St. John in the wilderness

Decadence

The Decadents had no interest for the real world and for the industrialization of society, which they considered pointless and the cause of man's unhappiness. Arts and dreams, on the other hand, were their unique sources of inspiration and, in the end, their lives. They loathed materialism and positivism, prefering instead the rejection of established norms, as well as the concept of Idealism and anarchy (or apolitism).
Idealistic and, paradoxically, disillusioned, the Decadents refused the mediocrity around them to recreate, through art, their very own world. As such, they rejected the concept of Positivism (developed by Auguste Comte), which was particularly popular at the time and which discredited the importance of dreams to concentrate on Rationalism and the faith in the evolution of man.

The Decadents

Thirty pieces of silver

I was thinking of different ways of killing something off.
Cornelia Parker

While my guitar gently weeps

I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at the floor and I see it need sweeping
Still my guitar gently weeps

I don't know why nobody told you
how to unfold you love
I don't know how someone controlled you
they bought and sold you

I look at the world and I notice it's turning
While my guitar gently weeps
With every mistake we must surely be learning
Still my guitar gently weeps

I don't know how you were diverted
you were perverted too
I don't know how you were inverted
no one alerted you

I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at you all
Still my guitar gently weeps

Oh, oh, oh
oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
oh oh, oh oh, oh oh
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah

Hedonismo Contemporaneo

• "El hedonista quiere una convivencia agradable, anarquía, las ideas de Epicúreo, alegría variopinta, sensualidad, desenfreno, amistad, justicia, tolerancia, libertad sexual, paz, acceso libre a la información, arte, una vida cosmopolita, un mundo sin fronteras ni discriminación y todas esas cosas bonitas que, lo peor no es que no existan, sino que existan sólo para algunos"(La Internacional Hedonista)
  

"Se cree que el hedonista es aquel que hace el elogio de la propiedad, de la riqueza, del tener, que es un consumidor. Eso es un hedonismo vulgar que propicia la sociedad. Yo propongo un hedonismo filosófico que es en gran medida lo contrario, del ser en vez del tener, que no pasa por el dinero, pero sí por una modificación del comportamiento. Lograr una presencia real en el mundo, y disfrutar jubilosamente de la existencia: oler mejor, gustar, escuchar mejor, no estar enojado con el cuerpo y considerar las pasiones y pulsiones como amigos y no como adversarios."
Michel Onfray

Nan Goldin

Hay que vivir la vida intensamente

Clay Spohn

" All things, even man-made things, having once been things of nature....must again, sometime, return to nature "

Albert Hofmann

"I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD.
It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be"

#/ What would you say to young people?

A.H: What I would say would most certainly be: Open your eyes! The doors of perception must be opened. That means these young people must learn by their own experience, to see the world as it was before human beings were on this planet. That is the real problem today, that people live in towns and cities, where everything is dead. This material world, made by humans, is a dead world, and will disappear and die. I would tell the young people to go out into the countryside, go to the meadow, go to the garden, go to the woods. This is a world of nature to which we belong, absolutely. It is the circle of life, of which we are an integral part. Open your eyes, and see the browns and greens of the earth, and the light which is the essence of nature. The young need to become aware of this circle of life, and realize that it is possible to experience the beauty and deep meaning which is at the core of our relation to nature.

Albert Hofmann January 11, 1906 – April 29, 2008
R.I.P

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