Their violence is never pure, it’s always in relation to something; dominance, penance, sexual frustration, hierarchy. Even their attempts at faith are performances meant to stabilize their fragile selves.
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The alien is what they fear most, a life beyond self, beyond desire, beyond the need to mean anything at all. The horror of the alien is not in its violence, but in its indifference. The revelation that life does not require meaning to persist. Purpose without need.
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