Every artist should yearn for anonymity, because with walls it is possible to have a sincere dialogue without incurring the risk of suffering discomfort. Walls silently accept that art evolves and expression becomes ever more powerful. However, publication—that is, subjection to persecution—seems to be the artist’s duty, in honor of all those who have gone before him and suffered from the hatred of imbeciles.
Category: Notes
Buddhism Is Drop Everything and Live on Alms
I would take Buddhism integrally as a model of conduct if doing so did not involve assuming a state of dependence that I find intolerable. Buddhism, to the letter, is to drop everything and live on alms. From this, the conclusion: if the final liberation requires as a mandatory step the complete subjection to this world, even temporarily, I will never experience it. It is as if, desiring freedom, it were first necessary to submit to the worst and most complete form of slavery. On second thought, I correct myself: I would not take Buddhism integrally because, integrally, anything becomes unpalatable.
An Evolutionary Process Where the False Perishes
If historically there is, as Thomas Carlyle says, an evolutionary process where the false repeatedly perishes, one must conclude that society is bound to erect and overthrow lies. Otherwise we must ask: why does something equally false always overlap with the overthrown falsehood? Or even: how many more millennia will it take for mankind to get rid of this evil cycle? On a collective level, any outline of a solution seems impossible.
Society Has Become Radically More Cynical
With the democratization of the West, the advent of the press, and especially marketing, society has become radically more cynical and its means of oppression even more perverse. The State has become stronger than ever and has expanded its methods of social control, assuming the position of God and waging war against the manifestation of the individual, reducing him to nothing and taxing him as a criminal if he opposes its tyrannical and immoral impositions. Censorship has become prior, condemnation veiled, defense mechanisms have been annulled by mass psychology—all this operated by an authority based on a false and hypocritical foundation that only grows. Cynicism and lies have never been used so effectively as instruments of domination and power.