I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently,
assumed it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find
satisfying reasons for this assumption .... The philosopher who finds
no meaning in the world is not concerned exclusively with a problem in pure
metaphysics; he is also concerned to prove there is no valid reason why he
personally should not do as he wants to do.... For myself, as no doubt
for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially
an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneously
liberation from an certain political and economic system and liberation from
a certain system of morality.
We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom."
HUXLEY, Aldous, "Confessions of
a Professed Atheist". Report: Perspective on the News, vol. 3
(June 1966), p. 19. From an article by Helming, "An interview with
God."
