Stares at the World

Tagged: Narrative

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Society

Travis Scott, Astroworld, and a World without Christ

This weekend’s headlines were devoted to the mass casualty event which occurred at Travis Scott’s Astroworld concert in Houston. At least 8 are confirmed dead – apparently passing out from the heat and being trampled by the crowd – and some are claiming that the body count was much higher. I was unfamiliar with Travis Scott prior to this, but after seeing some video clips of the concert – the omnipresence of the All Seeing Eye, the demonic imagery on the screens behind him, the Hellmouth which participants needed to walk through to attend, and the discordant, autotuned, vocals of...

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Philosophy / Society

The Cultural Event Horizon: The Auto-Reflexive Story of the Silver Screen

This is the first part in a series I am working on about what is happening during the current inflection. Numerous social trends and technologies have reached a point where reality as we knew it has shifted. Just as the cannon destroyed the city-state, and the rifle destroyed the medieval knight, we’re reaching a point where the assumptions of the past no longer apply. In this first article I’ll be looking at how our new forms of storytelling are altering our perception of reality. I am going to start with a premise which is so self-evident that it’s easy to...