In the late 1970s, British Occultist Peter J. Carroll predicted an impending dark age where “ideas about a person’s place in society, roles, lifestyle, and ego qualities will lose their hold as the cohesive forces in society disintegrate;” a period where “lifestyle consultants will become the new priests of our civilization.”
Discovered in Southern Italy, Tarantism was a dancing mania believed to be induced by the bite of a wolf spider. The majority insisted that any victim had to act out a frenzied dance to prevent death. The dance, the Tarantella, adopted a folk style and 6/8 time, featuring tambourines and multiple, highly necessary flirtatious interactions between... See more
His negligence with me feels violent, his lack of response feels violent. After all, any calculation is a form of violence—just as my calling his violence violence is violence, but self-defense begs to be judged by an entirely different standard