Yes, the point is the act. It leads to nothing; it means nothing. What’s the old Robert Anton Wilson phrase? They are “immantizing the Eschaton.” Not that they know it. But they sure do feel it.
Yeah, that's exactly it--they don't know what they do, but they absolutely feel it. It's like the opposite of Cabaret, a kind of theatre of the fascist absurd.
The Abyss is looking back. Hard. The fascist-absurdists don’t realize that their gleeful gaze into the darkness is reflecting their absurdity; they don’t even know they’ve turned nothing into a mirror.
Yes, the point is the act. It leads to nothing; it means nothing. What’s the old Robert Anton Wilson phrase? They are “immantizing the Eschaton.” Not that they know it. But they sure do feel it.
Yeah, that's exactly it--they don't know what they do, but they absolutely feel it. It's like the opposite of Cabaret, a kind of theatre of the fascist absurd.
The Abyss is looking back. Hard. The fascist-absurdists don’t realize that their gleeful gaze into the darkness is reflecting their absurdity; they don’t even know they’ve turned nothing into a mirror.