dohboi wrote:
When ecologist and others talk about Industrial Society being a culture of death, I think that is off a bit. It is a culture of denial of death. And in the process it becomes a culture of something deeper than mere death--it's really a culture of annihilation.
Very well said. That which you deny and suppress has a way of raising its ugly head.
I am just thinking about our modern cultures glorification of youth, how we hide death and sickness, tuck away the mentally ill, institutionalize the aged, sanitize our bodies and homes with all kinds of perfumed products, manicure our lawns.
And let's not forget to put on our seat belts and safety helmets on the way to the annihilation!
I will share a small story. My family had a notorious reputation in our neighborhood when our daughters were growing up. Every Halloween we created a display that was so horrifying that most of the little kids under 5 started crying and never made it to the front door out of terror. We hung spanish moss forming an archway to the door, took old Barby dolls and dismembered them and hung the heads arms and legs from strings and stuck forks and knives in them and added ketchup. Half buried baby dolls in the mulch. Old cattle bones on the pathway. A fan was blowing this gargoyle wooden carved head that had real horse teeth and hair. Speakers were placed in the bushes playing gregorian chants. Everything was dark except the torches we lit.
Most of the houses in the neighborhood just went to walmart and hung up a flat pumpkin picture on their windows, just a sanitized cartoon version of halloween.
The day of halloween all the kids in the neighborhood came over and helped us set up the display. There was so much pumped up energy and creative ideas about how to amp up the horror.
It was very cathartic. And this was a south florida suburban neighborhood, about the most artificial sanitize living arrangement you can find in America.
Some of our neighbors hated us
Patiently awaiting the pathogens. Our resiliency resembles an invasive weed. We are the Kudzu Ape
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