Lars Iyer Bercakap Tentang Penulisan

 

"Some of us write because of our alienation. We have had no one to speak to, no friends, no conversations. There was no one around. Thoreau went to the woods to find himself. We went to our rooms. We went to literature, and philosophy, without knowing anything of literature and philosophy. We worked on our own.

There is something pathetic about this. Shouldn’t we have been fighting the world instead? Shouldn’t we have been ready on the barricades? But there were no barricades. There was no solidarity. We belonged to nothing, and had gone a little mad, a little reclusive, from belonging to nothing."

 Lars Iyer ialah pemikir sastera yang jarang ditemui di zaman ini: manusia digital tidak mahu mendekati orang seperti Lars Iyer kerana dia mengingatkan mereka kepada kehancuran dan kematian. Manusia digital tidak mahu diingatkan yang mereka bukan lagi manusia: mereka tidak ingin diingatkan yang mereka telah menjual kemanusiaan mereka kepada teknologi. Barangkali Lars Iyer ialah tiang obor yang menanti manusia di hujung terowong kematian.