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shallowrambles · 11 months ago

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I guess the truth is we’re all a little bit in purgatory, a world where work is a redundant, rote, day-to-day grind.

Black-and-white. Unthinking. Uncomplicated. Just survival. “Pure,” so we can philosophize to our heart’s content and meditate on our own emotions.

Assigned task, completed task.

We don’t emerge whole into the real world except in glimpses, seeing the damage our careers and commerce do or the horror the govt we serve has wrought.

So we retreat again—into the metaphysical purgatory of the day-to-day. “We’ve got work to do.” If we have to do it to survive, it lessens the moral wound of it.

#purgatory isn’t pure #it’s poughkeepsie #pure is a poughkeepsie word #purgatory is the specter of giving up #playing along #the unthinking plan #penance as servitude to a black-and-white system #ultimate workaholism bc you don’t deserve better #purgatory is not healing #it’s not purifying #it is one of the heaviest horrors #it’s on the nose as a metaphor for suicide #happy place is a euphemism for death and giving up #i think sometimes we get so caught up naval-gazing queer allegory we miss the deeper concepts #the horror of simple rules #the horror of war etc etc #and yet work is important for purpose #anti-capitalism #meaning vs nihilism

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