Genial question and the way it is asked. The consequence in Europe was a
decrease in birth rates, as if people did not accept the meaningless
development of life. See existentialism and postmodernism in which we are
still suffocating. By optimistic theories of catastrophies we should see the
reconstruction after the fall, the light after darkness, still as Charles
Martin says,
" In thinking of apocalypse, we wonder how the forking path is a connective,
how the end of the road is the beginning, how the ends of times are new
eras. In short, curious, we glance and attempt to decipher the cracks in
search of coherence and continuity."
in "Caption to the Visual" soon on the Corner.
On Dec 28, 2007 4:59 AM, Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The Twentieth Century
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> The twentieth century was a heap of corpses:
> Auschwitz, Jonestown, Hiroshima, My Lai,
> Cambodian clusters of skulls, shiny with dew,
> range after range of mountained carcasses,
> as if, when we summed it up, our world was death.
>
> But what were we trying to say, by doing this?
> So huge a crime must surely be a gesture,
> but one with a meaning beyond our understanding,
> like those Peruvian megaglyphs, meant to be read
> from a vantage point their makers could only imagine.
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