27.11.08

the power of nightmares or ... what is your greatest fear

song | the nagging of mah cat
mood | conteplative

In a society that believes in nothing, fear becomes the only agenda. Whilst the 20th century was dominated between a conflict between a free-market Right and a socialist Left, even though both of those outlooks had their limitations and their problems, at least they believed in something, whereas what we are seeing now is a society that believes in nothing. And a society that believes in nothing is particularly frightened by people who believe in anything, and, therefore, we label those people as fundamentalists or fanatics, and they have much greater purchase in terms of the fear that they instill in society than they truly deserve. But that’s a measure of how much we have become isolated and atomised rather than of their inherent strength.

But the fear will not last, and just as the dreams that politicians once promised turned out to be illusions, so, too, will the nightmares, and then our politicians will have to face the fact that they have no visions, either good or bad, to offer us any longer.

[excerpt taken from here]


which leads me to the question, is there still something, in which we might believe at all? i don't mean the things we claim to, as those we observe or carry out without the former meaning behind them. nah. i mean, is there something, we really believe in, with all our might and ability?

[tbc]

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