So, according to this reporter (P184) the ancient or archaic establishment was a schizophrenic order of church and state, not an order of systematic control such as we are subject to in modernity?
That may be what is implied; this reporter is only human and one would need a celestial perspective to know for sure. In order to reconcile body with mind, schizophrenia could be seen as a loosening of the reins of logic.
As seems now to be more and more apparent, systematic logic curtails the normal expression of the body in terms of a balanced and proportional commune.
Many examples occur to this reporter. From the 70s, there are the Blaxploitation movies with overt Black Power aesthetic and morals (Foxy Brown, prev.) Contrast this with the present practically police-state mentality of control!
The Taliban in Afghanistan are an example of dictatorial control, but their language is not so far removed from that of a typical Latin American regime (say, Brazil). The West has the language of the dictatorial dollar - but aren't the Taliban simply the mirror image of this?
Where the dollar rules at the expense of proportion, the languages of the ego is predominant.
And then we will take the money..the outrageous sums of money you will give us because it also means more wealth for you.. and we will.invest it.
We will.buy your banks. We will buy your schools. We will buy your media. We will buy your politicians. And then, when we have bought all.the rest, we will buy you..because you have taught us that everything has a price. And we are happy to pay.
Then, when we have this influence..we will.use it. We will.make sure that the wrong people..and you know who..no longer have any economic power. We will.not allow them.inside our institutions, because it is important they do not have anywhere to peddle their dangerous, outdated ideas
..Yes, of course there will still be people who hate us..they just simply won't be able to do anything about it any longer.
So as I said..there will be no war..amts
No, not a spokesman from Kabul but Magneto at a Davos dinner in Dawn of X #5!
What is missing from this whole managerial view of human behaviour is the raw physical state that harbors psychic power. The planets in their orbits have it (see Blavatsky, prev); apparently modern Man does not.
The psyche has to be freed of the language of managerial economics for the body to exercise its proportionate expression. Only from ruins, rags and ruffians can revival be reestablished on planet Earth.
Dionysian abandon is an expression of elemental fertility; the language of female fertility is attuned to this domain while the ego of acolytes is not.
The sexual, schizophrenic state of the body is strong and pure and produces strong wine. Weakness is the bane of modernity, which often goes by the name of liberal values.
What the liberals want is more stereotypes, not less.. They want everything a sexless robot, or a wax figure. Same as in Bernini's day when all.the angels had to be sexless, ethereal creatures, you couldn't tell.if they were boys or girls or men. In the Old Testament, those angels were terrible creatures. They came down armed with fiery swords and everything else. And that's what I hate to see go by the board, because it's a sign of a declining civilization. (CC Beck, TCJ #185, 1985)
CC goes on to say how useful conventional images are in comics.
I've often said when we used stereotypes, if you went into a hockshop, there was always a Jew behind the counter, not an Irishman or a Swede, or a Dutchman, or a black person. Went into a bank, there's an old conservative guy with a Hoover collar, he wasn't sitting there in blue jeans and a T-shirt. And you knew where you were and you could go to the next panel, and show a typical farmer with a straw hanging out of his mouth and bare feet and, as I said to.my kids, if you wanted to.show a slob, you had him.running around in his undershirt and his stocking feet. Now today, everybody runs around like that. It's not the stereotype of s slob anymore because you don't know, it might be a university professor, or a heart surgeon or something. And that's democracy taken to its ultimate limit; everybody's so.much alike that they might as well.be in uniform.
Similarly, Crumb reckoned the hippy gradually became a uniform and rote. Stereotypes are impossible to avoid - the ultimate being the male and female bodies. But they can either be strong and on the correct side; or weak and meaningless.
Medieval behavior was bodily strong, somewhat schizophrenic, and somewhat stereotypical. Different castes would perform different acts, and church dogma would continually equivocate to allow battle to commence and blood to flow.
Even though this reporter was not there to witness the events, it seems obvious that hypocrisy and schizophrenia were involved. That's just history, since the alternative is to hear the language of dictatorial control from the Taliban, or alternatively the language of managerial economics from.the acolytes of the dollar.
Neither of these things may involve schizophrenia, but neither do they allow for the free-expression of the body in proportional surroundings.
This takes a less than.dollar-fixated mentality, as has been apparent in establishments such as the Hotel Chelsea in New York (squalid habitat of bohemians of note - see also Fred of Pilote, prev.)
Not everything is language - or at least it's poetic and atmospheric - and we are fooled in the modern world into relating action to the head, not to the proportional body/habitat (wolflike.)
The end result of that is that AI governs human behaviour, and we all enter the mirror of illusions (of electromagnetism and algorithm, straight-lines, sun.)
Not everything can be controlled since, after all, the proportions of the body are God-given. God-given freedom shall dispell Mammon, and allow events to transpire naturally without egotistical concern. The fates.
In a way, this fate has befallen a lot of modern comics, whereby characters are running events (in terms of egotistical assumptions), instead of the events forcing characters to act (naturally and bodily).
With honorable exceptions (such as Tini Howard) the language of modern comics is dictatorial as opposed to freely poetic. Let the body speak.
Looking back at my pictures when I shoot it's insane the psychology in seeing myself in my purest form gives evidence that pain, hurt, tears and heavy burdens aren't who I am..a beautiful, sensitive woman who needs to look at myself in my purest form. (Britney Spears)
