The flying saucer shape building is called the Buzludzha Monument.
Buzludzha is a historical peak in the Central Stara Planina, Bulgaria and is 1441 metres high. In 1868 it was the place of the final battle between Bulgarian rebels led by Hadji Dimitar and Stefan Karadzha and the Turks. In 1891 the socialists led by Dimitar Blagoev assembled secretly in the area to form an organised socialist movement. In honour of this act was built the Buzludzha Monument, one of the symbols of the socialism in Bulgaria. The building is now abandoned but still stands alone in the most beautiful landscape.
Buzludzha is a historical peak in the Central Stara Planina, Bulgaria and is 1441 metres high. In 1868 it was the place of the final battle between Bulgarian rebels led by Hadji Dimitar and Stefan Karadzha and the Turks. In 1891 the socialists led by Dimitar Blagoev assembled secretly in the area to form an organised socialist movement. In honour of this act was built the Buzludzha Monument, one of the symbols of the socialism in Bulgaria. The building is now abandoned but still stands alone in the most beautiful landscape.
IN TIMES OF DESERT
To our parents, civilisation offered houses in the suburbs, computers, and automobiles.
And civilisation delivered. To the children of these workers, civilisation offered life on the moon, artificial intelligence, endless peace. All of which have failed to emerge. This world offers nothing to us: no meaningful work, no rest, no future – only fear.
And civilisation delivered. To the children of these workers, civilisation offered life on the moon, artificial intelligence, endless peace. All of which have failed to emerge. This world offers nothing to us: no meaningful work, no rest, no future – only fear.
The apocalypse is not happening in the future,
it is happening NOW.
The apocalypse is not happening in the future,
it is happening NOW.
It is not the result of our personal sins and
it is not the “collective responsibility of humanity”.
Climate change (or God, or whatever)
will not bring about the apocalypse.
The apocalypse began with the advent of our
current form of life based on industrial
there is no alternative to this form of
life,
that the way we live in this present
moment is simply a reflection of the way
things are.
Implicit in this common-sense
is the not-so-hidden assumption that the
present will extend indefinitely into the
future,
which both provides a measure
of comfort as well as the feeling of
imprisonment.
In times of crisis, a space of freedom returns,
and the possibility of a rupture with the present opens.
History,
long banished to dreary scholastic books,
returns to us fresh and alive.
To push away that which is closest to us, our
very form of life, and see it objectively
– this might seem impossible.
Yet it is not:
the first step is to give our form of
life a name, to identify it as something
finite in time and space, so capable of
ending.
This perpetual present that has
its only favor being the certainty of its
own destruction has a name:
capitalism.
IN TIMES OF DESERT I
(Video )
it is happening NOW.
It is not the result of our personal sins and
it is not the “collective responsibility of humanity”.
Climate change (or God, or whatever)
will not bring about the apocalypse.
The apocalypse began with the advent of our
current form of life based on industrial
production.
It is easy to assume that there is no alternative to this form of
life,
that the way we live in this present
moment is simply a reflection of the way
things are.
Implicit in this common-sense
is the not-so-hidden assumption that the
present will extend indefinitely into the
future,
which both provides a measure
of comfort as well as the feeling of
imprisonment.
In times of crisis, a space of freedom returns,
and the possibility of a rupture with the present opens.
History,
long banished to dreary scholastic books,
returns to us fresh and alive.
To push away that which is closest to us, our
very form of life, and see it objectively
– this might seem impossible.
Yet it is not:
the first step is to give our form of
life a name, to identify it as something
finite in time and space, so capable of
ending.
This perpetual present that has
its only favor being the certainty of its
own destruction has a name:
capitalism.
IN TIMES OF DESERT I
(Video )
