To be modern is to accept that which you should refuse; to adapt to evil rather than to resist it. To be modern is to have been melted down and poured into somebody else’s mould. To be modern is to have forgotten how to remember. To be modern is to be more detached from nature, more helpless, more dependent, more wasteful, more destructive, more short-sighted than your ancestors could ever have imagined, and yet to feel proud of yourself and your era.
This is pretty much how I feel about the world at the moment...a pretty severe case of future shock... Never thought I'd live long enough to experience future shock but, here I am:(
One could be the opposite. Like Jorge Luis Borges' "Goofus Bird", who flies backward because he doesn't care where he's going, only where he's been. I am that bird.
Very fine post ..thank you Paul. * .2.points...a Daoist minister in ancient china .. pre communist China rode his horse seated backwards .When asked why he as sort of an ancient seer, having strong inner vision, rode his horsev in reverse of the order of the day...( the diametric opposite of the Talmudic kabalist Jew aleister Crowley.).the minister replied that history was devolving,..mankind was warring against the Way. the intended natural..orr Divine Order...that modernity resulted in the abnegation ,the abolition,the destruction of the human soul.The diametric opposite,..aleister Crowley,like Albert pike and Adam weishauptt,.....the 3 big Jewish freemasons all lived in error.... doing great harm....saying.."do what thou wilt is the whole of the law*...or....modern .satanism.
The abuse of human freedoms is at the epicenter of all vile reprobate utterly failed Neoliberalism. Akira Kurosawa the great Japanese film maker also adopted a Japanese version of this same anti modernist Daoism.*
I like that. Though I wonder about the usage of "modern." Modernity has been around for a long time. Question: would your poem still makes sense if it was 1907, the year that Picasso painted Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (arguably the first totally "modern" painting)?
This is very good! Thank you for saying this, Paul.
This is pretty much how I feel about the world at the moment...a pretty severe case of future shock... Never thought I'd live long enough to experience future shock but, here I am:(
I already felt like that when I was young! As if I'd been born into the wrong era.
Well written and meaningful. Thank you for that.
One could be the opposite. Like Jorge Luis Borges' "Goofus Bird", who flies backward because he doesn't care where he's going, only where he's been. I am that bird.
Bingo, bango, bongo! Or as certain Newfs are fond of saying "Wicked good!"
Brings to mind a couplet I once wrote:
"at the core of our problem lies the juxtaposition
of our torrents of knowledge with our trickles of wisdom."
To be modern is to be conscious that the Homo Sapien "experiment" is a total failure. 🤔
That's not so bad after all... to be modern!
We're clearly enjoying it.
Are you?
Not only me... we all are, even if we really don't want to face it and admit it.
If we do nothing to CHANGE (which is what we are doing) it only means we enjoy it.
Very fine post ..thank you Paul. * .2.points...a Daoist minister in ancient china .. pre communist China rode his horse seated backwards .When asked why he as sort of an ancient seer, having strong inner vision, rode his horsev in reverse of the order of the day...( the diametric opposite of the Talmudic kabalist Jew aleister Crowley.).the minister replied that history was devolving,..mankind was warring against the Way. the intended natural..orr Divine Order...that modernity resulted in the abnegation ,the abolition,the destruction of the human soul.The diametric opposite,..aleister Crowley,like Albert pike and Adam weishauptt,.....the 3 big Jewish freemasons all lived in error.... doing great harm....saying.."do what thou wilt is the whole of the law*...or....modern .satanism.
The abuse of human freedoms is at the epicenter of all vile reprobate utterly failed Neoliberalism. Akira Kurosawa the great Japanese film maker also adopted a Japanese version of this same anti modernist Daoism.*
Modern means we don't know what it is. So like a bird flying towards a window, we should probably try to avoid it as much as we can.
Modern is what those who are afraid to be different aspire to being. Sure, some modern things are useful and advantageous, but hardly all.
I like that. Though I wonder about the usage of "modern." Modernity has been around for a long time. Question: would your poem still makes sense if it was 1907, the year that Picasso painted Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (arguably the first totally "modern" painting)?