Antinatalism and Depression CXI: Zapffe's Panic
Channel: Anekantavad
Date: 27/10/2012

Is existential horror an insurmountable barrier?

Some people don't think so.

Stephen King's "Sometimes They Come Back" http://loloyd.homeip.net/ebooks1/Stephen%20King%20(Bibliography)/1970's/1977/Short%20Stories/Stephen%20King%20-%20Night%20Shift%20-%20Sometimes%20They%20Come%20Back.pdf
'Look, Vinnie, he wet himself!' Lawson cried out. The tone was right, but the expression on his face was one of horror - the expression of a puppet that has come to life only to find itself on strings.

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." - HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"