SACRIFICE

The Promethean ethos does not flinch from suffering but sublimates it, transfiguring torment into testimony. Prometheus bound is not a victim, but a martyr to futurity. The suffering he endures is not merely punitive, it serves to consecrate. To give the fire is to give oneself to be consumed by it. Sacrifice is the dark underside of forethought, the cost of that precognitively clairvoyant rebellion which sees the price before it is paid – and still pays it.