![]() ![]() Art itself has microcosmic events in its rapid generational expression all the same and when we’ve realized this in view of modern blackened death metal music, very few are earnestly rising to the auld standards of a mere three decades prior. Recurrence is not a fault of existence nor a plain ignorance of man but an ancient truth of flawed civilization of which we’ve little more than art and distended libraries to save us from devolutionary monarchic enslavement. Zosimus documented the rise of the Roman Empire and in doing so fairly depicting Christian emperors as sowers of division, that which would lead to the fall of the empire. Polybius saw this continuum and attempted to bring divisions, checks and balances that would later influence constitutional government. Where the artist stands tallest is marked where they define their point of opposition, their place in the wave (conquer, rise, and ruin) and which echoes of (seemingly) eternal human existence they can raise in extancy. That said, there are great works resultant of the cycle itself which are certainly tied to time and place but great works all the same. Men who have lived within any certain cycle of our ceaselessly repetitive human history are too often made mediocre by their own avoidance of historical study Those who seek the origin, the second advance, the series of inevitable rise and fall events are they who conquer or relent most notably. ![]() The scarab’s symbolism and “das schwerste Gewicht” of eternal recurrence.
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