From the
preceding, it seems obvious that science approaches information – since we are
in the information age – and in the process loses story. Story is not
information, it is action and action comes from movement and line (shape).
That shape is,
of course, the human figure
Vitruvian Man
In the
Renaissance science was based on the human figure, and had the moral basis of
fleshly form. As science drifts away into the digital zone, it becomes more
like a negative moral force, akin to the wholly immoral Thoth Amon.
If there is no
moral story, the obvious step is to invent a story for devious immoral purposes
(of ego-lust). Then story “they” invent is that everything is the product of
technique. So that, by advance, one could approach human perfection.
If you go back
to Denizens of the Netherworld 2
there is a discussion of BWS’s influence on Rob Leifeld. His expressionist
“broken line” approach..
..where it says
that technique and expression are two different things: you have to forget one
to do the other (Bruce Lee’s Jeet Kune Do). Expression is something that
happens, while technique is something that’s planned.
What can’t be
planned is expressed, and this applies to the dynamically developing anatomy of
a foetus in the womb. The reason this is so is that every part of the body is
dynamically balanced with every other part; one cannot exist without all the
others. The quality of this is dance and, as noted previously, it has a cartoon
simplicity ().
This has to be
the origin of the human story, since without the simplicity there would be no
sensual experience of the virile, the feminine. Simplicity has to be the
counter to information, since information can only be complex.
So, the
simplicity we achieve in active life can’t possibly be information; it can only
be story. The story is moral – for the reasons outlined previously – while the
invented story of the Thoth Amon clones is a negative moral force.
Well, this
applies to quite a lot of things! Obviously, a dance is not competitive or
evolutionary, since it just happens. Hence, any theory of competitive evolution
can only apply outside of this dance. But, what is all life is a dance? It’s an
open question.
Then there’s the
question of death. Information can’t die, but a dance can stop. Following death
is the cycle of destruction and creation (another dance?)
If all things
dance by just happening, it makes the investigation of elementary particles look
like a lost cause. Something that happens is not coherent information. It’s not
even a story if it happens in a vacuum.
Whereas modern
science creates information with hygienic techniques (prev), the cycle of destruction
and creation is what just happens. The result in the field is sweet smelling
compost and what you might call the triumphant worm. In the field the rule is
let it dry (Buffy St Marie quote Hyborian Bridge 70) since things rot
and the process itself is strengthening, the rich loam, the clean smell of pure
strength (see Laurens van der Post).
Scientific
information is very beholden to techniques like microscopy (lenses HB56) and
there’s quite a question to ask. It is: does the information appeal to the
scientific mind, and is that why it becomes established orthodoxy? (see Francis
Bacon “Idol of the Den”).
What I really
mean is that the information is complex, not simple. The most blatant example
is DNA, which is visible through X-ray diffraction. The problem is that DNA
becomes (more) real when we enter a parallel reality run by DNA (and AI). It’s
not so much a case of fact or fiction as which reality you choose to occupy.
Of course,
strength comes from the Earth, and the genuinely moral human figure in a
landscape of power. Outside of scientific equipment and technique is the
unpalatable truth that living things are simple. They have to be because they
develop dynamically – and this is where it helps to go back to Bruce Lee (The Big Pretence).
In Artist of
Life he is at pains to say that there is no routine when in the midst of a
fight. Yes, one trains at routine, but in a fight one must be flexible. One
cannot think in a routine way and be in-the-moment (in time).
To be flexible
is to just instantly react. The training then kicks-in. He speaks of “a war
between a robot and a wild beast”. The two are totally separate; one forgets
then robot to become the beast. In the same way, DNA is a code, it is not the
beast. That is the expression of movement and line that is the shape, that has
story (myth).
The two are
totally separate and there’s no connection apart from the fact they are both in
the same place; but one is the robot, the other is the beast.
So, to divide
the two out is not to arrive at truth, it is to arrive at a lie. The lie is
that technique will lead to perfection; so this leads to another question.
Why has the
Great Public swallowed this lie? I guess you can guess! The organs of media
speak for the acolytes of sorcerers with one voice. Leonardo da Vinci is the
apex of the Renaissance and it’s clear he’s aiming at cosmic simplicity.
