The Quarantine Diaries — 4. The age of denial

In recent times — before everything happened — I made this promise: never to use any negation. I wanted to construct thought without using any of it because thought generates reality and it seemed to me a good thing that the generated reality was only affirmative. Positive.

This reasoning no longer makes sense, or it doesn’t make sense now.

Now we are all participating in the greatest simulation ever attempted by humanity. Attempted without even preparing or planning for it, it just happened. The simulation is pretending that everything is fine or that everything is normal. That there is a slight perturbation in the space-time continuum but it is containable, it will pass, in fact, as a perturbation, and everything will return as before.

No, not like before: everything will be better. Because we will be better, because we will have used this time to grow, to do things postponed, to cultivate interests. Forced not to work or to work remotely and therefore less or differently we will realize that our work is useless. Maybe, who knows.