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Slightly enhanced resolution of 'Somnambulesqueraderie Vigil' Copyright Wiley Trieff 2010.Related content
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he makes me think of Hellraiser cenobites.Β Again I am stunned by the quality and creativity.Β
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Heh, I remember old fan made Hellraiser and Silent Hill fan sites. How atmospheric they were, works of art in their own right. Like shrines in the wilderness, that few knew about, back in the day when the internet was a wild west, where only people who were skilled enough to perform the craft themselves from the ground-up, could make websites. Those were the days.
Clearly that doesn't description doesn't apply to me, ranting and raving on a social media venue. Still, make any old hack able to build their own house with store-bought familiars, when they don't even know how to on their own, and everything goes from being interesting to being like a giant shopping center. One that no one really understands how to manage.
Utopians will eat their own words, every work of humanity's turns to another Chernobyl or Hashima in the end. Then the wheel humanity has nailed itself to will merely enter another rotation. One only need look to known history for reference. Roughly six or so thousand known years of repeating this process, and they really think they've gotten it right this time. Poor, poor fools.
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Thanks for such long reply.
I don't know if I was even using the internet around those times, to tell the truth. Some of the old websites and forums certainly had an impact on me and help me become who I am now. But I don't really mind places like DeviantArt (even though it's the only social media site I am registered on. I do consider some expansion though.) I think art is at it's best when it acts like a virus, spreading from mind to mind and multiplying.
As for your last point, I can only partially agree, I don't think that everything humanity does result in catastrophe in the end. Β That is a rather fatalist approach, something I am firmly opposed to. On the other hand, I certainly agree that humanity repeats old mistakes. I don't know how you define "utopians" because for each person a utopia would be something different, therefore I don't think it's possible. Personally I never really concerned myself about such issues, just making the most of the time I've got.
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I suppose, like your approach to the idea of 'utopia', I don't attach my discourse to 'isms'. I personally don't view myself as fatalistic in the least. I think an individual can liberate themselves from the fate of all mere cults (including mundane ones) and live with dignity. No mass-replicated 'type' of being ever survives though. They all go extinct in the end. I don't see anything particularly catastrophic in this. To every thing there is a season.
While it may not be a typical human's vision of paradise, the plants and the birds seem to love places like Chernobyl and Hashima. I simply don't have a particularly human-centered, or even remotely centralized worldview. The whole thing seems too complex for any one force of nature to control on its own. I don't even think most people understand what's going on inside of themselves, let alone control it.Β
When one considers those exceptionally self-controlled, take a historical figure like Miyamoto Musashi for instance. They never fit the stereotype of iron-fisted with a legion of followers. Those are poor substitutes. Most of them, at least from what I've read, don't tend to view themselves or the world particularly seriously. Deeply perhaps, but not seriously. Again, I don't personally view this as fatalistic. More just accepting of a reality more compelling than mundane fact, that a mind for now trapped in a lump of meat called a human being, is far too small a thing to have an omnipotent view of reality.
Lots of hot heads who thought they'd tamed the oceans. They get swallowed, and never get found. I respect natures' mysteries and that which can destroy my body or even my mind when not handled respectfully. Can't think of an ism that really applies to that. Don't need one.
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Thank you, much appreciated.
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