We close our eyes before they are blinded by grit in the wind, but what if the grit is the truth? Shall we close our eyes because we can’t do anything about the gritty truth anyway? Yes, that’s it, our earnestness is too embarrassing, too uncool, too simple, better to close your eyes and mind your own business. And then we see a concentration camp and this comforting bourgeois coolness gets blown off the charts. Our James Dean personas don’t work anymore and we don’t know what the fuck to do.
Jan Hermansays
As always, and even with Beckett’s devouring pessimism, you bring context and currency to what can seem obscure.
I was just looking at a picture of a child pulled from the rubble of a bombed building in Aleppo, Syria. I’m not sure my comment gets to the truth at all. Maybe we humans really like genocide. It is so satisfying, a genuine resolution, the ultimate settling of matters. Genocide, of course, can lead to accusations of excess, so we must practice the pleasure of extermination discretely. The Middle East is thus bringing us yet another development in the evolution of human nature: Creeping Genocide. More grit in the wind. Let’s close our eyes.
We close our eyes before they are blinded by grit in the wind, but what if the grit is the truth? Shall we close our eyes because we can’t do anything about the gritty truth anyway? Yes, that’s it, our earnestness is too embarrassing, too uncool, too simple, better to close your eyes and mind your own business. And then we see a concentration camp and this comforting bourgeois coolness gets blown off the charts. Our James Dean personas don’t work anymore and we don’t know what the fuck to do.
As always, and even with Beckett’s devouring pessimism, you bring context and currency to what can seem obscure.
I was just looking at a picture of a child pulled from the rubble of a bombed building in Aleppo, Syria. I’m not sure my comment gets to the truth at all. Maybe we humans really like genocide. It is so satisfying, a genuine resolution, the ultimate settling of matters. Genocide, of course, can lead to accusations of excess, so we must practice the pleasure of extermination discretely. The Middle East is thus bringing us yet another development in the evolution of human nature: Creeping Genocide. More grit in the wind. Let’s close our eyes.