Midday beat to let nihilism have its moment.
There was an era when people had midlife crises, but the age of hitting traditional markers (coming of age, job, marriage, house, kids), then running out steam mid-race is kind of outmoded now.
What I see instead isn't individual decline; it's a larger lost belief in the myths that bind us as a society.
Rough stuff!
But where the social contract has been undone, it can be remade. Has to be.
So we let the nihilism move through us, and begin again.
yes, the myth has lost its power to unite people in their common humanity and suffering. too many. as is said, the centre cannot hold.
now we're seeing
the rough beast which was trekking to Bethlehem to be born is now grasping at the levers of power in its last gasps of reassertion of relevance.
civilizations have come and gone before, but this number of Homo sapiens have not before been involved.
this too sharp pass. life always finds a way. it's happening under the radar.
