Jeff Russell

I'm always very surprised when people say things like "you can always do better" as if it's an encouragement. Isn't it the same as saying "you're never good enough?" How depressing, to always be a failure by definition, whether one tries one's best or not! If that's the case, why try at all?

Today's MM capsule review is fitting, since I also get the same feeling from Greer's Shoggoth Concerto, Nyogotha Variations, and Hall of Homeless Gods, when he says things like "the universe doesn't have eyes." Greer seems to find encouragement in it, though it reads like an inducement to suicide to me: if nobody cares then nothing matters, and if nothing matters, why try?

Maybe that's why I find the Mysteries compelling: every soul is unique and so needs a unique teaching.