Originally Posted by
joplinpicasso
This is all extremely interesting considering his statement that "pessimism is a dead end." I'm with him there, for practical and emotional reasons, so I don't see the culminating message of BW as negative necessarily, just a stark realism about the negative aspects of The Physical World - it's not in your head, it's not a simulation. Or rather, breaking through internal (NTAE) and external (AV) barriers to the 'real' world yields a stark picture, one that we all have to accept and deal. I don't know what I'm waiting for.