Against the Violent Obscurity: A Manifesto for Re-Centering Reality

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

There are men who dream of Mars while the earth burns.
There are minds obsessed with darkness not as a poetic space of mystery, but as a territory to invade.
There are figures — Elon Musk, among others — who throw their gaze into the unknown not to contemplate it, but to conquer it, to penetrate it, to extract from it a simulacrum of immortality.

But the obscure is not theirs to take.
And the violence they inflict on it exposes their blindness.

The Pathology of Obsession

Let’s be clear: this is not curiosity.
This is a colonial impulse dressed in tech jargon.
This is not expansion — it is evacuation: of the real, of the human, of the possible.

To obsess over the “beyond” while ignoring the immediate, to project one’s desire into galaxies while consuming the soil beneath your feet — this is not genius. It is sick hunger.
And it comes from a deep terror of simply coexisting with what is already here.

Musk does not look into the cosmos with awe. He looks with greed.
And greed directed toward the unknown becomes anti-matter — not only useless, but hostile to life.

The Ontology of the Obscure: Not for Conquest, But for Coexistence

The obscure is not a void to be filled.
It is a limit that protects meaning.
It is the place where sense fails, and where being begins.

To throw rockets into the obscure is to attempt to colonize the unnamable.
To try to own darkness is to destroy its function — to safeguard the impossibility of total control.

The obscure is sacred because it cannot be consumed.
And anything that attempts to consume it becomes grotesque.

A New Ethics of Attention

We do not need to know what happens on other planets.
We need to learn how to exist — here, now, without domination.

We must not seek to escape this world, but to inhabit it differently.
Not through exploitation, not through saturation, not through conquest — but through mutual presence.

There is no glory in discovery if the act itself is violent.
There is no future in a gaze that forgets the soil beneath its feet.

Let us not fall for the mythology of progress.
Let us cultivate the discipline of presence.

Against the Masculine Obsession with Expansion

This is not just about technology. It is about a structure of desire.
A desire to expand, to possess, to rename — always beyond, never within.
A refusal to meet the real with tenderness.

The masculine subject in crisis seeks to dominate obscurity because he cannot sit with his own opacity.

He multiplies satellites, startups, space stations — but cannot make peace with the unknown inside himself.
So he projects. He penetrates. He builds rockets and platforms and narratives — all of them hollow.

And in doing so, he drags us all into his satiated nihilism.

The Urgency of Re-Centering Reality

We need to return.
To the intimate. To the tangible. To the slow and the sensuous.
To the soil. To each other.
To an existence that does not consume, but coexists.

We must protect what cannot be known.
We must refuse to perform knowledge.
We must meet the real — not with domination, but with presence.

The obscure does not need to be conquered.
It needs to be left alone — so that we might learn to live again.