THE RELIGION NOTHING
The search of
modern man, or rather ego, ends with a world of almost complete
abstraction –
a system of
images and
language treated like symbols which all represent this Nothing. They
all rest
upon the belief in Nothing behind them: Reality becomes a kind of
completely
coded Universe which in-itself is immersed in acting and symbolism.
“Nothing”
is ego’s
God so to speak. Ego’s replication of the Universe in a system of
image-like
negative “proofs” becomes a substitute for truth – or in other words
the
‘actual’ consistency of the Universe. The camouflaged belief in Nothing
as a
meaningful concept assimilates a strange hypnotic faith: Nothing is
seen as
some sort of existing entity.
So I told my good friend Rafael Horzon who insisted in publishing it, that really, the book and its possible consequences is a bad idea.
