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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
Considering how much we are threatened by individual greed, avarice, and lack of mutual human empathy in the world, perhaps you are wrong. Perhaps more than ever to survive and understand the post-modern world we need those insights and poetic beauty all the more. After all, lets not pretend the Romans or the Indians were all that savage, they lived what we would recognize as fairly modern lives, so their insights are perfectly apt for those willing to explore them. |
isnt empathy a bullshit construction of that very post modernism - an empty phrase that signifies feel good condescension? most people i know have extreme 'empathy' for media spectacles and zero concern for the lives of everyone around them.
but lets not get stuck in an intellectual pissing match here.
you are still completely and eternally stuck in post modernism if you think remixing the past is will change the future. thats the very trap that blinds everyone today. we need to stop going into the past to salvage what we think we should be - as if we can pay off the debt of our folly by going back a step as if we could change our subjectivity from there.
its the future that we've lost sight of. there is no longer even any promises made by those in power about what we can expect in the future. the new adam curtis film is apparently all about this - and his point is that today control functions by keeping us focused on dead images of the past that circulate endlessly.
you are operating on behalf of that kind of control and advertizing yourself with it.