The “demon world” isn’t the demon world; not originally anyway. It’s the world of memory; of individual and cultural remembrance. Its landscape is full of old and significant things. It was largely taken over by Gwi-ma (at root, a recursive shame-trauma loop) due to how many shameful traumatic memories humans have generated.
But putting up the Golden Honmoon turns out to be a bad idea, because it cuts people off from memory and history. On the “demon world” side, the demons are indeed starving: but on the Earthly side, the humans are, too: starving for meaning, as they fall into anomie, alienation, numbness, rootlessness, and increasingly vapid lyrics.
Our kkachi horangi (tiger and magpie) friends show up mangy and tattered …
Here’s a sequel hook:
The “demon world” isn’t the demon world; not originally anyway. It’s the world of memory; of individual and cultural remembrance. Its landscape is full of old and significant things. It was largely taken over by Gwi-ma (at root, a recursive shame-trauma loop) due to how many shameful traumatic memories humans have generated.
But putting up the Golden Honmoon turns out to be a bad idea, because it cuts people off from memory and history. On the “demon world” side, the demons are indeed starving: but on the Earthly side, the humans are, too: starving for meaning, as they fall into anomie, alienation, numbness, rootlessness, and increasingly vapid lyrics.
Our kkachi horangi (tiger and magpie) friends show up mangy and tattered …