March 2009
“Mankind, which in Homer’s time was an object of contemplation for the Olympian gods, now is one for itself. Its self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.”
—Walter Benjamin, Art In The Age of Mechanic Reproduction
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Andrew Bird - Why?
“It is my duty to proclaim unbelief”, Kirillov was pacing the room. For me no idea is higher than that there is no God. The history of mankind is on my side. Man has done nothing but invent God, so as to live without killing himself; in that lies the whole of world history up to now. I alone for the first time in world history did not want to invent God. Let them know once and for all.
“I don’t understand how, up to now, an atheist could know there is no God, and not kill himself at once. To recognize that there is no God, and not to recognize at the same time that you have become God, is an absurdity, otherwise, you must necessarily kill yourself.” —Demons. FD.
“I don’t understand how, up to now, an atheist could know there is no God, and not kill himself at once. To recognize that there is no God, and not to recognize at the same time that you have become God, is an absurdity, otherwise, you must necessarily kill yourself.” —Demons. FD.
February 2009
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Now that four months have gone by since the end, the two and a half years we spent together feel surreal. A temperate dream framed by a vermilion surmise. An empty home, a girl, a boy, money spent and lost. Car accidents and death. The shifting of miles between us becomes ever imminent as it’s your turn to pack your bags and leave across the valleys, hills and deserts of the West as you head East. I don’t love you anymore but I consider what I have lost. A part of me knows that things might have been different. If money and other women didn’t exist.
I resent that you have spent more on her in three months than you ever did on me in two years.
The truth is that, I no longer recognize your face.
