an illusion. What is important is to relate to the victims and understand that Life itself is inherently dangerous. Life itself is a gamble and no parent can really promise security to their child.
As Helen Keller said:
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
"Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
“When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.” - Euripides
Instead when a good man or woman is hurt there are many who (to protect their fragile illusion of security) will attack and blame the good man or woman as deserving of their tragedy. This is clearly the case with those xenophobes blaming and shaming Louisa Jespersen for traveling to Morocco. They attack her as if hiding behind their Walls in the West they will somehow escape terror and suffering that all life is subject to.
"We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it."
Tennessee Williams
"Verily this is the very crown of my misfortunes, that men’s
opinions for the most part look not to real merit, but to
the event; and only recognize foresight where Fortune has
crowned the issue with her approval. Whereby it comes to
pass that reputation is the first of all things to abandon the
unfortunate. [...] I will just say that the final burden which misfortune heaps on her victims, is that some accusation is made against them, they are believed to have deserved all that they suffer."
Boethius
Rest in Peace Louisa, nothing can touch you now.
"O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray,
To come to me: of cureless ills thou art
The one physician. Pain lays not its touch
Upon a corpse."
Aeschylus
Antinatalism
Atomic Age
Extinction
Two news stories. Two wonderful women who were struck by fatal accidents from a loose gate to a tree falling down on a wire. A real news reminder of the gamble that all parents make when they pro create. There is simply no way to anticipate the fateful dominos that will come your way in life when you come to this planet as a living being. There is no way for parents to de-risk life. Anytime, Anywhere, Anyone.
Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death is a perfect story for those who think that if you do things just right and hide in your castle you will be safe. The truth is anybody can be touched by tragedy, violence, and death anywhere and at any time. There are a thousand ways it can strike but what is certain is that when you are born into this existence you have entered into a game of risk. All of life is a gamble. Security is an illusion. What is important is to relate to the victims and understand that Life itself is inherently dangerous. Life itself is a gamble and no parent can really promise security to their child.
As Helen Keller said:
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
"Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
“When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.” - Euripides
Instead when a good man or woman is hurt there are many who (to protect their fragile illusion of security) will attack and blame the good man or woman as deserving of their tragedy. This is clearly the case with those xenophobes blaming and shaming Louisa Jespersen for traveling to Morocco. They attack her as if hiding behind their Walls in the West they will somehow escape terror and suffering that all life is subject to.
"We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it."
Tennessee Williams
"Verily this is the very crown of my misfortunes, that men’s
opinions for the most part look not to real merit, but to
the event; and only recognize foresight where Fortune has
crowned the issue with her approval. Whereby it comes to
pass that reputation is the first of all things to abandon the
unfortunate. [...] I will just say that the final burden which misfortune heaps on her victims, is that some accusation is made against them, they are believed to have deserved all that they suffer."
Boethius
Rest in Peace Louisa, nothing can touch you now.
"O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray,
To come to me: of cureless ills thou art
The one physician. Pain lays not its touch
Upon a corpse."
Aeschylus
Antinatalism
Atomic Age
Extinction
