Stranger World
We can’t be aware of everything all the time, yet we cannot lose sight of life itself.
During most totalitarian regimes, human emotions get suppressed. It’s our basic survival and not surprising but it can have an opposite effect; the death of the spirit. We’re totalized every day, atomized and isolated, some more than others. But this still stands in whatever varying degrees it manifests itself.
Society’s uncertainties appear to be the only thing that exist, or at the very least, they’re dominating the reality we see. Reality is often artificially created and this makes our discernment about life difficult. Truth is questioned, and it’s the opposite day in every way. I often wonder if people feel confused by the world they’re inhabiting? Are we in denial about the everyday absurdity we witness, whether in politics, art, or the social sphere?
So far, the 21st century is mired in various forms of nihilism and indifference. We can’t go back into the past. Each epoch has its own essence, but what happens when you’re living in an epoch (that’s unraveled before your eyes) whose essence is meaninglessness and, paradoxically, a lack of essence? We’ve stripped humans from their human-ness through cultural abnormalities, and of their responsibility. (Consider one example: the fact that one can go into a store in certain places in America and steal items with no consequence.)
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