August 8, 2022, "The Apocalyptic Fear"

Excerpt:

"The very wealthiest men on the planet have nearly all made their fortunes through the internet. In some fashion or other. The reliance on ever new aps and digital tracking of everything from restaurant reservations to health care speaks to the conscious insistence that life be tied to the internet. The transference of wealth to the top 1% (which accelerated under Obama) is nearly complete. The project now for that 1% is figure out what to do with a planet made toxic by the industries that made them wealthy. It is a planet of traumatized people who know something is wrong. Life is unsatisfying and feels incomplete. One strategy is keep manufacturing crises. The creation of alarm is big business, today...

The ineffable is that in which humanness is grounded. And it is that which Capitalism destroys. It is that which instrumental thinking and language seeks to render illusory. Children are born with it and they cling to it for as long as they can. Watching it finally wither and disappear is one of life’s tragedies. The role of artists is to refuse its marginalization. If the ‘off stage’ is being colonized, the result will be strip malls in the collective unconscious of humankind. There will be open pit mining where dreams once were. There will be Bradley Fighting Vehicles where once there was Dionysian eroticism and abandon."

https://john-steppling.com/202....2/08/the-apocalyptic