civilization [Theme] Page 1

In the course of time, responsibility was blamed on thunder, on witches, on socialists, intellectuals, generals, or Jews. It is time to understand: responsibility lies with civilization itself.

Civilization is a farce. Saints, anarchists, actors of life are slaves of instincts. The heavenly state of purity cannot be achieved through earthly progress. The future, if it is destined to take place, is a song of heaven, a new human wisdom, the end of civilized superstitions, God.

Rimbaud's nature is the antithesis of civilization. The splendor of the first sets off the darkness of the second.

Civilization is destructive and cruel, its target is Sodom and Gomorrah. History is an endless conflict between natural and social, natural and ideological, Eden and Sodom. That is why it moves from the first to the second.

... civilizations are dying because their fruits grow and ripen for a few.

In the Universe, except for the sake of sterility of the Earth experiment, insurmountable spaces are provided.

The destructiveness of civilization, the desire for progress overthrows its own creations: God, ethics, reason ...

For civilization to survive, the human race must remain civilized.

... you can't immediately understand people, because they don't understand themselves. They have long been hiding in clothes. In a figurative sense, too. This is what I mean. This is the price of human civilization - in order to create it, they had to close the doors to their true self. And now, as far as I understand, they are lost. Therefore, they invented art - books, music, films, plays, paintings, sculpture - to build bridges to themselves, to their original essence. But no matter how close they get to her, she still remains inaccessible to them.

... Civilization is based on lies.

when I arrived, Raju, I decided: these people live like gods.
fabulous empty airports, unprecedented roads
whole glass in the window and a faience toilet even
in the simplest apartment
happy living here, he said,
like a few in this world
their parks are immense, raju, their houses are monolithic.
but none of their inhabitants sings a mantra in the morning,
no kirtan, no prayer.

- Rome itself does not create art, but it buys and takes it everywhere in the countries where it is created.
- What? Rome doesn't create art? And the world isn't art? War is not an art? Is the state not an art? Civilization is not art? All this we give you in exchange for a few trinkets.

And why should we be in the defensive position every time? Since when did something go wrong? Why in tsarist Russia it did not occur to anyone to ask: can we here ... In the Soviet Union, they would say that little did not seem. Since when did we go from a great country that dictated to almost become a disciple of some kind? Who looks and says, "Is that good? From the moment when for some reason they went to the Council of Europe? Pyotr Tolstoy said correctly - suddenly he saw - and what are we doing there at all? What for? Why did we decide that civilization was them? Not us. Excuse me. I was inflamed. Wanted.

Reason and will are the two wings on which human civilization and culture will ascend upward.