What the F***? (4)

..The area that is 'captured ' invariably corresponds to the individual head and, when you're inside that area, some things aren't visible or 'real'. The gritty aesthetic of freewheeling biker gangs, or the gritty aesthetic of schoolgirl badmouthing.

t.A.T.u.

Where there is grime and sweat, rebellion is not far behind since it is a form of wild expression free from monetary constraints. The wild and the physical are a primitive reality which is non-verbal and proportionate. Words tend to be used in a more physical and hence poetic style, while the dark psychology of modernity uses words in a crooked sense.

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

It seems clear the 2nd amendment is referring to the establishment of small-town order within a wider context of freedom. America is the spokesman for the free world,  but what is freedom?

Primarily,  it has to be the psyche that is empowered (given free rein) within communes that exercise balance and proportion through self-governance. Self-governance (see passim) operates not through order but through low-level feuding. Old TV series like The Dukes of Hazard have that in spades.

So, order and freedom are opposites which tend to attract one another.  Where this is not understood,  words become crooked.

"It's a matter of freedom. You don't have that right in England  - it got taken from you. I have had to use my gun a couple of times but I haven't had to fire it. People tried to take something from me but then they saw my gun." (guy at NRA convention)

But the 2nd amendment is not a matter of anarchic freedom; it's a justification for order in communal settings which are intrinsically free. It's the state of intrinsic freedom - grime, dirt,  rebellion,  sweat, blood, manure - that is under threat in the 'free' world.

The NRA, composed of individuals,  uses crooked words to justify anarchy. First of all physical freedom is needed - a cowboy sensibility of the free range - and this empowers the psyche. Words are topsy-turvy owing to the fact that order and freedom are two poles of one thing. That is, grime or psychic expression in the wild. 

EC Tubb in Dumarest points to a similar arrangement the 'lowtown' settings of itinerant spacers.

By night the field held a certain magic; one born of starlight and shadows, enigmatic shapes and iridescent hues, the whole bound with the circle of blazing illumination tracing the perimeter beyond which lay only the mystery of contrasting darkness.  By day the magic had gone, to leave only the battered vessels, the dirt soiled with scattered debris,  vomit, urine and, sometimes,  blood. (Earth is Heaven, page 71)

Poverty is oftentimes psychic freedom; the psychic freedom of communal expression can outclass even political tyranny (see Latin America,  prev.) In other words,  the psyche is inspired by grime, and is able to indulge in momentary action - physical expression (gayness, rags, song, games. )

Where there is no physical detritus, both the psyche and physical health tend to suffer. We tend to exist in a society of ones and zeros,  reminiscent of the dual-note of 'Jirel Meets Magic' (prev.) 

Tubb hints at this type of odd madness in the Cyclan culture.

Rapport was never like this and, since the the time when he had spoken to Marle, it had been as always. The contact, the exchange, the euphoria which yielded ecstasy and which resulted from electromagnetic stimulation of the pleasure center of the brain. 

A thought which startled him - was it true? And why should it have come to him at all? (Melome & Angado, page 244)

The mirror of illusions is order without freedom (body, action, physical grime, revival) or the false Apollo of perfection (harbouring the profane serpent) without the physical grime of Dionysus. Essentially, this is the god of technology (the NRA and ABBA Voyage are one in that respect!)

It's all so convincing but, as CC Beck said,

..back in nineteen-aught-four, as we old-timers say, one if the early aviators took an airplane over to China, and the Emperor of China saw the plane as it flew around, and the Emperor was not impressed at all.. "Look, Emperor,  it's flying!" "Well, that's what it's supposed to do,  isn't?" (TCJ #95, page 66)

Other things apply, whether it's Musk's rockets or gene-editing techniques to boost crops in the wake of the Ukraine war.  Boosting crops comes at the expense of a healthy soil, and the soil is simply Mother Earth. Worms, nettles  caterpillars,  butterflies, birds, trees and so forth (large-scale similarities).

Trees surround communes; Man is part of Earth. It's not a walk in the park and in a cyclical sense things get messy. There are vagabonds..

.."Thieves! They robbed me of-"

"Why not?" Dumarest was harsh. "Did you think of the spacer when you went after his cash? Care what happened to him? The others you robbed? Di you give a damn for the animals killed so you can eat meat? The slaughters? The stink? The blood and pain? What makes you so special?" (Earth is Heaven,  page 93)

The cyclical land of invariable time or Earthspin. Technology is heading into the mirror of illusions of variable time so the choice is there. To rebel in a grimy sense (and be free), or to wind up cleaning machines in the order of crooked words.

