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AND ANOTHER SEVRAL THINGS

LISTENING TO JOHNNY CASH I REALIZE I ACTUALLY DON'T LIKE HIS WORK AT ALL.

IT'S A STRUGGLE TO ARTICULATE FAULTS IN A WORLDFEELING FROM WITHIN THAT SAME WORLDFEELING, BUT THE MODERN MAN IS VERY FAR UP ITS OWN ASS. IT'S A LONG SEARCH FOR SHADES OF PERSONAL FEELING.
OOOO I SHOT A MAN IN RENO DOESN'T THAT MAKE YOU CURIOUS WHAT KIND OF INNER WORLD I HAVE???

PREMODERN BALLAD IS REMARKABLY UNCONCERNED WITH THE INNER WORLD OF A PARTICULAR PERSON. THE PREMODERNS DO NOT FIND IT WORTHWHILE. THEY CARE ABOUT THE SOCIAL CONDITIONS, WHETHER LIFE SHOULD BE APPROACHED CYNICALLY OR WITH HOPE, THEY CARE ABOUT GREAT MOVEMENTS AND EVENTS.
THERE'S ALSO LESS, ALMOST TO THE POINT OF NO, SKEPTICISM, COMPARED TO US.

WITH MODERNS YOU HAVE TO TALK OF THE PAST AS WITH A FUCKING KID. YOU HAVE TO HUMOR THIS CONCEIT THAT EVERYONE IN THE PAST WAS A MODERN AND HAD ONLY MATERIAL CONCERNS, SO EVERYTHING THAT ISN'T THE PURSUIT OF RESOURCES AND PRESTIGE IS JUST A FIG LEAF. AT NO POINT CAN THEY ADMIT THAT THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS TO PEOPLE IN THOSE CULTURES WERE ACTUALLY REAL, IT ALL HAS TO BE A CON PULLED ON DUPES.
PURSUIT OF THE HIGHEST, OF IMPERISHABLE GLORY, REACHING UP TO THE DIVINE -- ALL MUST EITHER BE FAKE, OR CODE FOR DIGGING UP YOUR ASS FOR SHADES OF FEELING BECAUSE THAT'S HOW IT IS FOR US MODERNS.
NOT ROOTING AROUND YOUR INNER WORLD IS WORKS RIGHTEOUSNESS.

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO CONCEIVE OF A GUY WHO IS INWARDLY EVIL AND HAD DONE SOME SHIT, PUT SOME VILLAGES TO THE SWORD MAN WOMAN AND CHILD, ATTAIN TO HEROISM BY KILLING A DRAGON IN A LITERAL SENSE. BECAUSE TO ANCIENTS A HERO IS SOMEONE WHO KILLS A DRAGON. YOU DO THE ACTUAL THING AND IT CONFERS THE CHANGE.
NOT SO FOR MODERNS. A HERO IS THE TYPE OF GUY IN HIS INTERNAL WORLD AND PERSONAL CHARACTER, WHO WOULD KILL A DRAGON, AND THE ACTUAL KILLING OF THE DRAGON IS THIS OUTWORKING OF THE INWARD CHANGE. PROTESTANT MYTHOPOETICS.

THE INWARD WORLD OF THE ANCIENT MAN IS LESS ACCESSIBLE BECAUSE LESS JOURNALS SURVIVE AND BIOGRAPHIES AND AUTOBIOGRAPHIES JUST AREN'T MADE -- AGAIN, THESE PEOPLE JUST WEREN'T INTERESTED. SO IT IS ASSUMED THE INNER WORLD IS THE SAME.

THE COMBINATION OF INSISTING UPON THE INNER CHARACTER AS FOUNDATIONAL TO PERSONHOOD, AND AT THE SAME TIME THE REFUSAL OF ANY MODE OF KNOWLEDGE BUT EMPIRICAL, - MAKES MODERN MAN THOROUGHLY SCHIZOPHRENIC AND LEADS TO ALL OF THIS INNER SEARCHING IN SONG AND WRITING.

THE MECHANISM FOR TRANSMISSION OF CULTURAL OR GROUP KNOWLEDGE IS FIGURES OF AUTHORITY, WHAT ARE YOU, A DUPE? THE VILLAGE ELDER IS LYING TO YOU TO KEEP YOU TRAPPED IN THE SYSTEM, MAAAAN. THINK FOR YOURSELF!
NOW, CAN YOU READ MINDS?
RUH ROH.
YOU CAN'T ARRIVE AT ANYONE'S INNER CHARACTER FROM YOUR OWN SENSE PERCEPTION THEN. YOU MUST INFER AND CAN NEVER BE CERTAIN. HENCE THIS FUNDAMENTAL ALIENATION AND AUTISM THAT MODERN MAN FEELS.