“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.”
“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.”
Self destructive man feels completely alienated, utterly alone. He’s an outsider to the human community. He thinks to himself, I must be insane. What he fails to realize is that society, has just as he does, a vested interest in considerable losses and catastrophes. These wars, famines, floods and quakes meet well-defined needs.
Man wants chaos, in fact he’s got to have it. Depression, strife, riots, murder, all this dread, we’re irresistibly drawn to that almost orgiastic state created out of death and destruction. It’s in all of us, we reveal in it.
Sure the media tries to put a sad face on these things, painting them up as great human tragedies, but we all know the function of the media has never been to eliminate the evils of the world — no — their job is to persuade us to accept those evils and get used to living with them. The powers that be want us to be passive observers.
Hey, got a match?
And they haven’t given us any other options outside the occasional, purely symbolic participatory act of voting. You want the puppet on the right or the puppet on the left? I feel that the time has come to project my own inadequacies and dissatisfactions into the sociopolitical and scientific schemes. Let my own lack of a voice be heard.
(pours gasoline on himself and sets himself on fire)
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text from Waking Life (2001)
via Nuuro
NSF those who prefer to just float.
Official trailer for the short film by Calum Macdiarmid
The tale of a psychiatrist who delves deep into his dreams to confront his fathers religion.
We Are The Great Danger.
