At any given instant
\nAll solids dissolve, no wheels revolve,
\nAnd facts have no endurance—
\nAnd who knows if it is by design or pure inadvertence
\nThat the Present destroys it’s inherited self-importance? <\/p>\n
—W.H. Auden (1944) <\/p>\n
What happens when we have no more heroes? It’s like our biggest secret. What happens when what we worship becomes human, when we realize what we idolize is just like us.<\/p>\n
I don’t think we need religion, but we need heroes. Blazing tales of creation we’ve carried from the campfire to a modern landscape of silver screen stars. It’s not about gods, it’s about the way we’re wired. A heart to heart with heaven, “You’re one of the lucky”, it matters what I do with this. We are sad little ghosts, creating special people, celebrity trails of undiluted glory and light. <\/p>\n
But they’re not. I had breakfast with someone who spoke in awe about my friends and friends of friends. Envy dripping to his plate yellow as the yolk of the egg I swiped up with my brown bread toast. He didn’t know the compartmentalizations inside my brain. The way my neural network touches these people. I didn’t have to care, but I did. I’ve seduced my heroes, shattered my poets. I’m Penny Lane to the world I want. Techno tart perfect, I don’t need this. <\/p>\n
I am potent, I can conquer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At any given instant All solids dissolve, no wheels revolve, And facts have no endurance— And who knows if it is by design or pure inadvertence That the Present destroys it’s inherited self-importance? —W.H. Auden (1944) What happens when we have no more heroes? It’s like our biggest secret. What happens when what we worship … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}