• 0 Posts
  • 14 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 20th, 2023

help-circle




  • Not to diminish any particular arguments, but this is how these conversations always play out in my view:

    Stop burning fossil fuels.

    But we are in overshoot.

    Yes

    But we won’t be able to keep up agriculture.

    Yes

    But we won’t be able to keep up industry

    Yes

    But we won’t be able to keep up consumerism

    Yes

    But people will die.

    Yes :(

    But the rich will loses their riches

    Yes

    but but but

    It doesn’t matter what the cost is, that’s the solution. The rest is simply consequence - and it grows greater by each day we ignore it.

    Just because an ask is nigh impossible, does not mean that it is foolish or that it comes from ignorance.















  • If you find a hole hidden under geological eras, and it was made just for you and you knew it… you wouldn’t feel tempted at all to just… take a step in… a unique hole unlike any other in the world, this one welcoming you like your own shadow with its depths… and confirm that someone really did carve out your exact silhouette?

    It’s certainly something I could imagine happening in a dream. Like my recurring dream of driving off of bridges.

    There is a Buddhist element of reincarnation going on which might be lost on some foreign audiences, but the feeling it is trying to summon should be familiar - a strange familiarity of something that should be unknown to you, an inexplicable intuition, something that feels like it could be from a past life, a premonition, deja vu.

    If none of this is relatable to you, that’s okay, but it is relatable to myself and many others. Hopefully you don’t have recurring dreams about driving off of bridges, either.


  • The surreal aspects beg you to drop your hyper-criticism and to look for deeper imagery. I love it. And he can do it in such a short form, while also managing to singularly capture the psychological horror as well as anyone.

    Imagine present day Stephen King telling stories through a one-shot manga. The action wouldn’t even be started before he ran out of paper! Of course, King has his own masterful way of conveying horror and it works very well, too.