Eric Eng’s Reviews > Notes from Underground > Status Update

Angry little man rants about his 20s and proceeds to get shoved in a bar. Becomes so petty about the lack of acknowledgement that he stalks the man who shoved him so that he can bump shoulders with him in the street which doesn’t do much. However, this is somehow a triumphant win for him and as he sees it, he is now on an equal social footing as the other man.

For if wanting someday gets completely in cahoots with reason, then essentially we shall be reasoning and not wanting, because it really is impossible, for example, while preserving reason, to want senselessness and thus knowingly go against reason and wish yourself harm.

One’s own free and voluntary wanting, one’s own caprice, however wild, one’s own fancy, though chafed sometimes to the point of madness-all this is that same most profitable profit, the omitted one, which does not fit into any classification, and because of which all systems and theories are constantly blown to the devil.

Man really is stupid, phenomenally stupid. That is, he’s by no means stupid, but rather he’s so ungrateful what it would be hard to don’t the likes of him.