They are
saying to one another: Let us make an end
Of those ill-smelling tribes of men, these frogs that can't jump,
These cocks that can't crow
These pigs that can't grunt
This flesh that smells
These words that are all flat
These money vermin.
These white men, and red men, and yellow men, and brown men, and black men
That are neither white, nor red, nor yellow, nor brown, nor black
But everyone of them dirtyish.
Let us have a spring cleaning in the world.
For men upon the body of the earth are like lice,
Devouring the earth into sores.
This is what stars and sun and earth and moon and winds and rain
Are discussing with one another; they are making ready to start.
Of those ill-smelling tribes of men, these frogs that can't jump,
These cocks that can't crow
These pigs that can't grunt
This flesh that smells
These words that are all flat
These money vermin.
These white men, and red men, and yellow men, and brown men, and black men
That are neither white, nor red, nor yellow, nor brown, nor black
But everyone of them dirtyish.
Let us have a spring cleaning in the world.
For men upon the body of the earth are like lice,
Devouring the earth into sores.
This is what stars and sun and earth and moon and winds and rain
Are discussing with one another; they are making ready to start.
(Quetzancoatl Looks Down on Mexico,
chapter XVI)
American Flagg! #5
Physical and
racial reality fizz with exciting contrasts. This must be why Chaykin’s Flagg
reads like a 20s throwback - as it does stylistically - so this is one more
similarity to The Plumed Serpent.
In fact, this
brings in yet another similarity
'I said: Go thy way, for the dust of
earth is in thy eyes and on thy lips. For me the serpent of middle-earth sleeps
in my loins and my belly, the bird of the outer air perches on my brow and
sweeps her bill across my breast. But I, I am lord of two ways. I am master of
up and down. I am as a man who is a new man, with new limbs and life, and the
light of the Morning Star in his eyes. Lo! I am I! The lord of both ways. Thou
wert lord of the one way. Now it leads thee to the sleep. Farewell!
'So Jesus went on towards the sleep.
And Mary the Mother of Sorrows lay down on the bed of the white moon, weary
beyond any more tears.
'And I, I am on the threshold. I am
stepping across the border. I am Quetzalcoatl, lord of both ways, star between
day and the dark.' (chapter
XV)
Venus, the
Morning Star, signpost of the Earth-spin, the eternal cycle of the seasons and
the rains on the plains (of Spain and Mexico). Quetzalcoatl is not a “linear,
progressive” god, like it seems Christianity may have become (prev.) He looks
two ways, or you could say to the past as well as to the future.
Often looking to
the past gives a clue to the present and future. This was surely Chaykin’s
motivation for using hair and fashion from the 20s. The flapper zest gives a
devilish sophistication to the future milieu.
It also seems to
be a good way of instilling charisma in many of the characters – women and men
– another theme of The Plumed Serpent.
Yes, sexy
sophistication – male or female – and a degree of racial stereotyping (a la CC
Beck Pictorial 63) are good counters to a modern order of basic
uniformity regardless of race or place (east, west, north, south).
The underlying
reason for this is the dollar is the symbol of straight-lines. Any country
which advances adopts straight lines; so China is rapidly uprooting independent
peasantry and retransplanting into apartment blocks.
Pictorial 58
The vital and
fluid, fiery lines of traditional landscape painting; Tao and the Chinese
Dragon. What “they” term advance is simply an illusion of straight-lines. This
makes it very convincing and a readymade resource for technology (the electric
green future Tales of Faith 2 Babcock Ranch)
The vital and
the fluid and the fiery are the physical as well as the racial reality of life
on Earth (under the stars above, natch.) You only have to look at any bit of
electioneering, and it’s all the same dollar bill.
Pete
Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, accused Mrs Warren of having a
“multitrillion dollar hole” in her plan, making thecountry “even more
polarised” and wanting to engage in “infinite partisan combat.”
Other
candidates criticized Mrs Warren over her plan for a “wealth tax” of 2 per cent
on individual income over $50 million. (DT)
I could have
picked Boris Johnson – it’s all numbers in our system of dollar hegemony. But
the dollar is physically zero. It has no physical reality (not even gold – see Hyborian
Bridge 6) The only reality it represents is the illusion of straight-line
advance (into the sun – Icarus). This makes it convincing to acolytes.
Politicians
speak the language of acolytes extremely glibly – either because they’re
genuine believers or they’re just glib! The language says we are in a
perspective illusion of straight-lines which is symbolised by the dollar
(capital).
Back in Hyborian Bridge 6 you see that originally (16th
century) money was used to exchange goods – mercantilism. The money symbolised
the exchange of goods. In other words, the value being exchanged was in the
goods: the silks, fruits, spices.
The value was
not in the money; money was only a symbol. Only goods have proportion and
beauty; money has very little. But nowadays, money does have value in that it
symbolises straight-line advance (of the wormdollar Pictorial 50/2)
The value of
straight-line advance is that it is an illusion that is convincing through the
language of acolytes. Straight lines are conducive to techniques aimed straight
at the head. The problem is, straight lines represent cities. This goes back to
ancient Rome (Hyborian Bridge 2) and their cities that were laid out in
grid patterns (as are US ones generally). The same applies to other ancient
cities.
I was reading
about Funan in Cambodia that about 700 AD was established as an Indo city-state
with strong trading routes to the coast. The Hindu enclave sent emissaries to
China and may have facilitated the spread of Buddhism. The city was laid out as
a grid; but of course a city is just one side of the case. The other is the
geography, wild life and plant life.
If you look at
one of the EC sci fi by Wood or Williamson, you often see edifices in savage
locations and that is exactly the case with ancient cities.
Same for Mesoamerican
settings. The savage truth is that savagery is the innate state of nature –
paraphrasing Howard. Savagery is strong and vibrant with the lifecycle of
countless things. The savage dynamism of such ancient kingdoms can always be
linked with fascism to those “ill smelling lice” of the modern persuasion (see Pictorial
70 on American Flagg!)
Human beliefs
are not the beliefs of the city – which is a type of illusion. They are beliefs
that reconcile the savagery of narural lifecycles. Not all beasts are savage;
some are humble. Flowers are gay; bees are joyful addicts.
Beliefs reflect
an unconscious sense of destiny beyond order and beyond human law. At the end
of Hyborian Bridge 6 is the belief of Kukulkan as a cosmic cycle, which
is not a belief in the stock-exchange as a human destiny!
“Stock-exchange”
means trading in money, while originally it meant trading in goods; this is the
illusory reality that has no reality because money is valueless. Its only value
is as a symbol of straight-line progress.
This “value” is
then sold by acolytes (politicians) even though it has no savage values of
land, water, wind, rain. Natural strength and natural justice outside of the
cities of Man.