Hope is that which Christianity gave the world, even if you think it bunk.
European primitives before conversion struggled w/just this: a dark vision of a doomed world. The monsters would encircle them eventually, they thought. In the end, the dragon would come & slay them all.
European primitives before conversion struggled w/just this: a dark vision of a doomed world. The monsters would encircle them eventually, they thought. In the end, the dragon would come & slay them all.
The therapeutic and distractive use of technology in our time are designed to keep such visions at bay.
Such myths would inevitably return except for the fact that our masters today have isolated us, and told us a different lie: like Sisyphus in reverse we must keep entertaining and pleasuring ourselves, over and over, with small delights, ultimately alone.
More here: americanmind.org/salvo/the-stre…
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