Dont look down!

by SAMO!

Posted to Poetry and Politics on 2003-02-08 04:22:00

Parent message is 377765
Can we actually move forward from this point with out being drastic?:

Modern society due to its very structure creates this cultural vertigo. We cant move on because we are to busy looking down, at history. I think your right, reactionary movements are unsustainable and their trail leads into the past. We do have to be positive, but where are these positive acts to come from? Our culture today on the whole isn’t even a culture, its just a vacuous ‘looking’, a historical pick and mix.
Would we even know where to begin wityh ‘future’ art?

The way I see it the main question is – Why can we see no meaning in the world? This is not a defect, in my understanding, but a dangerous grasp of a certain kind of truth – the world is meaningless!!! Our pursuit of knowledge has become destructive to our culture and the individual. This is a knowledge that is subconsciously present in most individuals in modern society and which manifests itself culturally as post-modernism, and politically as the secular state. It is a way of look at things: perspectivism!

However it’s from this that tolerance springs, tolerance for difference: be it religion or culture etc. but when we do this we lose the ‘truth’, the ‘real’ world, because each ‘perspective’ isn’t valued any more than the other.

If I role a dice looking for the ‘true’ number and some one tells me which ever number I role will be true for me – the value of truth is lost – there is no true number just a bunch of numbers.

I have tried to point this out to people here; that secular/multi-cultural society devalues all the faiths/cultures involved – the idea of truth gets weakened – post-modernism comes upon us. People have seen this as me advocating some pluralistic fascist state but this is not so, it is important not to be reactionary, just because one thing is faulty it does not mean I advocate its opposite. What this phenomenon says to me is that old culture, religion, cannot be sustained – they are contradictory because their force relies on universality, which is no longer possible.

I like your Idea about working against mimetic art, like the whole thing really – positive. What I have been trying to say though, in a waffling yet sincere way is, what if this phenomenon, as I believe it to be, is just a symptom of a of the loss of meaning in society in general due to the modern era? This is dangerous and I think it will only get worse, until everything is destroyed.




Samo



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