Modernity

Let us as a thought split human kind into a division of two.

Note how divorced we (on the one side) are from the past, as a conscious state of mind.

That second other opposing side of humanity, those who abide in "all fixed, fast-frozen relations" (after Marx) - they must live with the dead. Yet we too (all of us) are nothing but the past culminated- it's just that we are cast asunder but forward by our Marxist attitude.

In common, this history is the core of our anxiety and our need to be oblivious- the past is just too hard to bear. But we of course have to bear it, so for our part, we look away into the perpetual present, and we sometimes find it hard to even imagine a future any longer.

But still... if we love the earth... as Marxists, are better off than those for whom "the past is never dead, it's not even past" (after Faulkner) and they are cut off from the the good blue-green earth because they remain frozen in an already dead - but continually dangerous thorn sharp religion of life denial- denial of the body and the earth.

Now let  us divide humanity into a further division of three: and separate the third part from the second, by recognizing that there is not just one God in this ancient desert religion- but another who lies deep in the heart of the rapacious, there where is found a safe place for this thing- the God Mammon - this one all-powerful in plunder, racing all toward oblivion.

This is why we turn away, oblivious, after a way.

Kalinzskii