“How can you make an informed decision about whether to save the world if you never leave your tiny part of it?”
—Shaun David Hutchinson
“I thought if we made an album that tried to change the world, or give it hope, it would really happen. But all people found was death and destruction and misery and self-hate. I learned that the world doesn’t want to be saved, and it will fucking punch you in the face if you try.”
—Gerard Way
“Graphic design will save the world, right after rock n roll does.”
—David Carson
“Beauty will save the world.”
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
“That is what revolutionaries do. We sacrifice ourselves to save others.”
—Viet Thanh Nguyen
Modern society
is an inside out, microscopy, gynecology, brain surgery. We are not interested in that, we are interested in the mere skin of reality where passions and emotions mean something and where they perpetually attach to.
To be engaged
is an ethical standard, you exist in the eyes of others alone and you should look at them too. The crisis presumed and lived, by a storm of opportunities doesn’t not mean this standard shouldn’t be obeyed. The perpetual condescence over everything which is just means to see and be seen. The issue is what you do with it. In the romantic and the classic era they did plenty with it. I mean, the old, white guard is eventually going to shrivel up and die off – like, it’s not going to not happen. Tho this modern nihilism is an illusion.
It’s true
that I mainly react to the condescendance on artisan reality. People will not easily understand when I’m spouting filth like that.
But the filth
is an illusion, and not very avant garde. What is more important is that we didn’t change, so we ARE all those generations of past times, this is necessary to break time open.
It is my
fundamental belief that we should not accept modernism as a time period —
Instead
we should only accept a nü era where all decorative features are possible. As cosplay proves we need to realize this in every city, in architecture, sculpture and all of art.
—tristitia languorem
Flommist Tristitia Languorem eats tragedy. They have many names but it doesn’t change much the whole premise of the ideals. Antwerp, Belgium is where home is. It’s time for a fresh start. Copyright © 2020 Tristitia Languorem. Red segments quoted from: Libby Banks, The five most creative cities in the world, BBC, 2019.
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