An xxjfg archive for posts featuring Cult of Youth.
The list is the origin of culture. It’s part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order — not always, but often. And how, as a human being, does one face infinity? How does one attempt to grasp the incomprehensible? Through lists,…
When things get too much in our crumbling palace of vertiginous spires (e.g. bouts of mass hysteria and witch hunting amongst the superstitious peasants down the hill, or that feeling of ennui that often afflicts the detached beholder of the rise and decline of the latest empty fad in the outskirts of the Babylonian city…
The face of the mother was first green, nourished by the energy of secret reservoirs. There built the naked apes their temples, scarring her skin still she smiled. Around these temples, villages grew in an avalanche of life, subsistence, commerce. Eventually the temples were demolished by the new religion, and replaced by churches, the primeval…