On the one hand it’s understandable and understated that a person should appreciate his or her own life. On quite another the wish and pull toward death is natural, albeit unnerving. Honestly, what kind of lives are we enjoying in the post-post modern era? We seem like mindless fools being pushed toward and through different systems of bureaucracy. Although he was criticized for it then, what Baudelaire said about idleness – that we might spend more time reveling in beauty and basking in the solitude of knowledge – no longer has a place whatsoever.
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