Save or kill?

I’m currently rereading Georges Bataille’s INNER EXPERIENCE, which I was scared to read again, because of the traumatic nature of his postulates. He’s got this kind of Roman Catholic Nietzschean thing going, where everything necessarily has to end in a bloodbath.

Mike says, “Oh, it’s just the era he was writing in. He was trying to wake people up.”

So this is the opposite of guilty-minded self-chastising reading, although not in the outcome, which always makes you feel like you need to save the world. Or kill it. Or save it. or…