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https://followersoftheapocalyp.se/aside-a-quick-note-on-the-apocalypse/ Purity * Truth * Beauty Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:52:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://followersoftheapocalyp.se/aside-a-quick-note-on-the-apocalypse/#comment-100 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:52:53 +0000 http://fotapocalypse.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/aside-a-quick-note-on-the-apocalypse#comment-100 Ah Scott, there’s a lot in that comment and it’s awakened an old, old dream for me to properly research this stuff. Will order the Becker from the Library if I can.And you finished with an Eels quote. You are a LEGEND, sir.

]]> https://followersoftheapocalyp.se/aside-a-quick-note-on-the-apocalypse/#comment-99 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:39:05 +0000 http://fotapocalypse.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/aside-a-quick-note-on-the-apocalypse#comment-99 The study of eschatology and apocalyptic thinking is pretty well established, and clearly some of this is just our latest go around (the history of the 1890-1910 is fascinating to compare.)Part of my MA was on the notion of Freud’s “death drive” as it relates to narrative; that our connection to narrative is this combination of eros (the joy of immersion in the text) and thanatos (the desire to get to the end). I still think there’s something to it, not read through Freud necessarily. In a different, yet still Freud-inspired view, Becker’s “Denial of Death” is an interesting lense through which to view industrialized society and the anxiety of end times. So I’m all for putting some context around any apocalyptic talk. Yet I also like to recall that time as we know it only goes in one direction, entropy doesn’t decrease. Neither you nor I have ever not known a world in which a very few individuals had the ability to make a decision that would effectively destroy life on earth as we know it. Not many generations before ours did the notion of global-scale _anything_ really come up much. Not sure what I’m saying, really. “I don’t feel nothing now /Not even fear /Now that end times are here”

]]> https://followersoftheapocalyp.se/aside-a-quick-note-on-the-apocalypse/#comment-98 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:45:28 +0000 http://fotapocalypse.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/aside-a-quick-note-on-the-apocalypse#comment-98 well said.although i don’t know what to do with that last paragraph.i am still hopeful the world still has good ideas and better ideas to come. Perhaps that’s naive but it’s really the only world i can imagine living in.

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