What the F***? (3)

 He was a more drifting through an infinity of darkness touched with transient gleams. Sparkles which vanished as soon as observed; shimmer s which spread as if to illuminate the universe and then yielded again to darkness. An analogy Avro could understand, as it was a model he could appreciate for a its bare simplicity. A birth repeated again and again and each time, as yet, flaring only to die. Sense and logic destroyed time and time again by the forces of brute ignorance, but one day the cold glow of reason would eliminate all shadows and would illuminate the entire universe with its radiant splendor. (EC Tubb, Earth is Heaven, page 35)

The demonic Cyclan sound quite affable in this quote from the Dumarest saga but, of course, it depends whether you choose to think of Enlightenment values as good or bad! As has been noted previously, the future we (or 'they') seem to be heading towards is not so much a sequence of events (past-present-future) as a state of mind.

Without a course of progressive events -in terms of bodily movements - we are ever-nearing a sentience of sameness (the Amazon House of Things), and the sentence is delivered by the dragon of news, that itself seems to resemble motion-capture and expressive algorithms (prev.)

There was an Angus McKie story in HM with the punchline 'It all depends if you're an optimist or a pessimist', and that's about the size of it. If optimism is wrong, then all the ideals in the world aren't going to change the miasmic events.

That is to say, Enlightenment optimism that the values of the Enlightenment are right. While Enlightenment values may produce capitalist democracies, there has always been an alternate culture existing alongside or counter. In the 60s, Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolfe was a typical counter-culture motif (of anomie and danger to delicate psychic strands). The psychic strength of Art Nouveau figured in hippie posters.

There are other factors, such as Japanese prints and the oriental line. There is, of course, Nietzsche's flamboyant Zarathustra and the expression of the moment. Do, in fact, momentary acts run counter to the Enlightenment, in that they are not thought-out? Does the presence of thought and description destroy poetry as in Alan Moore's essay 'Blood from the Shoulder of Pallas'? (in Watchmen).

The sentience of sameness may just be another word for death (as in Korvac, W8). If the future is a state of mind, the course of events by contrast in a physical sense is cyclical and revives from decay. In other words, analytical thinking, for all its technical benefits, has limits.

The limits are those of the body, and Jean-Luc Godard made a similar point with the scene in Goodbye to Language of the guy on a toilet seat adopting the pose of The Thinker. Greek lewdness and innuendo are the other side of the coin to Apollonian reason (or the mirror of illusions) of modernity.

Where the body is concerned, differences count instead of mental sameness, in that the body is a fighting instrument. The anti-Enlightenment attitude espouses ritual fights between differences or sexes, much as in animal displays (see the Siena Palio.)

Ritual fighting (I mean as in boxing or martial arts) is in-the-moment and reactive, and there is a limit to the amount of thought possible (see Raducanu passim). Bruce Lee developed a system for this called Jeet Kune Do, which has no inflexible style and so is very flexible to events. 

The body is a cyclical instrument of power as opposed to a mental system of information. In The Way of the Dragon, Lee pokes fun at Western morés when toward the beginning he's sitting on a toilet seat with the door wide open. The coarse humour grates on western sensibilities (of hygiene and reason.)

Momentary action and coarseness are the values that run counter to the Enlightenment and could therefore represent a counter-revolution (from Descartes and the course of technology.)

Partly, I guess, it's a religious choice. I noticed the von Trapps, the singing Austrians who went to America, have similar attitudes to the Amish. Epistemology is the philosophy of understanding, and if one understands religious precepts as opposed to technological ones that could be fair enough (especially psychically and in terms of physical strength.)

Coarseness, in that sense, could be horse manure (dirt which cleanses with strength). In that way, the cyclical life is strong and clearly takes place in invariable time (of the stars and Earthspin) as opposed to the variable time of machines and Relativity (or Relativity-machines).

Physical coarseness and fighting. This could be pulp heroes; it could be blues (Canned Heat, prev); it could be the self-government of rough neighborhoods (see Detroit, Drama3).

Fights, or ritual conflict, is not ideal but has a type of glamour (West Side Story). As an alternate to the sentience of sameness there may be something in it. Low-level feuding may simply be the best way for people to interact and retain independence of spirit.

In the reality of low-level feuds (often in a group as in Canned Heat), momentary action and coarseness are the key. One experiences life as opposed to being told what it is (by teacher stroke algorithm). In that sense, there's bound to be a much better balance between the abstract Apollo and the physical Dionysus.

In Fito de la Parra's memoir, Canned Heat are a stirring summary of that. The Bear in fact died virtually penniless, and it was only under Fito's expert guidance that the band regenerated. 

Anything that's anti-Enlightenment (anti-establishment) has to have a much wider horizon of understanding (than technology). It has to essentially take in psyche and physical strength (beat-up volkswagens, the power of rust). This might imply that momentary action and coarseness are left to just 'happen', as was often the case in the 60s.

