04-27-2022, 01:57 PM
(04-27-2022, 05:32 AM)Atma Wrote: That we are here discussing re-enactment could be seen as a point of "causal novelty", if you will, fed by many re-enactment events, and in the grander scale of assembly, is now a source point for another explosion of novelty spokes bursting outward. This very post is producing novelty, within this seemingly small context of "a thread", in the larger context of "this forum", from which much novelty is created, but not without having first come from the imagination of a woman in Kentucky, who may have been doing her own re-enactment of something when the thought arose. An interest in re-enactment might be nestled in the very creation of this forum.
Damn this is a great point...
It's almost like the real question is, where does "history" end and "reenactment" begin??
I think it's also important to consider WHAT is being reenacted. The most "karmically" obvious is war/battle reenactment. It's not hard to understand how something that involved a lot of lives being cut short requires a karmic payment.
The purpose behind reenactment, the lure and the draw that people feel in their souls... it's a human tendency to understand things more deeply, to do things justice, to offer remembrance and honor, to romanticize and enjoy that rapturous feeling of being taken to another time.
If time is just an illusion, then does it really matter if someone spends a great deal of their life participating in reenactment?
Is reenactment by an organization of people meant to evoke a past time in an effort to change the present?
Imitation is the highest form of flattery... there are micro examples of historical reenactment that we can see in our own lives every day. Take for example when I was a kid in the 2000s, I was obsessed with the 1970s. Through the allure and the fixation, I feel that I experienced a HEIGHTENED and IMPROVED version of what the '70s may have been (don't know, wasn't there). At the time, I was told by people who actually were alive in the '70s that they were boring and shite. But in my own 'reenactment' experience, that wasn't the case at all. So what was better... the "original" 1970s, or my version of it? Well, for me, the answer is clear. My recreation was better.
If eras of time are just 'vibes' influenced by unseen forces, energies, and alignments of the gears/wheels of the matrix machine, then perhaps reenactment is indeed a process of refinement.
