WWW: Ripping Off King Arthur #237 -- A Suicide in Destiny City (Part Twenty)

[Adrian J. McClure]

On Sunday, April 5, 2015 at 11:16:32 PM UTC-4, Andrew Perron wrote:
> On 4/5/2015 8:24 PM, Scott Eiler wrote:
> > On 4/5/2015 11:39 AM, Arthur Spitzer wrote:
> >> Life outside the Shadows...
> >>
> >> http://www.rippingoffkingarthur.com/a-suicide-in-destiny-city-index/a-suicide-in-destiny-city-part-twenty/
> >
> > That explains as well as anything I've read about the attraction of suicide
> > when your world is about as good as it'll ever get.
> 
> See, I think the actual explanation is bullshit, but of course it is - it's 
> being written by someone who's deeply depressed, whose inner pain doesn't 
> match a world that everyone's telling him is perfect. It's not much of a 
> utopia if it leaves people like that out, after all.
> 
> Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, his personal world could get *much* better.

I always saw this story as about how broad-strokes philosophies for how to Make the World Better couldn't necessarily deal with the messy personal issues that people have.

Adrian (fascinated by utopias but often annoyed by utopians)