/lit/ - Literature

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>but lets say cave paintings, arent they depictions of the 'market' as a family of hunters would make of it?
bataille lost his shit over the cave paintings in lascaux. probably campbell too. had to be something there.

>their cave paintings as console to the guilt they feel about hacking an animal disembowling it and munching away. is advertising our console for the collective genocidal guilt as humans?
i dont know...

me neither. i fucking hope not. it's def possible that the cavemen were just as mediocre and fucked up as people today. kind of a mega-downer to think about.

there's got to be something about seeing it in person, tho. or of imagining what it would have been like to paint those things, for the first time, millions of years ago. or even just perhaps to feel some kind of weird connection with the cavemen who painted them, way back when. the idea that for all of this things *haven't* changed, so much. an encounter with one's own primitivism, i guess. or maybe that feeling you get when you come back from a camping trip and see all the ridiculous unreality of modern electrical civilization. that too.

there's a baudrillard line about this:
>the skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert, and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them the mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.