The compulsion to anarchy and nihilism is fiercest among insipid, vacant creatures cravenly desperate to rise to the top and, so, vindicate their existence.
Yet the only "top" they can conceive of, from the depths of their vacuity, barely reaches the summit of the dust beneath our feet.And so their frenzied scramble is to drag everything down to the dust and, from the top of that heap of nothingness, bellow their triumph.
It is a very old sickness. Few have captured it more brilliantly than John Milton: "Better to reign in Hell than...."
