CapitaineFormidable

The Marxist dogma “Religion is the opiate of the masses” has been extended by its Western equivalent, realistic materialism, to every kind of “unreality”, an unreality that is nothing but cultural superstructures and, in fact, culture itself. Cultural values cannot be called realistic: they are myths, conventions and fiction, and are not compatible with total adjustment to the facts of life. To sit down and write a love poem is sublimation: abstract painting is turning your back on materialism and on the world as it is: the whole of Renaissance art was based on something that Marxism or atheism considers a fallacy. The unreasonable, irrational beliefs, myths, and fantasies are at the source of our greatest achievements. It is impossible to reconcile Faust, Don Juan, Homer, or Hamlet with awareness. Total awareness is cultural suicide and sometimes just plain suicide.