Comments | sboydtaylor: Theory: The Haunting Dread -- The Zeitgeist of Modern America.

sboydtaylor

Theory: The Haunting Dread -- The Zeitgeist of Modern America.

Nov 24, 2009 16:15

wendigomountain (Clint Harris) has a post up here describing this nameless DREAD, this underlying tension that haunts him from time to time. It brought back some of the old debates on Broken Circles ( Read more... )

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sboydtaylor November 25 2009, 03:02:20 UTC

I think it's why in "Teddy Bears and Tea Parties" the whole world is hungry -- literally everything is starving.

But I could be wrong. Just the writer, not a critic.

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sboydtaylor November 25 2009, 14:43:44 UTC

Gargling gargoyles, batman. :) I know what you mean.

pea_faerie November 25 2009, 16:48:16 UTC

Really interesting post! I think you're right that we're all looking for something, and some are more empty than others. I know the dread about which you're speaking, but I admit, it doesn't come often for me. I think this is what makes people turn to religion (of any type, I mean religion in the broadest way possible). Some connection with an infinite than can offer some sort of antidote to the dread ( ... )

sboydtaylor November 27 2009, 22:00:00 UTC

Thanks! And I think I understand what you're saying. Although I find it hard to grok the idea of celebrating dread, I think I understand where you're coming from.