“This will hasten the restoration of paradise”
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NEGATING
EVERYTHING
THAT CAUSES
US TO BE DEAD
WHILE ALIVE
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oopdate 1
We do not need to look at the news to see we are living in the Kali Yuga. It’s a dark age where we’re all surveilled, herded and targeted to a stupefying degree. Our bodies have been turned into profit-optimized enterprise zones. Our senses have been neutered. Our brains have been gentrified. Our cities have been stripped of authenticity and replaced with immersive experiences.
We have resolved that the only thing to do maintain a cheery disposition. To steal a line from Andre Breton, we will
negate everything that causes us to be dead while we are alive.
oopdate 2
To keep us from lapsing back into the old habit of sleeping all day,
we have decided to take down all of our curtains and blinds. What happens in the top half of our bedroom is now on display for our neighbors across the road to see. When laying flat on our bed, we are just a few inches below visibility.
Now we wake with the dawn and no longer set an alarm. When getting out of bed, we avoid exposing our bodies by sliding down and dressing on the floor. We read books, play and drink coffee slowly. At night, we are exhausted, but this is type of exhaustion sleep will alleviate.
oopdate 3
It feels so unsexy to complain, so even when the weather is bad, we put on our shoes and go walking through the park to the lake. Strolling along, we weave constellations from all that we have recently experienced and found out.
Our minds organise these new inputs and shuffle them into our existing thought patterns and diagrams. By doing this, we expand what we call our inner geographies. When we reach the lake, we hope to possess a clarity that the families feeding the ducks do not. If we have been successful, we carry walking and go do some window shopping.
oopdate 4
We love systems. Corporations exploit systems and use them to hoard capital. We love the future. Capital determines the future by eliminating the old and implementing the new. We love elections. Candidates solicit capital from corporations and promise to reform the system and ensure the future belongs to us.
People carry distorted images, get carried away and say mean or hurtful things. We don’t find either side very interesting, but we tune in every night, eating our salads and dressed in clothes others might laugh at. We hope it will be okay, we say.
But our hope is simple, nothing fancy.