YES there is a point of view which visualizing the meaning, absorbing through the skin 600 years or more or less “ reliable chronicles” - items, objects, ephemera academics properly called history - mind stuff then based upon mostly what survives, and what we conjecture at any given time about it, and so forth, anecdotes or writings transcribed by Satirists or partisans or JOURNALISTS, now and then others able to have an audience, perspectives straight outta our collective ghetto past,.
Unsurprisingly each of us arrives at a certain conclusions to take to heart.
Usually the conclusion is unforgivingly impressed like a seal on clay. The mute clay is manhandled and put to use for purposes beyond the dull reason of clay’s wildest dreams wildest dreams. In exchange the all too sentient clay finds MEANING in being stamped. “My COG behavior and COG existence guarantees ….(a brief moment, an eye blink is longer) and the human swells with pride. Guarantees X, Y, Z and-always has always will. Both the grapevine, my existent culture, and my faith assure me the Bourgeois life is the happy in-between. I own my burial. My will is made. I live as a Living Trust upon retirement.
Then the fear walks into the door.
The “Great Doubt.”
18 and Valedictorian with bright future or 68 and retired, children, assets, purpose and meaning: then Corona Virus and then Ukraine.
There was, no matter our politics, our political phantasms, our conclusions and judgements, a time when the Surrealists were right.
Certain sentiments surface like car commercials on TV.
“ The Realistic attitude is the fruit of mediocrity, hatred, and creeping conceit. It is from her that the books that insult intelligence are born. ”
The incurable mania of reducing the unknown to the known, to the classifiable, only serves to numb brains.”
“Nowadays, the methods of logic only serve to solve secondary problems.”
“The extreme difference of importance which, in the eyes of the ordinary observer, has the events of waking and those of sleep has always filled me with astonishment. … Perhaps my dream of last night went on the night before, and continue with meritorious rigor next night. ”
“Let us say it once and for all: the wonder is always beautiful; any kind of wonderful is beautiful, only wonderful is beautiful. … From an early age children are separated from the marvelous, so that when they grow up, they no longer have a virginity of mind that allows them to enjoy extreme pleasure in reading a children’s story. ”
“May the day come when poetry decrees the end of money and alone breaks the bread from heaven on earth.”
“In honor of Guillaume Apollinaire , Soulpault and I gave the name of” surrealism “to the new mode of expression that we had at our disposal and that we were anxious to put within the reach of our friends”
“Surrealism does not allow those who consecrate it, abandon it when they feel like doing it. It acts on the mind as the narcotics and many others of related epochs
“The mind that plunges into surrealism revives, with exaltation, the best part of its childhood.”
“Imagination dear, what I especially love in you is not to forgive.”
“Only what exalts me is still the only word: freedom. I consider it appropriate to maintain, indefinitely, the old human fanaticism.”
Breton
A Surrealist manifesto was written by Breton and published in 1924 as a booklet (Editions du Sagittaire). The document defines Surrealism as:
Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express — verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner — the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.
The text includes numerous examples of the applications of Surrealism to poetry and literature, but makes it clear that its basic tenets can be applied to any circumstance of life; not merely restricted to the artistic realm. The importance of the dream as a reservoir of Surrealist inspiration is also highlighted.
https://www.hisour.com/surrealist-manifesto-35159/amp/