In the scene
from Gods in Chaos where Choublanc abdicates in favour of
Nikopol, the feral pet Gogol draws blood in an unprovoked attack on the
governor’s tattooed visage. This is what unruly physicality has to say to the
pomposity of dictatorial minds!
The dictatorial
mind molds in its own image the resplendent planet of archaic vintage, which in
our era is the language of the wormdollar. The dollar represents competitive
order of perspective (sun).
You guys in
America probably know that Brexit has been going on for awhile now. I just saw
in DT Yanis Veroufakis – ex Greek finance minister and now
running MeRA25 a new Greek party – has a lot to say on the matter. Yanis is so
typical of the academics who are seduced by a perspective reality of the dollar
(or Euro) because the head itself is a perspective system (electromagnetism C4,
5)
Our reality of
pure order is bound to seduce heads which admire logical argument, but it is
pure illusion. Appearances are very convincing BECAUSE it is a perspective
illusion. The physical reality is that Earth faces the cosmos of stars and
planets. Artemis, huntress of the moon; also the capricious god Dionysus and
satyrs of the wooded groves.
It’s like a
vicious circle since the more convincing our illusion of perspective – the more
hyperloops, drones, speed – the more convinced are the heads who babble away in
their illusions of the (hubristic) mind.
All this can be
torn asunder with sheer physicality, as Gogol does to Choublanc. The unruly and
the Earthbound reclaim the planet of myth, the one that Howard took to
atavistic heights of blood and wanderlust.
The lifestyle is
unruly, the physicality hits you. If you look at this photo you could be
forgiven for thinking it’s some Indian game reserve instead of a rubbish dump!
"ragpicker" in Gauhati
Scavengers
relish rubbish and their activity is the intrusion of nature that is strong and
free. The scene you see is ruled by nature and not by the wormdollar. I’m not
saying it’s cool, just that it’s a freedom of unruly physique and vagrant
psyche. In other words, it’s not an order (diktat) of the head; it’s a freedom
(physical) of the body, and so has the strength of activity.
Where you have
freedom of activity (Man, animal, plant) there is a primeval rhythm that
connects things, an irrational crowding, standing around and surveying the
scene, flapping, scrabbling, hunting for trinkets.
Where the head
is running things (as Modi might in India) the first things you get are
perspective and hygiene (tidiness). Instead of animals wandering around (holy
cows), birds flapping, humans pottering you would tend to get rational indices;
numbers indicating scales and grades and levels of progress.
I quoted Grace
Slick in Hyborian Bridge 62/1 on the “anal-compulsive” attachment to
numbers (Lindsay Anderson also makes a similar reference in O Lucky Man Alternates
4). Whereas numbers in a physical world are usually irrelevant – with all
the irrational crowding on Indian trains – in a perspective world numbers
become attached to the compulsive head.
Because this
universe is not physical – freely active – numbers are its compulsion, whether
or not it is physically desirable. Hence Slick’s comment is very applicable. The
freedom of the body to be active is basic to human desire. Here’s a picture I
found of 30s hikers that might be seen to be slightly Enid Blyton, but it
struck me there is a strong affinity to Howard
stylised
realism, Hikers by James Walker Tucker
Female figures
in loose garments pursuing outdoor activities with vigour and resolve;
consulting a chart with close attention to detail in their quest for the
wizard’s tomb (or whatever). It’s a picture of physical and intellectual
freedom modernity has lost sight of.
Without the
physical freedom the psyche cannot emanate (Blavatsky, prev), and remains
stultified by the perspective order of countless acolytes. Note that the
picture has decisive detail fairly irrespective of distance giving a sort of
flattened perspective which has a sort of psychic energy – compare with BWS
prints Hyborian Bridge 21.