“There’s a very important reason why I keep pointing at this thing like a broken compass; it is a wellspring of infinitely self-inventing agonies. Swarming froths of injurious thinkings and feelings, emerging like blood from a gash in the core of our being. Which is the injury of mistaking something absent, such as relation or cause, as present. So we see absences as presences, and our technologies and media encourage this. Then, we begin to ‘investigate’ these lethal ghosts and figments; we authorize their ‘existence’, and pretend them from nothing into the very figures we supposed of the shadows we were compelled by. Watch closely, and when you discover this pivot, learn its ways and habits in your mind and cultures. Invert them, and be free of relating with ‘that which is not, yet must so be, nonetheless’.”

— an anonymous informant