Having just got 3 Pam Grier Blaxploitation flics from the 70s, there's a direct lead-in to the formidable power of female fertility.
There's the weaving silhouette intro to Foxy Brown; a spicy bit of soul to die for (literally). There are 2 all-female action scenes. From Coffy, a party-time fight scene where Grier stuffs all the white chicks like a cuckoo in its nest.
From Black Mama, White Mama set on a Caribbean island with an all-female prison, the grime and stench of a jungle trip is washed away in a group shower scene.
One of the guards is lesbian and masturbates through a peep-hole. This is still a very good visual sign of the fragrant fertility on display in all its squalid beauty.
In our seemingly prudish modernity, the sexual aspect of communal.living is sadly lacking, for all talk of a "dark net."
All.this is slightly reminiscent of Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's Lost Girls, which seeks to reclaim pornography from the industrial scale.
Again, if we're talking springiness allied to sexuality, Grier has it in spades. She doesn't just wait for the man in a "me too" moment (yawn), she digs in and grabs his manhood. All they can do is look surprised!
Her intonation is second to nun. She says "motherfucker" exactly as it should be said (emphasizing third syllable). Accept no imitations.
These are called Blaxploitation films, but there is more than a passing resemblance to the Black Power movement of those times too. In Foxy Brown, Grier invokes the aid of a community council of brothers.
The milieu has a type of niche security that could easily be likened to a niche in nature. This is the way communes work if allowed spontaneity; before the sterile state drafts federal legislation.
I don't want to get too political about it, so choose to stick with the basic facts of blackness. The sleek décor; the shit-talk on the streets; the fairly fertile and feminine-oriented settings.
Without getting unduly left/right, we live in a society of the head. The detached head is not only prudish but tends to ignore the rampant fertility that exists in natural communes (see Lloyd Price, prev.)
After all, the Civil Rights era was neither left nor right, it was a federal political era of legislation. Niche security and fertility are both visible in these 70s films and invisible on today's societies.
A lot of what constitutes black power is to do with bodies and fertility with antecedents of tribal lore. The powerful effect if this is seen in the recent Black Panther film of a futuristic African milieu.
It's pointless saying that blacks should be "like whites" when that weakens their natural strengths. In Black Mama, White Mama, Grier is chained to Margaret Markov as punishment. The two are enemies but they buddy along despite everything.
These things are possible because low-level feuding creates a drama that enables differences to he resolved (see Rab Nesbit on rehsongcycle, currently suspended.)
That was also seen in High School Musical (prev) since all of this has a certain spontaneity. This is what federal intervention kills - left, right or in between (see prev on Detroit maintaining a strong milieu despite nonintervention setbacks.)
The current Republican favorite Tim Scott has been called an Uncle Tom and, while not condoning, it's easy to see why. Black power is communal power of security and a certain justice. It's not perfect but it does have things the mainstream system doesn't.
Niche security and sleek fertility. The essential point is that these are fairly spontaneous. Man's culture arises fro..nature and the power of nature, not the detached heads of acolytes of dead sorcerers of science and number.
For example, a fishing port only exists if the fish of the sea breed. With fertility comes an active life of hunting and fishing. The physical activity is allied to the lighter psyche (see endorphins, prev.) The community thrives through song and dance.
Why are modern societies so heavy? From the lack of a physical reality that has to be allied to the psyche. Fertility is a fundamental component of this reality. It has its squalid side (see prev on Aristophanes) and where there is filth there is fertility. Compost decays and cleans through strength. The nymphs and dryads enchant the streams.
Modernism convinces the ego with "facts" of number and algorithm. The mirror or illusions "they" want us to inhabit. It is a trap of weakness. Let the Russians follow Putin if they wish. Americans are supposedly free to choose different with the spontaneity of independent thought and action.
