10-08-2023, 12:17 AM
Rowens:
"Sometimes it pays to put down the books and write your own.
Is anybody interested in this thesis? The 21st Century is an even greater playground of Decadence, in the Art sense."
TranquillityBase:
"This is where I lose track of your dialogue, your "sketch". What is your thesis? That the 21st Century is the greatest playground of decadence in (recent) history? I'd say it's more than a playground. More serious than simple decadence. I haven't traveled enough to know about much beyond the U.S. of A., but I see a country descending into absolute madness. Probably it's my age; too much has changed and changed into something "strange and terrible" as Hunter Thompson would say. Souls are bleeding out all around me, or so it feels. Poetry won't save us. Maybe magic could. Is that your thesis? That magic can save us?"
I was thinking Rowan's thesis was the "write your own", instead of decadent cosplay.
But I, too, would like him to specify.
P.S. "Probably it's my age" - I'd guess, since you're mentioning Hunter S. Thompson, that it
probably is your age. Which, by the way, is probably less than the average age of those motorcycle
gang members Hunter was writing about. Personally, I think the madness level has stayed pretty much
the same for as long as I've been able to convince myself I was able to judge it. In my humble opinion
(ignoring plagues, both natural and the ones caused by anyone being able to edit DNA in their basement),
the two most probable things that will upset this equilibrium of madness are climate change and sentient AI.
And being the paradoxically cynical optimist that I am, I have great hopes that one will offset the other.
"Sometimes it pays to put down the books and write your own.
Is anybody interested in this thesis? The 21st Century is an even greater playground of Decadence, in the Art sense."
TranquillityBase:
"This is where I lose track of your dialogue, your "sketch". What is your thesis? That the 21st Century is the greatest playground of decadence in (recent) history? I'd say it's more than a playground. More serious than simple decadence. I haven't traveled enough to know about much beyond the U.S. of A., but I see a country descending into absolute madness. Probably it's my age; too much has changed and changed into something "strange and terrible" as Hunter Thompson would say. Souls are bleeding out all around me, or so it feels. Poetry won't save us. Maybe magic could. Is that your thesis? That magic can save us?"
I was thinking Rowan's thesis was the "write your own", instead of decadent cosplay.
But I, too, would like him to specify.
P.S. "Probably it's my age" - I'd guess, since you're mentioning Hunter S. Thompson, that it
probably is your age. Which, by the way, is probably less than the average age of those motorcycle
gang members Hunter was writing about. Personally, I think the madness level has stayed pretty much
the same for as long as I've been able to convince myself I was able to judge it. In my humble opinion
(ignoring plagues, both natural and the ones caused by anyone being able to edit DNA in their basement),
the two most probable things that will upset this equilibrium of madness are climate change and sentient AI.
And being the paradoxically cynical optimist that I am, I have great hopes that one will offset the other.
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions