
Source: Put on Your Crown: Life-Changing Moments on the Path to Queendom
#The sadness
Source: Put on Your Crown: Life-Changing Moments on the Path to Queendom
Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
“Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.”
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Source: The Politics of Experience (1967), p. 1 of Introduction
Context: Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible. There is little conjunction of truth and social "reality". Around us are pseudo-events, to which we adjust with a false consciousness adapted to see these events as true and real, and even as beautiful. In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie. What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism — can we do more than reflect the decay around and within us? Can we do more than sing our sad and bitter songs of disillusion and defeat? The requirement of the present, the failure of the past, is the same: to provide a thoroughly self-conscious and self-critical human account of man.
“When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad.”
Source: A Long Way Down
Page 145
2000s, Promises to Keep (2008)
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 38 Glacier Kwong https://www.resilience.org/stories/2021-05-04/what-could-possibly-go-right-episode-38/ (4 May 2021)