The Abiding Appeal of Self-Immolation
Those who engage in self-immolation today are raging against a world grown immune to the human quest for meaning and self-sacrifice.
Those who engage in self-immolation today are raging against a world grown immune to the human quest for meaning and self-sacrifice.
If we do not wish for our reality to become a boundless, shapeshifting simulacrum, we may just need to rebuild the entire modern worldview from the ground up.
The lord of the underworld and his Persephone stand before the stark fruits of Puritanism and modern industry.
There is a macabre precedent in the bizarre accounts, world over, of people dancing themselves to death: an analogue to the painful hedonism of post-modernity.