Lachesism: Longing For The Clarity Of Disaster

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Lachesism: longing for the clarity of disaster

 

The "Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows" is a playful attempt to come up with names for emotions that don't already have them.

 

Some examples that English has borrowed are schadenfreude from German: 'the pleasure derived from someone else's misfortune'

 

And aware from Japanese:

"Mono no aware  literally "the pathos of things", and also translated as "an empathy toward things", or "a sensitivity to ephemera", is a Japanese term for the awareness of impermanence , or transience of things, and both a transient gentle sadness (or wistfulness) at their passing as well as a longer, deeper gentle sadness about this state being the reality of life.

 

 

So with lachesism:

 It is the desire for a momentous rupture in the steady progression of life. Of course, people are not necessarily eager to experience catastrophic disaster, but there is the sense—celebrated in recent post-apocalyptic phenomena such as The Walking Dead and Mad Max: Fury Road—that disaster reveals who people really are when the niceties of civilized society are stripped away.

 

 

This was expressed more often in the early days of this site, especially from the survivalist crowd. It's the feeling that

 

A ) things just keep going on interminably, drably stretching out day after day.

B )however terrible the change will be, it will at least wash away all the encrustations and let us get back to our core- or at least as we imagine it to be.

 

Revolutionaries long for a Fascist dictatorship supposedly to "heighten the contradictions", but really so they can play Che Guevara in the ruins.

 

Many Apocalyptic Christians don't really want to be Raptured; they want to be of the Remnant fighting against the Beast.

 

And of course here we take it to the limit- what's more of a Great Change than the ZA?

 

 

 

For a million years we’ve watched the sky
and huddled in fear.
But somehow you still find yourself
quietly rooting for the storm.

As if a part of you is tired of waiting,
wondering when the world will fall apart
—by lot, by fate, by the will of the gods—
almost daring them to grant your wish.

But really you can wish all you want,
because life is a game of chance.
And each passing day
is another flip of the coin.

Who could blame us for wanting to be there when it lands?

 

 

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