“Attention!”—proclaimed the spark as Man first struck sharp flint to the rocks of the Earth. From this point, the spirit of Promethean Fire captured all aspects of man. Equally, driving those fallen parts of his existence along with his most transcendent triumphs. The heat of knowledge spilled forth from the flames, allowing man to project his intentional dominating will upon the universe which was laid bare at his grubby feet.
Promethean Fire is the attention unique to man. Cast beyond himself and his loins through the propagation of ideas. Aesthetic in man’s apprehension of beauty and confused through the mechanistic hijacking of man’s will.
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