Every adult senses that their attention is slipping, that their thinking is flattening, that their world is flooded with noise, no neutrality, and that no institution really exists to protect them. Your brain is for sale, my guy - as your attention goes, so does your cognition, so does your sense of depth and certainty.
I'm a big fan of the "GPS Theory" when you miss a turn, your GPS doesn't judge you, it recalculates. No matter how many detours you take, it finds another way forward. Life works like that too. You'll make mistakes, but your destination doesn't vanish. The route just changes.
The ability to see beyond —beyond good and evil sure, but also beyond comfort, success, achievement, domesticity, beyond even our selves—and look toward nuance (towards the erotic!) which means engulfment, annihilation, death.
The tusk pierces Adonis.
Cupid’s dart takes aim at St. Sebastian.
The nail is driven into Christ’s flesh spilling out his... See more
After Adonis’s death, the boar is said to have protested that it had not meant to injure the beautiful youth with its erotikous odantas , or “eroticized teeth.”
Adonis was young and beautiful. Ideal in his form. So ideal that even Aphrodite herself, the goddess of love and beauty couldn’t resist him. Her desire so intense, in fact, that she twisted the fates to have her love.