Complaint (by Kierkegaard)
“One sticks
one’s fingers into the soil to tell by the smell in what land one is:
I stick
my finger into existence – it smells of nothing. Where am I?
How came I here?
What
is this thing called the world?
What does this world mean?
Who is it that has
lured me into this thing and now leaves me there? … How did I come into the
world? Why was I not consulted?
… but thrust into the ranks as though as I had
been bought of a kidnapper, a dealer in souls? How did I obtain an interest in
this big enterprise they call reality?
Why should I have an interest in it?
Is
it not a voluntary concern?
And if I am compelled to take part in it, where is
the director?
… Whither shall I turn with my complaint?”
Kierkegaard
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