10-08-2023, 12:46 AM
There's nothing wrong with the world. Is it wrong for serial killers to kill people? No, that's what they do. People are animals. You're as likely to be killed by a human as you are to be mauled by a bear or bit by a venomous snake or have an accident with one of our machines or tools. The idea that there is something wrong with the world is based in a sense of there being a right way the world should be.
When you walk down the road, you see grass and trees and flowers, birds and squirrels and dogs and Narcissuses. The human animal is a Narcissus, an animal that has a sophisticated Symbol appreciation system as a form of intelligence that differs from the other forms of life I mentioned that you see when you walk down the road. Though there are differences between Narcissuses, as there are between the other members of species, they all are conditioned by cause and effect.
Do you feel embarrassed in front of blades of grass or feel harassed by a squirrel standing in the woods behind your house? I used to feel embarrassed in front of dogs, now I don't.
These are all lifeforms carrying out their natural cause and effect mechanics. There's no reason to experience a Narcissus in any more heightened emotional or conceptional sense than a bird or a dog. That doesn't mean you should go up to a Narcissus and start stomping him anymore than you would a dog.
You see, the body-mind-environment is the Sphinx, some folks call it a Lamassu, I call it a Sphinx, and the living tender self, which is the sense of a spark of life in each assumed organism is in the cradle of the Sphinx. We are all a child and an animal, an innocent child and a pet. We take care of our children and pets, that doesn't mean we have to stress over their barking.
The Art Sense cultivated by Society has a thing called Taste. Decadence is a Taste in a Style of Art. The two Aspects of Decadence I was referring to were the use of Signs instead of Symbols and the mixture of different Cultures and Styles in a sense that feels pinned together.
Art is the gloss through which Narcissus sees the world. Leisure allows for these categories. Anyone who spends as much time analyzing or defending their culture as they do living it, is by definition a Leisurely Person.
No one ever told me to hit the corner, because it was evident that I never did any work or spent much time in class. It was the uppity kids who were told to hit the corner. I spent my time exploring the school and surrounding area. I stole leisure time from all around me, and gleefully bit the many hands that fed me.
My thesis, therefore, is an Art thesis, not a Social one. Decadence was Transfigured by T. S. Eliot and the Modern Poetry, taking what had appeared a hodgepodge of wreckage and made things commonplace and meaningful for the zeitgeist. The World Wars, the studies in Physics, the avant-garde, the multiculture, Psychotherapy and its tropes. Anthropology reorganized the Rites of Cults, forming from mysterious magic a Codified Magick, based on the new paradigms of Earthly tropology. Everything from madness and dreams and the so-called content of the unconscious was labelled and set to order and utilization. The misty and mysterious Romantic went through Decadence to Modernity to what someone called a few years ago Liquid Modernity. We can talk about Bukowski in the same breath as the most classical and polished so-called Classical Poets, and tribal rituals and Order Magick, and we can take photos and sounds of anything and add it to anything. And still have a sense of Decadence as we still have a sense of right and wrong when it comes to the world and serial killers.
Fandom and cosplay are part of this so-called Decadence. Documentary Culture, where people watch skillfully made Videos and Documentaries and use them as Bibles for how to behave so that you can make Videos and have Documentaries made about you. This goes for Super Heroes, Rock Stars and Civil Rights Leaders. Play the part, be a walking Billboard.
These things could be called Decadence in an artistic sense. And people with Leisure will see this as evidence of a Decadent Culture.
I don't bother writing books most of the time now, except on here. I have written my section of a book for the day.
When you walk down the road, you see grass and trees and flowers, birds and squirrels and dogs and Narcissuses. The human animal is a Narcissus, an animal that has a sophisticated Symbol appreciation system as a form of intelligence that differs from the other forms of life I mentioned that you see when you walk down the road. Though there are differences between Narcissuses, as there are between the other members of species, they all are conditioned by cause and effect.
Do you feel embarrassed in front of blades of grass or feel harassed by a squirrel standing in the woods behind your house? I used to feel embarrassed in front of dogs, now I don't.
These are all lifeforms carrying out their natural cause and effect mechanics. There's no reason to experience a Narcissus in any more heightened emotional or conceptional sense than a bird or a dog. That doesn't mean you should go up to a Narcissus and start stomping him anymore than you would a dog.
You see, the body-mind-environment is the Sphinx, some folks call it a Lamassu, I call it a Sphinx, and the living tender self, which is the sense of a spark of life in each assumed organism is in the cradle of the Sphinx. We are all a child and an animal, an innocent child and a pet. We take care of our children and pets, that doesn't mean we have to stress over their barking.
The Art Sense cultivated by Society has a thing called Taste. Decadence is a Taste in a Style of Art. The two Aspects of Decadence I was referring to were the use of Signs instead of Symbols and the mixture of different Cultures and Styles in a sense that feels pinned together.
Art is the gloss through which Narcissus sees the world. Leisure allows for these categories. Anyone who spends as much time analyzing or defending their culture as they do living it, is by definition a Leisurely Person.
No one ever told me to hit the corner, because it was evident that I never did any work or spent much time in class. It was the uppity kids who were told to hit the corner. I spent my time exploring the school and surrounding area. I stole leisure time from all around me, and gleefully bit the many hands that fed me.
My thesis, therefore, is an Art thesis, not a Social one. Decadence was Transfigured by T. S. Eliot and the Modern Poetry, taking what had appeared a hodgepodge of wreckage and made things commonplace and meaningful for the zeitgeist. The World Wars, the studies in Physics, the avant-garde, the multiculture, Psychotherapy and its tropes. Anthropology reorganized the Rites of Cults, forming from mysterious magic a Codified Magick, based on the new paradigms of Earthly tropology. Everything from madness and dreams and the so-called content of the unconscious was labelled and set to order and utilization. The misty and mysterious Romantic went through Decadence to Modernity to what someone called a few years ago Liquid Modernity. We can talk about Bukowski in the same breath as the most classical and polished so-called Classical Poets, and tribal rituals and Order Magick, and we can take photos and sounds of anything and add it to anything. And still have a sense of Decadence as we still have a sense of right and wrong when it comes to the world and serial killers.
Fandom and cosplay are part of this so-called Decadence. Documentary Culture, where people watch skillfully made Videos and Documentaries and use them as Bibles for how to behave so that you can make Videos and have Documentaries made about you. This goes for Super Heroes, Rock Stars and Civil Rights Leaders. Play the part, be a walking Billboard.
These things could be called Decadence in an artistic sense. And people with Leisure will see this as evidence of a Decadent Culture.
I don't bother writing books most of the time now, except on here. I have written my section of a book for the day.