I Go Mad and Interview The Catepillar of Foaming Grace

Thanks so much for doing this.

Just make it quick.

I hear people say that they drink in order to numb themselves...but I drink in order to feel something. Explain.

Other people are lying.

Thanks. Before I became an atheist I prayed on a regular basis. Daily. Prayer, for me, was terrifying. I understood this terror to the physical manifestation of faith. Was it?

No. Silence is the physical manifestation of faith. This feeling of terror was probably a good thing, it meant you had some sense of what was happening...but it also meant that you had no faith.

So what's the correct response to the presence of god?

The opposite of drinking: nothing at all. Do you recoil at the sight of a doorknob?

I guess not. But what are you saying?

That the familiar is sacred. That nothing is more familiar than god. That god creates, creation is intimacy and...well, fuck it. I'm all out of cryptic nonsense.

One final question: Do humans have a natural predator? Is it possible that we are the only species without one?

Hmm...Koala bears? Does anything prey on Koala bears? They're just so cute, it's hard to imagine anything attacking them. And do you really think you're free of predation? Foucault was right: once the individual is known, the individual is controlled. Humanity, without even knowing it, has already yielded to nature's most effective predator: information. But don't worry, thanks to modern man's obsession with efficiency, your extinction is still some ways off...being known is the slowest of poisons.