Why Dark Academia Is The Modern Renaissance

For the last two days I've been thinking about something that was quite interesting and it made sense to me to make a video about it because I have some beautiful images to show you some interesting things that Janna had. captured sitting in front of this church and there's like music playing there, it could be a chelan but I'm not sure, so a quick summary he stayed at Jay's apartment with his girlfriend Echo and yesterday we went to the contemplation garden after all. The whole time I was there and the whole bus ride, I was thinking about this idea of ​​revival, so to speak, because back in the 14th century there was the idea or the concept of Studia Romanidades or this, you know, this study of the humanities. which reemerged around the 14th century and which directly affected the rest of history and Renaissance literature was directly affected by these efforts to recover ancient texts, for example, the quintillions of ethical texts, for example, ancient texts such as the Iliad of Homer and the apparitions of the Odyssey, comedies, the tragedies of Seneca, all of these.

Ancient texts throughout the 14th century through the 16th century are having this kind of resurgence, you know, everything from the original Latin texts to the scripts of plays from a certain place. There was a real culture in Europe at that time. who recovered and systematically studied the original texts and the art changed forever and if you read any of the literature, for example, the best example, uh Christopher Marla or his contemporary William Shakespeare, which you know everyone knows Shakespeare, in these pieces of literature there has always been this. I know it's a subtle nod to the ancient text, to the Latin base text, and that I like Greek texts, but this revival is what I've been actively thinking about recently because it's a parallel to what's going on with this whole academy thing.

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, you know, the

renaissance

.

It was a while ago that people realized that it's important to go back to the oldest literary texts and you know, over the last few hundred years we've had a lot of amazing developments, you know, we sent people into space, we developed all these crazy devices. and the Internet became a thing and, of course, in those few hundred years, literature had its own little accumulation of various works, but there was never some kind of conscious awareness that we had to go back to the old things for me. This whole obsession with

dark

academia

for me as an optimist.

I think this is really like a parallel to what happened during the

renaissance

. What is entering social discourse right now as a phenomenon is that people are currently obsessed with the aesthetics of old things. but then you know, literature filters through there, but right now it's mainly about aesthetics, but I feel like if we give this a few decades, for example, to filter through, because this idea of ​​digging into texts older because it already exists this is just the superficial manifestation this is just the beginning of everything right now it's about clothes the dark sweater big old and dusty libraries with the passage of time because these texts, for example, you like shakespeare like homer if you like charles dickens if like some even older stuff, like if you really want to go back to the original sources because this phenomenon had already entered the public consciousness over time, these texts will become more and more ubiquitous, you will see these little pockets of community that are are going to stop talking about Byron are going to start talking about how they loved Keats, although they may not have a perfect understanding or interpretation of those texts, however, there are still more people reading and that is really well, he's kind. sort of like when you were younger maybe you read like a Charles Dickens novel because your teacher made you read it, but years later when you go back to the novel, you realize it was one of the best books I've ever read.

I've ever read, that's what's happening right now with dark

academia

, but on a larger scale it's drawing people to explore classic literature, but right now, because it's such a new phenomenon, a lot of people They are not used to reading classical literature, they do not necessarily have it. the tools to come up with all kinds of erroneous interpretations, all kinds of silly readings, but if we give this time, if we let it brew years later, these readers, new readers who are returning to the classics, I realize that shit, like what I read there, could have been the best thing that ever happened to me.

That book I had high expectations from Charles Dickens, um, and I recently started reading Oliver Twist again because I had this whole thing with Charles Dickens where I regret the expectations and I didn't really think twice about it, but it wasn't until recently that I realized that it was one of the best novels I have read after a few years of letting it sink in, now everything. it makes sense right now you could be sitting there you could be reading hamlet or something you could be reading victor hugo or something you're just like this this is boring like why am I reading this but if you give it a few years from now it will seep into you like You know that river that runs under the bridge and one day something will come to the surface.

You will notice. Wow, that book completely changed me and that's how it is with most classics, so this whole dark academia thing. right now it's kind of an obsession with aesthetics, but because it's an invitation for people to get into the classics because it has so much influence in this highly visual culture, you know, we're very visual creatures right now with instagram with youtube with facebook and We are very visual creatures, so by capturing people's attention and bringing them back to the classics, that's how we know these ancient but still important texts will resurface. This is a very friendly invitation for people to start reading these books, of course.

We're not going to understand it, of course, these elitists you meet at universities are going to yell at us for misunderstanding everything, but if we take our time, if we give it the benefit of the doubt, it will filter down to you and years later you will realize. that Hamlet could have been your favorite play of all time and, as you know, Charles Dickens could have changed your whole life, so that's what I've been thinking about recently. I hope future videos are like this one. The diary removes just my personal ramblings and expect more vlogs because there is a lot going on right now.

I'll probably save that for another video, but there have been some really important developments in my own life recently that I really want. to share with you in the form of vlogs anyway that's all I have for today's video if you liked the video make sure to leave me a like and see you in the next one