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I've had excellent exchanges with Ana and Sonje back-channel; I think, at least for me, that dwelling has entangled and difficult boundaries, that discussion tends to blur into dream and the nightmare of burning cars and everything here, all over again, on the telly. Then it transforms into a repetitive compulsion, I wake up in the middle of the day or night for yet another narrative, always the same; it's as if the planet itself were suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome, tunnel memories playing back, repeating the same performance. I want to ask again if anyone has reference to a humanistic or healing nihilism, can one begin within degree zero expectation or projection, so to speak, and find some comfort in thought or movement, as if in flight elsewhere -
On Wed, 26 Nov 2014, Ana Vald?s wrote:
----------empyre- soft-skinned space---------------------- I wanted to take my share of the people arguing with Alan and maybe contributing, unintentionelly, to his feeling of unease. "I listened to your laments and I felt a deep sympathy for you trying to heal us, to heal the world. Maybe that's what I feel we maybe forget trying to make a diagnose and applicate a remedy. We have been through. we discussed the terrible ways the Mesopotamian kings killed each other, or Dario blinding thousands of prisoners and letting only one of each hundred to keep an eye to be able to lead the others back to their country. Maybe the destine of Humanity is this, to die in the most horrible ways and the only relief we get are small pockets of happiness, when we compose, as you do, when we sing, when we write, when we laugh with our dear ones. I don't think of you as a nihilist, for me a nihilist is a cynical and resigned observer and you are definitely not a observer but one letting it's sould being engaged in the honest search for answers." This was my comment to him. I think that's the key, to find small pockets of happiness, to don't try to heal the world but to embrace the pain and the losses and the loneliness and the absurdity... Ana -- http://www.twitter.com/caravia15860606060 http://www.scoop.it/t/art-and-activism/ http://www.scoop.it/t/food-history-and-trivia http://www.scoop.it/t/urbanism-3-0 cell Sweden +4670-3213370 cell Uruguay +598-99470758 "When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return. ? Leonardo da Vinci _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
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