Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Haunted

We continue to add these petty pretty details to this house that we've been building for so long. It's almost done now. Even the last coat of paint is dry. Most of the workers have packed up their tools and have gone home. We've entirely forgotten to step back from these petty pretty details to which we devote so much time and energy and regard the entire house. If we were to step back, we'de see that this mansion is really a horrific haunted house. These details we've been adding are nothing but spattered blood and with every brush stroke, every song, poem, story, picture or film - or even every action- we make we kill ourselves more and more. We are creating spectres of ourselves, we are haunting this mansion we've made by destroying every scrap of humanity left within us by adding to its overlayden walls with our own blood. We are creating our own demise, we are creating horrific images of ourselves- phantasms. With the climax of this banshee moan our destruction will rush in like the wind through every door and window, slit and crack in the wall. Then with a great shake, a great spectacle of light and sound we will topple this mansion to the ground and nothing will be left. This is the state of our society. The horror grows daily.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

can we find redemption and purification in the breakdown?

the philosopher one said...

Perhaps, but it cannot and must not be thought of. I don't think that redemption is necessarily a goal or even a desirable thing. Those words have far too many implications built into them. Perfect things are boring. I am being entirely unthoughtful right now though, need sleep, off to Tofino. I will try to post if anything comes to me.