Uncanny - That which should not be

Consciousness makes it seem as if [1] there is something to do; [2] there is somewhere to go; [3] there is something to be; [4] there is someone to know. This is what makes consciousness the parent of all horrors, the thing that makes us try to do something, go somewhere, be something, and know someone, such as ourselves, so that we can escape our MALIGNANTLY USELESS being and think that being alive is all right rather than that which should not be.

Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror