When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- When feelings dry up and apathy grows, people may turn to violence just to feel contact.
- In plain terms
- If you cannot feel, you might use violence to touch someone.
- What can you take from it?
- Lack of feeling can lead to violent attempts to connect.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What happens when you feel numb?
- Do you need touch to feel real?
Another view
Not all people turn to violence when numb; some isolate.
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