Thread by @EaldWeald

I've written how the characteristic "Faustian dynamism" of the latter-day West came to a head in Postmodern America

Something profoundly alienating in the way that the cities morph into new entities every generation or less

No stability or permanence precludes memory, tradition

I can go to a place I knew well - 15 years ago it was an exurb with but few settlements and there were still farms there, etc

Now it is a buzzing hive of rootless humanity most or all of whom will never be known to you

In less than 1/6 of a century this huge change occurred

To the extent that it's a settlement/colony this has always been the case here, excessive mutability

This is part of the inspiration for Lynchian Surrealism (the other being the essentially American or Animistic spirit of this land as opposed to the Homeland of the West, Europa)

And it is a thing in all urban areas since the dawn of man, for that matter

But the West - America in particular - takes it to another level

Compare w Ancient Hellas, you could visit sacred grove, well, an Oracle etc and it's not changed much since the Age of the Heroes

Now I personally think this will be the future of America too when its own identity becomes more developed and differentiated from the Faustian type

But that might take 1/4 of a millennium or thereabouts to really take hold, so we're stuck with this inhospitable Postmodernity

Pre-fame BAP said back in the day:

"There will be a new America based on Pashtunwali"

And to the extent that the way of now will clearly not last forever,

I don't think this was trolling so much as prophecy of things to come

He was an enthusiast of Lynch too, after all