CAMPFIRE
Time to sit by the Campfire - Contemporary Western Mythology
The wasteland theory contends that all would be a wasteland inhabited by savages were it not for the intervention of contemporary western civilization.
The word "civilization" creates the convenient distinction between savage and contemporary man.
The savage is obviously incapable of comprehending the concept.
Civilized man is rarely, if ever, called upon to explain it. Yet free to use it limitlessly to justify whatever he chooses.
And so the language of the poet becomes either the ramblings of the wasteland savage or a brilliant linguistic exercise of a perceptive, sensitive contemporary genius.
The Earth endures much in providing the privilege of enjoying her graces, yet it is ourselves we praise, not her.
Spiritual sense of wonder lost, ghostly silhouettes on cave-walls lost, lost to comprehension.
The wasteland theory contends that all would be a wasteland inhabited by savages were it not for the intervention of contemporary western civilization.
The word "civilization" creates the convenient distinction between savage and contemporary man.
The savage is obviously incapable of comprehending the concept.
Civilized man is rarely, if ever, called upon to explain it. Yet free to use it limitlessly to justify whatever he chooses.
And so the language of the poet becomes either the ramblings of the wasteland savage or a brilliant linguistic exercise of a perceptive, sensitive contemporary genius.
The Earth endures much in providing the privilege of enjoying her graces, yet it is ourselves we praise, not her.
Spiritual sense of wonder lost, ghostly silhouettes on cave-walls lost, lost to comprehension.
posted by Delibert Leomitted at
11:15 AM
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