What is actually happening is not escaping from reality, but escaping to reality.
What is actually happening is not escaping from reality, but escaping to reality.
―
Atrona Grizel
“Advertisement”
is the softened Western version of the term “propaganda.” Yet, at their core,
these are the same thing. Propaganda is the violent imposition of a belief
system upon the masses, often wielded by regimes to forge compliance.
Advertising, on the other hand, cloaks its message in the culture of
consumerism, seducing mass desire rather than openly enforcing doctrine. Yet
the mechanism is identical: colonization of thought. There is no significant
difference between the ideological posters of totalitarian regimes and the
advertisements of companies, for every form of advertisement is inherently
propaganda, disguised as a tamed lion.
―
Atrona Grizel
Preventing
someone’s suicide essentially hinges on this belief: convincing that person
that death is not a solution. The moment death acquires the function of being
able to “solve” things, that is precisely why self-destruction occurs. The
entire point lies here. If a person wants to distance themselves from suicide
in practical, behavioral terms, they must deeply believe not so much that life
is a solution, but that death is not one.
―
Atrona Grizel
The good parent is
the absent parent.
―
Atrona Grizel
Someone who has
not witnessed the torture rooms on the dark web has not witnessed people’s
second face, that is, their real face. The people in such rooms do not have to
be criminals; they are usually known as kind, polite individuals loved by
everyone, with families, spouses, and jobs, yet when they are alone at night,
they close the door of their room and dive into this cesspool of the internet
to satisfy their darkest fantasies—double-life creatures.
―
Atrona Grizel
My immorality
comes from being excessively moral.
―
Atrona Grizel
From the top of
the mountain, the whole city looks little.
We watch it with our eye.
This tiny dot, that’s everyone.
And we look at each other’s face.
Only we know that we are two people larger than an entire commune.
We descend into
the city, and the city swallows us.
Not us, but our bodies.
We are still watching it from that edge.
We are still dissecting it with our essence.
We wear the silence there on us like a garment, inside this noise.
They turn and
look at us.
The people of the city do not understand.
Because we are still living on the mountaintop.
They cannot bring us down from there.
Ants cannot reach us, not here.
―
Atrona Grizel
People have fun
not to remember, but to forget.
―
Atrona Grizel
A slum marked by
sincerity is superior to a villa ruled by formality.
―
Atrona Grizel
The Juche Tower
feels like a tower of resilience to me, according to the eyes that see it from
my own poetic reality. It stands tall and epic despite isolation and embargo
and shines in the darkness of the night. This image inspires me greatly.
―
Atrona Grizel
The reason for
the significant increase in “gender nonconformity” in the present age is not
that people have stopped fearing self-expression; rather, it is that this has
become a trend pursued by many. Capitalism fuels pleasure to attract the
masses, and this includes sexuality as well. As a result, sexuality is now
everywhere—to the point of excess. Such constant exposure is not natural; it is
human-made. Consequently, it shapes perception and distorts bodily identity. In
ancient times, very few spoke of “sexual freedom.” Why? Was it simply because
there was absolute oppression and slavery? No—it was because those eras and
civilizations were not founded on instant pleasures and desires. Sexuality was
private, even undiscussable, to the point of sacredness. Today, it has become a
visible, marketed product, endlessly promoted and consumed. What becomes
abundant loses its value, and what becomes “free” is abused. In this context,
people experiment with various means to experience pleasure “more deeply,” yet
such momentary satisfaction fails to fulfill them, leading to addiction.
Ultimately, they become dissatisfied with their own bodies and devise
“innovations” that blur sexual identity. The fact that such individuals reach
this state—and even embrace its values in an attempt to create a sense of
belonging—stems more from reaction to the surrounding cultural environment than
from purely self-generated choice, for this is the fashion of the 21st century.
―
Atrona Grizel
I am afraid. It
is a terrifying kind of fear because it is dangerous. A dangerous fear, because
beneath it, it secretly desires what it fears.
―
Atrona Grizel
I don’t believe I
could inflict physical pain. Even if I somehow did, how could damage done to
flesh evoke any pleasant feeling in me? Flesh is concrete, so it isn’t even
anything truly real. But I suppose I don’t need to mention taking pleasure in
causing pain in an abstract sense—I am the most ferocious intellectual sadist
ever.
―
Atrona Grizel
How do I pass
time? By watching time pass.
―
Atrona Grizel
It feels like I’m
not seeing dreams, but remembering other worlds.
―
Atrona Grizel
As long as there
is a paradise in the other world, this world will continue to remain a hell.
―
Atrona Grizel
What is seen from
the outside as a cocoon may in fact be a terrarium.
―
Atrona Grizel
Dreams are
reality, while reality is a dream.
―
Atrona Grizel
If a person lives
in accordance with nature, how can they live differently?
―
Atrona Grizel
Trying to
communicate with humans is like sending signals from the ocean floor to the
surface that forever remain suspended in the water.
―
Atrona Grizel
To love you, I
must hate you first.
―
Atrona Grizel
If someone hated
me, I would feel loved.
―
Atrona Grizel
The saying
“Friendship requires integration” is overheard from a distance only by my sole
companion: pure coldness. Only it is not a merchant; it does not barter away a
piece of me in exchange for some side of the “customer” across from me. I
cannot be sold.
―
Atrona Grizel
Space is divine
and ethereal because it is cleansed of humans. The issue begins when humans
claim dominion over it: “naming,” “classifying,” “interpreting,” and so on. To
contaminate planets and stars with astronomy and astrology is to infect them
with humanity. There is a possibility that the Moon might be “purchased” in the
future, as if it weren’t enough that they have already gone there and defiled
it thoroughly. The very thought that this old friend of mine in the sky could
be opened to trade by humanity makes my stomach turn.
―
Atrona Grizel
Those who have
never grown weary do not know the feeling of rest that weariness brings.
―
Atrona Grizel
Nothing can be
said to someone who can no longer bear life. For this feeling exposes the
rotten foundation of existence, and there is no counterargument that can stand
against it. The only thing that can be done is not to “save” that person, but
merely to distract them, so death meets them a bit later—but it inevitably
does.
―
Atrona Grizel
Why do I not
abandon the world? Because I have an inner world. It keeps me here. Its pull is
so strong that it surpasses any attachment I feel toward human relationships. I
almost ask, in a parental way, “What would happen to it if I left?” And it is
for that reason alone that I remain. Instead of destroying myself, I created
something and replaced the reality I am disillusioned with by it. Others need
other people to keep life going, while I need only myself. Since nothing can
tear me away from what I am attached to, because what I am attached to is
myself, I become a survival mechanism that sees no reason or impulse for bodily
suicide. If I were to leave, it would be absolute, because my despair is not
acute but chronic, and that is what makes it feel natural. In other words, my
act would not be the result of a simple “emotional fluctuation” but a decision
made with absolute certainty and, thus, irreversibility.
―
Atrona Grizel
Even though a
person is not worth as much as a speck of dust, walking around with arrogance
is not, as commonly assumed, “insecurity” or “ignorance,” but rather a kind of
self-fueled defiance.
―
Atrona Grizel
The fact that
knowledge is so widespread devalues it, for the ease of access to information
only increases ignorance, not intelligence. Knowledge does not multiply or
become more “powerful” when shared; it becomes corrupted when given to those
who do not deserve it, and it becomes cheapened when given too abundantly.
―
Atrona Grizel
A person’s
reality is measured by their detachment from community.
―
Atrona Grizel
No one and
nothing can have the possibility of being “wrong.”
―
Atrona Grizel
To be within
society is to be outside thought.
― Atrona Grizel