/lit/ - Literature

People in ancient times may have had lives that were more fragile--and all the more precious-- to them, but I do believe that the world they experienced was far more richer, fuller, dripping with primordial truth and beauty, than our current times in their disinfected modernity.
The reason animist religions and so forth, the earliest religions, ever came to be is because the human spirit was so roused by the beauty and majesty and power of the natural world. The more we shut out the natural world--the more we put "industry" in its place-- the less of that sacred space.
Of course let's not delude ourselves, this is nature red in tooth and claw, not to unmindfully be slavishly emulated and adored. The cruel virus is the same part of this natural order, the black plague, untold deaths to unremembered tribes. It's all part of the same chaotic object.
Still, the timeless beauty of the past when it was truly beautiful, the stuff seen by the poets of old, redeems so much of that corruption.