Phlegm in throat feeling for weeks. Allergies, sinus infection, something more mysterious. Not every ailment has an entry in a book. Related to spring, the stirring earth; winter is the season of death; spring is life and life is fresh aches and flesh-eating illnesses. The time of year when everyone wakes up, including intestinal parasites. Sprouting seeds, stinging bugs, viruses and germs; peel off those layers, shed that winter weight and do naked summersaults in needly new grass where poisonous insects and irritants have unprotected sex.
"Loneliness and atomization... Caused by capitalism, the rapacious drive for profit, individualism and so on. Try a simpler explanation: we don’t like each other all that much, nor do we like ourselves."
Dialectic at work here; move to a place like where I live, where basic communal solidarity still exists to some extent and late-stage capitalism isn't the only game in town, and you find that folk don't dislike each other all that much. Some of them even like themselves, though corporations are working hard to stamp that shit out ASAP.
This sentence of yours made me chuckled - "If life is short why are you so slow in getting to it." I agree that the loneliness, depression, narcissism trends have been analysed to death by now. There's just so many different ways to describe how messed up we are and the fact that we have society to assign some blame to.
You mentioned A24 and that instantly brightened up my day. I'm a big fan of the studio too. So many masterpieces produced in such a short span of time. I have enjoyed their work with bolder narratives like Everything Everywhere All At Once, Midsommar, The Whale, Beef, Past Lives - unfolding human trauma stories in the most creative ways.
But you're right, I think that we like each other less. Whether it's from some of us having less tolerance, or that people are becoming more of an asshole. I mean, there's actually a book called "The Asshole Survival Guide" that came out in 2017 that teaches you how to deal with the ones in power. Assholes in power... I think that's the problem right there.
"Loneliness and atomization... Caused by capitalism, the rapacious drive for profit, individualism and so on. Try a simpler explanation: we don’t like each other all that much, nor do we like ourselves."
Dialectic at work here; move to a place like where I live, where basic communal solidarity still exists to some extent and late-stage capitalism isn't the only game in town, and you find that folk don't dislike each other all that much. Some of them even like themselves, though corporations are working hard to stamp that shit out ASAP.
This sentence of yours made me chuckled - "If life is short why are you so slow in getting to it." I agree that the loneliness, depression, narcissism trends have been analysed to death by now. There's just so many different ways to describe how messed up we are and the fact that we have society to assign some blame to.
You mentioned A24 and that instantly brightened up my day. I'm a big fan of the studio too. So many masterpieces produced in such a short span of time. I have enjoyed their work with bolder narratives like Everything Everywhere All At Once, Midsommar, The Whale, Beef, Past Lives - unfolding human trauma stories in the most creative ways.
But you're right, I think that we like each other less. Whether it's from some of us having less tolerance, or that people are becoming more of an asshole. I mean, there's actually a book called "The Asshole Survival Guide" that came out in 2017 that teaches you how to deal with the ones in power. Assholes in power... I think that's the problem right there.