the hum of our electric alienation the backdrop of a boring tragedy

>>9916799
I'm okay with this OP, but have considered just writing it as prose? I think it'd read smoother in that method, while still holding onto a bombastic, rhetorical element.

>divorced from belief which we'd be willing to die for
This would read better as:
Divorced from beliefs for which we'd be willing to die.

I've been re-reading some Baudrillard, I think the Perfect Crime would be right up your alley.

>>9916842
I didn't really pre-edit or anything just poured forth because I'm feeling suicidal

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>>9916850
>divorced from our ancestral heritage
>divorced from belief which we'd be willing to die for
>divorced from the very vitality of life

These lines make me think you're holding onto some kind of traditionalist/conservative emotions, nostalgia for a past era. Forget it, civilizations change, and that change will come at increasingly faster rates. Every attempt to regress into a previous model is yet one more splintering, one more choice. Nick Land put it nicely in a recent article:

>There is no withdrawal from the course of modernity, ‘back’ into community, that does not reinforce the pattern of dissent, schism, and exit from which atomization continually replenishes its momentum. As private conscience directs itself towards escape from the privatization of conscience, it regenerates that which it flees, ever more deeply within itself. Individuation, considered impersonally, likes it when you run.

In previous era's, there was no concept of technological change. A feudal serf's children would also be feudal serfs. If you were to ask that serf "How will your children live?" he'd look at you perplexed and say: "Just like I do". Today, no one knows how their children will live, but it is safe to assume that the future will be 'more'. More races, more genders, more ideologies, more genres, more religions, more parties, more gadgets, more connectivity, more interaction, more change, more schism.

So as far as being suicidal goes, if you can forget your desire for some past era, there is great sadistic pleasure to be taken from our civilization.... morph? mutate? evolve? devolve? change? degenerate? progress? I couldn't possibly pick the right verb to complete that sentence, each would betray a bias, each would be pure speculation. We are ahead of all goals, ahead of all projections. We accelerate, but we don't know what we accelerate towards.

But unlike those feudal peasants, you get to watch this happen. If you get a hard on, feel free to jerk off.

Pic related, the intro to the Transparency of Evil by Baudrillard.

>>9916899
By divorced I don't mean some kind of re-establishment of any historical past

Our historical past is just as much a nightmare as is our present

I mean something more primordial, dreamlike, hidden, mythological

I should think that we may soon tire of the insufferable drabness of our condition, but probably not while I am alive

That is the condition which i bemoan.

The world will eventually reach its golden age, but right now suffering in its deepest most ugly forms, kafka-esque in its ability to lack any remote inclination of mythological beauty, is our life-long vestment.

I am daily inclined to say to life "That is too much, I don't want that at all. I cannot stomach this nothingness presented to me any more. Go fuck yourself, inevitable metaphysical processes. I'm leaving."

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>>9916799
a little on the nose OP but still better than most stuff here

have you considered accepting Terry as your Lord and Saviour?

>>9917018
I love this dude. Even his shittiest movies have me asking myself where I lost contact with God and why

>>9917018
I appreciate your humour

Who is Terry
I don't think care for an answer though

The nose is the true guide to salvation
the only spiritual guide to follow

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>>9917033
>Who is Terry
I don't think care for an answer though

Terrence Malick
I think he is exactly what you need

>>9917110
I am fairly acquainted with marginal spiritual guides..

I don't need directional guidance anymore,
I am procrastinating an inevitability at this point

...this is not pretty.

>>9916899
He's pining for beauty, not the past.

>>9916899
No such liberation ever transpired, and everything said that is contingent upon that idea is meanignless.

>>9917150
well i hope you dont lose hope entirely mate

the world is still beautiful

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I think you should recognise that there will always be a recognition of - what is it? - a realisation or comprehension of timelessness among at least some people in any given era. Whatever condition we are being thrust into may be more daunting and 'traumatising' than whatever before due to its sheer scale and complexity, but I don't think it's not so large, so all-encompassing that it cannot be touched by art. Every man has had, does have and will have something much more powerful to contend with, and that is eternity, or it's lack thereof. Whatever age or epoch, whatever earthly power, it will fall away, but the relics left by people who touched it will last for a long long time.

A good thing about anonymous posting is you can take the risk of saying something that might either be really dumb and embarrassing or actually worthwhile and valuable and not have it come back to haunt you, so I'll make use of it and try not to either be too self-conscious or not too self-aware.
I rewatched Akira recently. I think there is something very compelling about it. It is a perfect expression of an era, it rings clarion bells of delightfully pungent familiarity and turns attention to all of time, and beyond it, into the metaphysical. It has an encouraging detachment from everything and yet a visceral sort of theatre experience, like watching your own real life and times but as if you were watching it in the future.

Live with your century, but do not be its creature.
- Schiller

https://youtu.be/V3hP2GaCHfU