As a coda, primitive physical revivalism was a lot of what the San Fran scene was about in '67. The young and footloose made their way there and - guess what - found a ready door at the newly-rich bands of the day.
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She does as she pleases, She waits there for me
Women match men by being different; they desire freedom and free expression in mutual exchange for monetary rewards.
The young women or the nymphets bring primitive gaiety that is the signal of physical revival from decay. They are free to choose their mates because freedom is what they choose. The fact that they end up with older men is both moral and logical, monetarily-spealing!
In Lolita, Humbert seemingly rises above the consumerist culture, and also seemingly above the Freudian one (Nabokov was a Freudian sceptic.) The logic of the relationship is primeval, while in the modern context the filth is hidden.
However, comparing this situation to Weekend (P207), Godard has the entire capitalist system in thrall to neutral-value, and by extension the anal-compulsion of number and measure.
Morality cannot simply be a measure of expertise since this in itself holds out the immorality of being outside the physical reality of natural power (youth.)
Viewed as a book or film, there's no clearcut moral signal in Lolita; but viewed from a perspective of the obsessions of modernity, the filth that Lolita practices has an honesty and naturalist persuasion that gives it some credence.
This also comes out in the screaming fits which are a double-pronged tussle ("Here we go again"), the opposite of a slimy dictatorship. Lolita has no fragility, unlike Humbert, another link to the 50s heroines espoused by Grace Slick who act as tough as hombres (P206).
The theme I've been developing is that differences contain similarities; the affinity of differences is something the modern order tries to do without in the great neutralising agenda of 'news'.
Affinities are strong and physical and constitute tussles of wills (psyche) - see Howard Pictorial 11. The tussle is itself the resolution of the conflict in its dynamic splendor. Now, essentially the State represents the neutral-value of inductive science - as practiced by capital.
The fire-breathing dragon of neutralising news (P206) enters a parallel universe of measure and sterile expertise that is attractive to the ego (of acolytes of the mirror of illusions.)
Measure and sterile expertise move away from the fertile area of rhythm, force and movement (see proteins, spiral galaxies,DNA and fish swarms.) It is this fertile area where tussles of free-spirits occur, and where affinity of strong psyches reigns.
Science is 'unbiased' because it has no physical reality of primeval rhythm; measure is everything. The ego is convinced, and even "Television means the State" (Godard on Godard, page 191).
Without a physical tussle (isn't that sex?) the instruments of the State institute a neutralising agenda. The 60s hippies attempted to break-free of this in their immoral fashion. Lolita is a similar conflict, where the tough and seemingly immoral actually have the morality of psychic rebellion (from the neutral state of being.)
The physical reality is dirty and vibrant- attractive to the psyche as opposed to the inert ego. Without Dionysus, according to Nietzsche, Greek tragedy could not exist. Tragedy is the eternall struggle between individual and collective.
When that brightness (a rebellious streak) ceases to participate in reality, the unbiased and non-physical expertise of measurement maintains an illusion of order. Illusory because, without physical degradation there can be no Dionysian revival, no gaiety in the fields. No milkmaids a-waiting, and even Geishas are getting the cold-shoulder in parts of Japan (under the Western yoke.)
The tough and immoral brutality of a reality built on the tussles between individuals and states is as good a definition of the moral strength of Hyborian kingdoms as any.
Nietzschean immorality of the physical tussles between individuals and between individual and the State produces the morality of psychic toughness. The affinity of differences. "Here we go again."
