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' == Surranachronism

The First Surrealist Manifesto was published in 1924 with the aim of going beyond the narrow rationalism, logic and belief in progress of the middle class that had led, in the opinion of Breton and other founders, to the First World War. In the view of Surranachronists, more than 85 years later, this narrow rationalism is no longer the overriding ideology of the middle class in the 21st century. This ideology may instead be defined as anachronism. Surranachronism asserts that the overriding experience of human beings in the Twenty-First Century is to be forced to live in the present as a compact series of ghostings, recurrences, recuperations and echoes of previous epochs and places, because the person is neither firmly rooted in his own instant (that ever-increasingly comes to meld with and resemble all the others) nor engages with nor comprehends the whole society in its historical unfolding. An obvious symptom of this is the recrudescence of nostalgia, the continual recycling of the same songs, periods, epochs, the inability to make even the slightest change that is not in the direction of self-repetition of the same solutions.