“It is not so much that modern men have ceased to believe in god as it is they have ceased to believe in transcendence. We still have gods, but they are immanent. They are here and now and nowhere else in history or in the future. Immanent gods require a culture of immanence, as well, and so we have exalted art which affects us immediately and profoundly. We prize art which is sleek, sensual, sexy, shocking, loud, flashy, funny, and fast-paced. Subtle art is heretical, then, for it requires long periods of contemplation and by the time it is understood, we will have already moved on to the worship of new gods.”
-From Love What Lasts (Winter, 2020)
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. 