The fact is that without spirit and dirt there is zero momentary action and the whole thing is choreographed by social-media, algorithms and motion-capture. The future of dark psychology where truth is just the latest fiction.

WHEN THE EARTH MOVES AGAIN

What the F***? (2)

 The roughness and toughness of sticky situations is often where it's at in nature. What I've been trying to get at is the absence of psyche in a universe of number (machine, engineering). And yet we are steadily progressing towards a state where most live in the Amazon House of Things with an assumption of hygiene, as opposed to sleaze (see Shanghai, TofF2).

If that is the mirror of illusions (DNA, electromagnetism, detection by X-ray diffraction) it harbours a dark psychology where words are misconstrued. Words rely on a physical or non-ambivalent reality. The non-ambivalent reality is composed of the rhythms and melodies of large-scale similarities (see Haeckel, prev.)

Large-scale similarities needs must be primitive since they universally rely on spin, Catherine wheels and so forth (see kids' games P200). There has to be a sequence of events whereby kids learn from and are exposed to a physical condition of primal reality.

The primal reality is under threat from the illusion of order the likes of Dawkins proselytise (see quote R3). Without a sequence of developments from primitive roots, it is only imposed order (by acolytes of the mirror), not a spontaneous and happy event.

Dawkins' assumption is that attitudes and behaviour are programmed to the brain, whereas it's much more likely they are learnt from a sequence of developments in rough neighborhoods.

Roughness is a tonic that spurs the psyche to react and exist inside a body that is reflexive. For a start, what is behaviour without breathing? The rhythm of breathing sets a tonic for the body and is a primitive form of reality (for animals).

In Living the Blues, Fito de la Parra's memoir of Canned Heat, he relates a farcical episode of yoga enthusiast Alan Wilson.

Alan was very serious about Hatha yoga and tuned me onto it.. after The Bear's outburst of "fucks" before the teeny-boppers Alan had to give a deposition. He was sure he could bring yoga power down on the prosecutor with proper breathing techniques, so he would breathe in hard while answering each question.

"Are you in this band?"

Sucking in his breath: "Yes."

"Were you on stage with Bob Hite on the night in question?"

Big suck: "Yes "

"Did you hear Hite say 'fuck' on stage?"

Whooooosh: "No."

The other guys are laughing behind their hands. Even the district attorney obviously didn't know whether to worry about these dangerous lunatics he was questioning or just give up and giggle with the rest of us. (page 191, 192)

Hysterical, but the point is that without primal rhythms there could be no sequences of development. The body is a mechanical system of systems that functions at every level. A living community has rhythms, as do the seasons. The galaxy is a spiral.

As was noted in P200 and elsewhere, this is only possible where time is invariable. Variable time is an invention of futurologists who worship machines (see 'The Airtight Garage').

Variable time distorts natural rhythms and takes us into a world where primitive origins are abandoned. The future has a type of sentience that only allows for sameness (of numbers) and not the physical differences that are exciting and rhythmic.

Culturally, I'm meaning Arabian belly dancing or American boogie. The blues is a mixture of simplicity and subtlety, with the ability to have odd measures of 13 bars. Feel and spontaneity are contrasted to the interpretive tradition of western classical.

On the other hand, without feel no music is worth anything, it is so fundamental to experience. Verbally, the blues is very physical with double-entendres or hints of scatology or insults.

The problem with the modern scene is it only appears real to the ego which is obsessed by numbers (see ego-compulsion, Grace Slick.) Reality is actually rhythmical and hence the physical realism of the blues.

Dawkins assumes the reality is numerical or algorithmic from the point of view of DNA. It's a mistake of ego-compulsion; the body functions rhythmically or not atall. The throat is a miracle of condensed intertwined rhythms that connect head to body and enable speech and breath and song.

The physical reality (of survival) has to have primitive roots and has to occur in the invariable time of the constellations and the myths of Man.

What the F***? (1)

 The physical aspect of psyche seems to have become something of a theme. In other words, the physical condition of humanity that imbues strength of mind.

When conditions are harsh, mental strength is more likely to be present. For example, when Kanye West suggested going back to the land with a mule and eight acres. The self-reliance is a matter of faith. 

The 28th Dumarest, Melome, pushes this quite far, and the female interest (one of them) is a trainer of big cats in a planetary circus (somewhat reminiscent of the parallel realities in Judgement Night) who almost takes our one of his eyes with her whip ('leather traveling at supersonic speed'.) Jealousy of Melome is the key. This is somewhat reminiscent of the scene in X-factor where Scott and Jean fight over Phoenix (prev.)

