If, then, the physical rhythms of a spontaneous area are suppressed (by acolytes of the mirror of illusions), what is the end product?
If the anarchic vulgarity of physical-social situations is crushed, what do we get? We get half-truths, since this is where
ARE FRIENDS ELECTRIC (Numan)
is bound to lead.
In a universe of electrical appliances for a start we see the truth since, as Jean-Luc Godard has said, "Film is truth 27 times a second."
And we get illusion, since it's also true that "film is illusion 27 times a second."
Godard happens to be one of the greatest film directors of all.time and a born storyteller of renown. Meaning we get the images he imagines before committing them.to the screen.
So much for psychic truth and physical realism, but illusions do not necessarily need either.
Godard is a magician of the camera which is his truth, echoing his immersion in US myth and pulp; we get "their" truth which is a psychic vacuum of empty ego.
The half- truth is that our friends ARE electric, when they are actually physical and psychic as well. It's an inductive universe of reflections in light (Newton C4-C6). Induction itself is the mirror of illusions, in that the analysis of light enters a world of geometry and relativity.
This is the world we enter that has more and more duplicates. It's inevitable that that trend will continue with acolytes essentially in control. What is the result?
Blatantly, the expansion of word-count! The latest example of this is the pod-cast. R. Crumb, who gives the very odd interview, foresaw this deluge on the cover of
TCJ #121 1988
I, personally, refuse to watch any podcast no matter who appears. Word-count is bound to endlessly enlarge without a coherent storyline.
I, personally, am a great supporter of comic books since they cannot duplicate reality with the ease of a camera. They have to invent things. The artist has to study the body and get immersed in the rhythms of curvaceous line.
Apart from that, as Frank Miller has said, to get pace in film you just point the camera at action; in a comic the pacing has to be created.
Duplication (by camera) is electrical reality and needs a master creator like Godard to generate physical and psychic realism (the documentary style echoed by the British in the 70s).
Without the creative truth the only thing it can generate is word-count. Man evolved in caves, it seems, and these are psychic vistas where the flames dance and impact physically on the brain. See The Northern Shaman, prev.
What are houses and temples but caves by another name? The Japanese still.keep domestic shrines in their abodes, primitive artefacts of psychic origin.
Electricity is fire without flame, and it's the flame which impacts on the brain. The eternal flame of Rome.
A flame symbolises psychic existence and in a sense the religious. The flames of belief in countries like Iran, India, Turkey support a strength of age-old symmetries that have the realism of storytelling.
A psychic universe is not logical and can be anarchic. No one relishes conflicting situations, but the flip side to that is Saudi Arabia's Neom City, a pure mirage of the desert.
Where there are psychic differences there will.be conflicting interests, but we in the west should recognize that a land without differences is not simply inert but an illusion.
It is this illusion that is the half- truth. Where the strength of organic squalor is relegated to fantasy. I mean, why is there squalor in these Hyborian settings we know and love? Because there is no imposition of order on situations where spontaneity and anarchy exist. That is, situations of physical and psychic strength. Despite what "they" may say, exposure to pathogens is good and strengthens or triggers immune reactions. The physical and the psyche are tricky to disentangle.
It's the difference between romantic Shanghai and modern Shanghai (see "Dead Pigs"). Or Babcock Ranch in America (prev.) Where there is romance there is strength and psychic anarchy. In modern America neither Biden nor Trump (nor Obama) have an anarchic bone in their body; their differences don't seem so great apart from.the purely monetary ones.
The illusion ties-into number (algorithms) or the dual-tone of ones and zeros. The dual-tone appears as endless reflections that exist much like the descriptions in Jirel Meets Magic (prev.) There appears much there, but it is a type of verbal illusion.
Without the flames of psychic strength and physical-social realism we enter the mirror of illusions where words and number are the products of pure ego. Examples are too numerous (and boring) to mention.
