i always think it’s funny when people say “stop reading theory it just makes you sad”, because lol yeah, integrating into society as it exists would make you happier. but to be happy in conditions like these is pathological.

“The psychological observation of all of those uncounted, defective human beings - and defectiveness has become the norm today - this observation alone justifies us in saying that the potential of human beings is being wasted and suppressed to an unprecedented extent by institutions.”

“Whatever happiness is intermittently tolerated or granted by the existing entirety bears the marks of its own particularity. To this day, all happiness is a pledge of what has not yet been, and the belief in its imminence obstructs its becoming.”

“Happiness would be nothing short of deliverance from particularity as a general principle irreconcilable with individual human happiness here and now. Happiness would be the negation of all false happiness.”