Confession (I) (2020)

Gavin Lyall: Dean McCallum

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• Dean McCallum : Between your predisposition to believe force solves anything, your reverence of greed and power, your elevation of stupidity, your pathological avoidance of empathy, and your commitment to cruelty, it's easy to despise your kind. Yes, early on you accepted fairy tales and stories. But you refused to give them up. For growing faster and stronger - and infinitely more virulent - than your ability to reason was your capacity for vanity and ego. But if you want to know a secret, I'll tell you; at your core - on a level more protean than the simple cellular one, in the very invisible dust that binds you to the universe - you all know that you are NOT special. You are NOT unique. But in your refusal to accept the very worthlessness that actually makes you significant, you cling to willful ignorance. You shutter your vision, and shackle your reason, and all in the pathetic delusion that you are more special than someone else and - to prove it - your God loves only you.

• Dean McCallum : You are subject to a thousand variables and you have been given control over only one thing! The value of your existence is measured by that which cannot be known by others, or applauded by strangers, or worshiped by history.