Submitted by crazymonk on Tue, 07/03/2007 - 5:00am.
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this will all sound rather overwrought, but i figured i so rarely find myself feeling wholly without irony that i'd capture it.
i started crying like 10 seconds in. real crying, because it came as such a shock - especially in the midst of some seriously depressing work and my frustrated hopelessness over scootergate - how long it had been since i really believed that human existence is justified, or at least that the average amount of suffering might be counterbalanced by the very potential for great Art.
and like specifically, this art connects humans with the physical world's power in a way i find so fucking moving. it seems so integrative and whole when i feel like most of the world is the proverbial widening gyre.
and i have this crystal clear sense of catharsis right now, like the ONLY way my body needed to cope with the psychotic political reality we find ourselves in (other than my constant irony/sarcasm/schlong jokes/escapism - all of which are quite lovely and practical in their own right - or complacency/ignorance/childrearing - which probably are too but i haven't tried) - was a hefty dose of humanist beauty. i feel certain of this. i find this odd. i am totally not going to be able to focus on my work right now.
thanks, luddite/monk.
love you, flea. i enjoyed the video a lot, as well as your reflections. crazymonk.org got a makeover since my last visit--love it!
Cheers.
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Comments (3)
this will all sound rather overwrought, but i figured i so rarely find myself feeling wholly without irony that i'd capture it.
i started crying like 10 seconds in. real crying, because it came as such a shock - especially in the midst of some seriously depressing work and my frustrated hopelessness over scootergate - how long it had been since i really believed that human existence is justified, or at least that the average amount of suffering might be counterbalanced by the very potential for great Art.
and like specifically, this art connects humans with the physical world's power in a way i find so fucking moving. it seems so integrative and whole when i feel like most of the world is the proverbial widening gyre.
and i have this crystal clear sense of catharsis right now, like the ONLY way my body needed to cope with the psychotic political reality we find ourselves in (other than my constant irony/sarcasm/schlong jokes/escapism - all of which are quite lovely and practical in their own right - or complacency/ignorance/childrearing - which probably are too but i haven't tried) - was a hefty dose of humanist beauty. i feel certain of this. i find this odd. i am totally not going to be able to focus on my work right now.
thanks, luddite/monk.
love you, flea. i enjoyed the video a lot, as well as your reflections. crazymonk.org got a makeover since my last visit--love it!
Cheers.