“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” ~ Antonio Gramsci
Modernity…
Its demons kill.
They suffocate reality.
They deny mass suffering, in the name of mass suffrage. They advertise permanent revolution with animated graphics. They loathe unsullied wisdom and bathe naked at the altar of mediocrity. They consumes us before we make love and banish us from smoking afterwards; they turn our lover into a gorgeous Stasi snitch. They erase history, father orphans and breathe down your neck like a Soviet bureaucrat. They malnourish the soul and nourish the mob. Ultimately in every case, they destroy expression- that which matters.
All of us are equally guilty of this nightmare; though some are more equal than others. First among equals, they will be shot first. Till then I’m waiting for Godot and preserving that which matters - the good, the beautiful, and the true.
Join me.