Civilizational Death Wish

It's almost as if, in rejecting Logos, a vacuum is created, which is filled by wish-fulfillment strategy, which then (counter-intuitively), turns into a Death-Wish: our modern civilization/culture could care less what happens after it is gone, so long as the Doom is not perceived or made conscious, is painless, and happens immediately. It wants to die unexpectedly, easily, and quickly. The technical term is, a Death Wish. 
As long as these death wish conditions are met, then nothing else matters, except of course for wish (or fantasy) fulfillment in the pre-eminent Now. And this psyche alternates between these two twin black holes of singularity: Endless Progress and Instant Doom (John Michael Greer has drawn attention to the way this Progress/Armageddon dialectic works in the psyche). The world and reality disappear, along with any limits, contours, or patterns, and no vertical dimension is recognized. Instead of the Great Conversation, we get Endless Revolution and Dialectic. "Progress" doesn't really matter to them: only the illusion of such, in their lives and their way, so that the inner dissonance with reality can be drowned out in the static of their own propaganda. That's what drugs do - they create a haze.
Ethnomasochism; Capitalism as Death Drive; Death Drive; Death Cult
Category:Doom