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Rotation is a Man on the Run

from Genetic Engines by Michael Edwards

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The rotation method is a concept used by the philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in Either/Or to describe the mechanism used by higher level aesthetes in order to avoid boredom. The method is an essential hedonistic aspect of the aesthetic way of life.

The rotation method, Kierkegaard argues, would eventually lead aesthetes to a state of despair, because all activities, no matter how unique or new, will eventually become boring:

"I don't feel like doing anything. I don't feel like riding – the motion is too powerful; I don't feel like walking – it is too tiring; I don't feel like lying down, for either I have to stay down, and I don't feel like doing that or I would have to get up again, and I don't feel like doing that, either. Summa Summarum: I don't feel like doing anything." – Either/Or, p. 4

The aesthete, Kierkegaard predicts, realizing and responding to the futility of one's hedonistic finite aims, will yearn to experience a more meaningful life.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotation_method

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Fire wakes me licking my arms
casting monsters behind my form
I'm hiding out past the docks in the trees
praying my scent doesn't carry in the breeze
in the breeze, in the breeze...

I made it to the city
made a name for myself
call me Isaac Andrew Hamilton
call me John Alexander Smith
call me anything that you wish
that you wish, that you wish...

I've got an alibi
just gotta tell some lies

As long as I can forget what I know
I've no idea how far knowing goes
through the trails down the river to the sea
I'd give anything to stop being me
Even me, even me...

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from Genetic Engines, released January 7, 2011

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