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

[Andrew Perron]

On 4/6/2015 6:46 PM, Adrian J. McClure wrote:
> 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:
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>>> 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.

That, too. <3 It's good.

> Adrian (fascinated by utopias but often annoyed by utopians)

Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, same