It's interesting that, despite not necessarily seeing eye-to-eye, me and Vincent of UVS seem to have largely coalesced. This brings to mind Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote,
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of idle minds
This foolishness seems to satisfy the delusionary quest of the minds attached to CERN in their endless pursuit if "new" particles.
Consistency is their aim, within the hermetically sealed illusion of a torus-shaped universe. If the universe were geometrical that might be worth something.
However, it seems much truer to say that,
The illogical borrows from the logical (Corneille) - see Le Mepris, rehsongcycle.com
Closed-house logic is a well-known syndrome, after all. But the symmetries of nature are not stall logical. They are simply powerful opposites and attributes. Sun/moon; prey/predator; night/day;male/female.
Whereas CERN resembles a sterile madhouse of the weakness of acolytes' egos, nature resounds in the strength of fertility. The one represents the detached head; the other the body-in-motion.
A sterile system does not perceive symmetries in nature, it only perceives the madhouse symmetries of an illusory order (the torus or doughnut-shape).
The profound symmetries of the body are revealed in athletics - the original Greek Games. Symmetry produces simplicity and also subtlety; the two are bound together in the mechanics of nature.
Equally simplistically, there is the subject of dirt and cleanliness, which is present in any organism. In human terms, societies adopt rituals of bathing, oiling and fragrance which again are associated with classical antiquity.
Rituals and bodily ceremonies are indicators of the strength, not weakness, of symmetries in organic life.
What that seems to say is that the rituals of society are full of natural symmetries, but they are not necessarily logical. "The illogical borrows from the logical", meaning logic exists inside nature, but it is not what nature is.
Aether, in that sense, is the strength" they" choose to ignore inside their wilful fantasyland of particles physics and insane geometry.
The powerful symmetries of nature enable us to dance with grace and skill. It has been said that Indian classical dancers can invoke stillness. If so, the stillness might have attributes of the powerful flux that enables the experience of living and inevitably dying.
In 1969 film The Sterile Cuckoo, Minnelli's character Pookie and her beau are watching the fall (of leaves)
"The colors are wonderful"
"That's because they're dying"
The goofy film is sad, in that the characters seem out-of-touch both with each other and with the work-man-like environment of conformity in Ivy League institutions.
The resemblances to Ghostworld (prev) are many and varied. Minnelli calls the mainstream fraternity "creeps" and seems to think jocks are bound to be "faggots" (that would never occur in our benighted most modernity).
It's not really fair to the guys who are just trying to have a good time (again like Ghostworld), but a wider malaise permeates both pictures really.
The fact that Pookie may be bigoted makes the story more interesting. No one is perfect; no one is logical unless in the modern madhouse of sterile conformity.
Minnelli subdues her "ishness", mainly meaning the primordial reality of the arch of her throat and all it contains.
The long-view of the story is that we die and joys are short-lived. The other truth occurs when Minnelli strips, and the guy gasps,
"You have a beautiful body, Pookie"
Truisms never change; clichés never die. Beauty and death, whether in the shape of the 60s flic, Jaime Hernandez (prev) or Maeterlinck's Pelleas and Melisande (prev).
All these are powerful truths that slip by the egos of acolytes in their illusory world of pure geometry and logical order.
Logic - and all the other -ologies - are contained in the spontaneity that is natural power, the arch of a throat, of a branch in fall.
Logic is not a culture of a long-standing order. "Nothing to excess" was the Greek mantra. Greek temples are known for their balance and subtle proportions. The microcosm that reflects the larger cosmos.
