The golden age of Humanism. “It makes me smile, but it is short-lived”, as Camus said. What comes after is the Age of War.
VIETNAM is the ultimate Rock Symbol.
Man always warred, now covert, then in a glorious theatre of honor - now for his gods, then for his family, and all the while man wars for wisdom and truth. No creature on Earth has ever killed so many othero of its fellow, and all of it in the name of truth. We can say that in general man does not seek to survive but to kill. Woman is different.
Man is expandable, finds his honor in showing just how expendable he considers himself to be, if it is either him or truth, verity, victory. It does not matter if he spills his own life or that of his subservients. As long as verity and victory is involved, man is not critical of his own sacrifice. The etymological roots of “Man”, the Higher Mind, betray our true self-valuing. We are not here to live our lives. As a human, to live is not to preserve life. Our lives become livable when we are engaged in a majestic struggle. We can raise our children with pride when we fight.
We must fight because of language. THis devilish practice has attached us all to the idea that there is a world that we all see. As a consequence, we fight over it - on principle.
Nature = differentiation – language = homogenization. Language wars with nature, as nature has always warred with some earlier, ‘less uprooted’ form of itself.
We emerge from the Age of Tyranny.
All of the age of Tyranny was a way to arrive at the means for true battle.
Iran, Russia, -
Shadows on the wall…
what wall?
The clouds gather a falcon. The rising sun breaks through, its eye, increasing. Until there is only eye, no more falcon.
The Eye is at war -
Two eyes to see reality -
vision is a cold war. Dimensionality is struggle.
The highest state of war is fresh peace. The ultimate slaying and the ultimate provocation.
From hereon, war goes in the deep, and broods, and destroys from the inside, until the strong become agitated and begin to provoke on the outside.
We must fight because of language=we learned language to understand what to fight for
In a sense yes, but only by understanding did these reasons come about.
Language is connected to ‘remote recognition’. All wars are about such matters, soldiers fight for what they can not see, usually. They fight because they’re told some upsetting stuff, and their imagination (the brewery of language and instinct, let’s call it that for a second) goes at it and before you know it they ‘know’ why they go to war. But it doesn’t need to have any basis in physical reality, only in the word.
Come into a thread expecting mermaid porn, leave with a Bon Jovi song stuck in my head. Worst thread ever.
Aim high and hit the mark. ouch uch
Actually, i meant more of like, the Planet of the apes stuff, where wars cannot be ordered by alpha males, except by the herd following behind, faithfully to very early versions of drum beat.
In this world, the don’t shoot (my mouth off?) until you see the white of their eyes, is totally one for them to try to figure out. This will not work, obviously, as strategy evolves, theaters become farther removed from command, (the alpha male attaining this status mainly to compensate for his wish not to go to literal theatre,), and hence things not seen can defeat the purpose of engaging in the first place.
Here, another kind of war is raging, a war against himself, and the alpha male can not maintain this pose, since the soldiers on the field will quickly replace him, as he were suddenly to become their enemy.
Welcome to the global dark ages.
I don’t want to cause this sort of hurting.
I deleted the lyrics.
true care