I have been reading
Why Hasn't Everything Disappeared
by Jean Baudrillard.
It is not about nihilism
the empty wish of some for the cessation of existence
nor the extinction of environmentalism
We are disappearing due to the fact that we are
extracting our essential selves from the real
by defining our world
we reduce each defined thing
to smaller manageable parts
this reduces the context and nuance
of each inter-related piece
thus limiting the scope of existence
by blinding us to so much
of the real
I love heavy metal.
The distortion the throb and hum
To me, it is the growling expression
of human alienation
an alienation bred of the modern dilemma
we are dislodged from our ancient sacred pathways
we are lost on ground
that was once clearly mapped
for a humanity engaged in surviving
now life is like a piece of paper
with a list of enumerated properties
weight, speed, phylum, hue saturation
in this we seek to express
our need for an ordering principal
the quantum descriptions of time
small inert pieces of space
naming and describing our way to a secular godhead
we strip away all of the layers
of mystery and meaning
we are left with a fixed typography
and an ever shifting plain of human values
the peels slip from our fingers
adrift on the wind
we can hope for little more
than a well written description
in a lexicon of disappointments
