00000 Letters from the Editors

Once again we're back with another issue of Digital Darkness. It's times like this that I get the chance to reflect on just what I'm doing here. Every time I start another issue of Digital Darkness I get introspective (not to mention a little overwhelmed... self-publishing is a big job). But everything starts with the first step, and this intro is that first step, though not everything really needs a beginning. As Bertrand Russel said, "The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination." I think he was on to something. He was talking about the existence of God (or lack thereof), but that statement can be stretched to cover most of life. However, everything must have an end. I have an easier time imagining time extending on to infinity then it going back into infinity, but for this very reason I'm starting to think that there was no beginning to our world, to the things contained in it, but there will be an end.

The only reason I'm so sure about this is that everything good that I know has come to an end. Everything that has ever made me happy has come to an end. I can scarcely remember the beginning of many of the things that made me happy, but I can remember the end of each and every one. From my parents moving, to the break up of a perfect relationship, everything ends. Yet the pain keeps going. I can not recall a single release from the life filling pain.

So what does this mean? I actually have a point here. Digital Darkness will end eventually. Putting out this zine makes me happy, even though I never hear anything about it from my readers, I never gain anything from the self-defacing action of publishing Digital Darkness, yet this publication grants me a temporarily reprieve from real life. Therefore it will end...

This issue is about the end, about how everything will always end. It's about the sadness that inevitably comes from the end.

Well, in an attempt to sort of counterbalance the gloominess of Pat (Cheer up, Pat!), I'd like to throw out a few warming comments.

We at breakdown.org believe in the power of art. I really don't know where I personally picked up the love of art, but I have to say that watching someone else create, or to create myself, makes me feel more human. Destroy! Destroy! Always destroy! We hear the media, the schools, the pundits cry out and lament the destruction of society as we know it. Bullshit. There are good people out there, people like you, who enjoy creation and perhaps even creating. At the risk of getting a little religious (which I'm not), if you enjoy creation, in my opinion you are of the mindset to enjoy Creation.

I don't know how long the E-zine will last as much as Pat. It is a huge demand on our time, after all. But I love it. I've been with it since the beginning, and I love it. I can't explain how much I love making ideas into (semi)tangible things. Maybe it's a God complex. But it is incredibly addictive. I wouldn't give it up for the world. So as long as I can make time for it.

Anyway, I'll let you off to read the magazine. Enjoy!