we step over the holes in the pavement, broken concrete and bent traffic signs, schoolgirls’ graffiti, old cars grunting weird fumes, anonymous remains of old posters forever glued to lead paint, pidgeons in the trash, anti-hobo metal teeth, granite tributes no one reads to people no one knows — the city are ruins of something unknown, debris of work in progress, holes left by the past like fossils, some sort of collective dream now as dead as the collective itself — we have our soma, our jobs and mp3 players, our bars and blogs and books, a billion ways to not think — television was the real death of religion — the city, ruins of an era when stuff was real, a giant pile of no big deal, plato’s ultimate failure.
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Perhaps unintended, but suggestive.
Comment by leandro — 2008-06-26 13:32:34
religion was the peasant release of circenses, their spectacle, their own way of not to think (about how their life sucked). television killed it because computer graphics are cooler than cathedrals and rockstars are cooler than yelling, jumping preachers. today’s drug is not to distract you about how life sucks, because it stopped sucking — today’s soma is to distract you from tedium, from the obvious fact that society is meaningless. you can’t threathen people with hell anymore. it could work if you tried limbo.
you christians always tend to think religion still matters. it doesn’t. religion vs. atheism holy wars are as outdated as capitalism vs. communism; religious guys arguing with scientists are like old people in the park playing checkers and arguing whether mussolini was a good thing. we’re things of the past.
today’s generation isn’t religious nor anti-religious, they aren’t moral nor immoral, they’re not for nor against anything, they’re happily not caring about any of those boring topics while watching this month’s action movie (to be forgotten the day after).
Comment by leoboiko — 2008-06-26 13:37:19