Combination of the Two (13)

HB9
”At first there was nothing. Then beaches appeared after the film And God Created Woman. Each was different, funny and unconventional. There was joy, it was a symbol of freedom.. But with this reorganization project, this beach will become monotone when it was so charming. It’s tragic.” (Bardot in DT on demise of St Tropez, 20th July)

If anything smacks of physical fertility in a habitat to match it’s the Bardot of the 50s and 60s (HB9). “Convincing rightness” is the language of the dollar which monetises (numerically) previously pristine landscapes; a compulsion of the (acolyte) head that is most complete in transhumanism.

This is the favoured realm of Musk; an algorithmic habitat where the monetary/numerical have a convincing rightness of straight-lines, hyperloops, speed.

Hyborian Bridge 9 picked-up on Stuart Hameroff of Quantum Consciousness (a transhuman application) and I basically said that from sensual movement (of a worm) you get a powerful symbolism (of action). Of rebirth, of creation from destruction.

Consciousness isn’t a “thing in itself” (numerical quantity); it’s sensual reality, active (Pictorial 46) and from that it’s symbolic. Actually, I was looking up Hameroff online and got instead Dawkins and Branson; just goes to show they’re all the same thing.

Along with publicists like Michael Anissimov, they inhabit a universe of “convincing rightness”, straight-lines and speed. In their universe there is no Bardot of sensual fertile beaches with scuttling crabs.

Sensual movement (of a worm, of the moon) in their universe doesn’t exist’ and so the powerful symbolism of action, of decay and rebirth also doesn’t exist. The dream of the universe; the sinuous serpent of the unconscious weaving between pleasure and reason (cave, treasure Pictorial 1).

“Convincing rightness” is the realm of rational consciousness as opposed to the sensual unconscious (which is reality). The more convincing it gets, the more straight-line, numerical (dollar) hyperlooped speed, the less real is our sensual (free-thinking, irrational) subconscious.

Transhumanism is simply the ultimate face of a modern order that destroys primordial shape. The shape that is the simple and communal presence of a Hyborian city-state. Just as the 14^th century chansons of Lescurel have the stately bearing of communal settings of grace and distinction, so the clamour and throng of a city-state are its distinctive bearing.

What is this living presence? It is something disordered and irrational, the smell of sea breezes, the sound of sea shanties, lusty voices raised by the decaying wharves.

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A symbol of freedom is not order, and particularly not a competitive one. An order where trade is “convincingly right” in dollar, numerical terms of perspective and speed; the order of the (acolyte) head where the immaterial becomes real (algorithms) and fact becomes fiction.

Their cold-blooded compulsion of a numerical order – irrespective of physical desirability, irrespective of the universe as it was known in the Middle Ages – Newton Combination of the Two (6) – irrespective of physical reality (rotation of Earth against the cosmos).

This is where it gets quite thorny, since Newton was known as a physicist (originally Natural Philosophy). Yet optics (“Opticks”) is the study of the immaterial (light) and the end-product of that line of research is Relativity (to the sun).

That entire branch of physics is induced from Newton’s research into light (C6), which seems to be why the universe is no longer deduced from the general – the physical reality of moon and stars and planets – but induced from what is really the immaterial (Newton’s knives C5).

This is why it seems quite reasonable to say an induced universe is sorcerous, and parallel to the physically desirable one. Since so much of physics is Newtonian, it is certainly not as material as “they” (and Madonna) would have us think! One ends up with transhumanism and Anissimov’s “accelerating future”, which is basically quantum physics (numerical) and not physical reality, which is the sensual grace of the human habitation – the Hyborian city-state.

The numerical compulsion of the mind that looks at a “convincing rightness” (of the sun) is actually the end-product of “accelerating future”; quantum consciousness (which doesn’t exist) and the black hole of immateriality (Hyborian Bridge 56). As a side-note, I attended a meeting of self-employed types and got reels of figures recited by rote; what universe is that? The modern.

These compulsions work irrespective of primordial rhythm, primordial shape, which are the basic fabric of the universe and of our unconscious (Pictorial 1). The physical universe; strong and simple but also subtle since without the simplicity (shape) the complex whole will just be complex and not graceful and sure, like the seaborne Valeria.

(after BWS)