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OftenBen  ·  3533 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What is the Dark and How Do We Push It Back?

In a very general sense, it's the present day manifestation of whatever awaits after the heat-death of the universe.

To name a few personal specifics:

It is the wee small hours spent alone in quiet desperation and sorrow.

It is the impulse to spin the wheel in the middle of a fast and crowded freeway.

It is all the scars built up on a heart that repeatedly cried out for compassion and found indifference and cruelty instead.

It is the little voice in my head that assures me the world would be better off without me.

It is the urge to fight darkness with exogenous chemicals. (Is recursion okay?)

It is the lack of nuance that turns ostensibly peaceful ideologies into the worse forms of violence and oppression.