Fights are physical, and the physical gives rise to the psyche - in comics particularly. Another facet broached is the idea that the cyber group-mind might get bored. Cyber Avro was an angel (via the affinity twin) and..

Avro moved, feeling nothing in his amniotic tank, likening his existence to those who had gone before. The fortunate ones now sealed in their capsules, minds released from all physical irritations, free to think, speculate, extrapolate - was boredom the answer?

..Avro spun in his tank as his mind became infused with burning images. The mountains. The crystalline glitter of nests. The sheen of wings and the glow of sunlight warming pinnacle and crag. The moonlight which bathed the world in a silver, nacreous glow. The stars. The rain and cloud and gentle winds. The taste of crisp, morning air. The smell of grass. The soft impact of another living, breathing shape.

Madness! (page 114)

The theme of physical/psyche suggests that the two cannot be separated, so that a detached brain inevitably gets bored and loses the will to be ins vat. Avro is captivated by aerial experiences as an angel, and you could imagine the smells and shapes of a garden captivate in similar fashion.

The strength of a garden is often in its rough ways. Leaving nettles and other weeds allows butterflies to lay eggs. It's sleazy and fairly easy. So what is clearly missing in the Cyclan plan for domination is the ecology. Partly that's because ecology is productive and depends on sleeping around, which the cybers don't do atall.

Partly, though, it's just the sense of laissez-faire. Untidiness is a boon and mulch is a must for vibrant growth (colour, smell, sound of birds and circadias).

The physical condition is untidy. Kids prosper in their rough games. The development of kids depends on a sequence which is tied to instinctive traits (sucking the teat.) In a cybernetic system, that sequence can be stymied (the pandemic has apparently slowed tots verbally.)

The basic point is the physical condition powers the psyche. Without the physical condition the psyche can be disempowered. Now, a sequence has to be a physical thing; it depends on movement such as the spin of the Earth. These sequences all take place in invariable time. Classical Greek myth.

Living in variable (or Relative) time distorts the primal rhythms. This is the future of the head advocated by the likes of Musk. Thee is a dark psychology of sameness that ties development to computer-time (measurement.)

Contrasted to this, the physical condition is tied to physical movements. Godard, in Goodbye to Language (prev), has several scenes of a guy on a toilet seat seeming to adopt the pose of The Thinker accompanied by scatological sounds.

This is a very classical, comic scene. The lewd or scatological are prevalent in Aristophanes. Grace Slick calls it 'Chaucerian trash' in Somebody to Love?

Life is boring without that physical condition because there is no lightweight humour. One is left with number and measurement and even when it's obvious there are scatological connotations (R7) it doesn't register with the cybernetic brain. Nevertheless, there is that condition because of the thinker's pose. It's human comedy.

The physical and primitive supply ready insults, insults that the entrenched political class seem not to favour (prev.) Words should be free to use and connected to the physical reality or we enter a parallel system of sameness. Words ultimately depend on physical life which is non-verbal and proportionate (the zodiac.)

The dark psychology of modernity uses words in a crooked sense. This is apparent in Ukraine where both the Ukrainian fighters and the Russians are labelled 'Nazis' by eachother. 

Words only have meaning where the physical life is strong and reflexive. In nature either one wins or loses, either one is living or dead. Tubb typically takes this to extremes. In the fight between Dumarest and ringmaster Zucco, he suddenly realized his peril..and the way out (see Bruce Lee, prev.)

A telepath. Zucco's special skill which Shakira had mentioned. A man who could read thought and act before they had been turned into movement. A fighter against whom there could be no calculated defense..

Why did Zucco want him to attack? 

"Come," he said again. "It's time you made up your mind."

Time?..

Action too fast for thought, born of the reactive instinct honed by numerous combats and augmented by Dumarest's natural speed. The speed was too fast for Zucco to follow and he backed across the ring toward the tunnel where Valaban stood, Reiza at his side, Shakira a shadowy figure behind.

"No!" Zucco backed further, face distorted with terror as he read the grim, unrelenting purpose in Dumarest's mind. "No'!" (page 143,144)

(Oddly enough, the story concerns a diva who's song penetrates the past, with a Columbian cameo!)

LOOK WHAT THEY'VE DONE TO MY SONG

Revivalism (7)

it seems like the Sagittarius black hole could be a consequence of the galactic spin, rather than as is implied a fulcrum. The fact we can observe it isn't necessarily meaningful in terms of spin.
(A similar argument might apply to DNA being a consequence of rhythm, rather than DNA somehow being responsible for it..) - posted on swordsofreh forum

A fulcrum is a point of leverage, so one thing you assume is that a lever has a sense of proportion. IE, is it a million light years long or several kilometres?

There can be no physical leverage without proportion so, for a start, where does proportion come from? It could easily come from the shape of s galaxy that gives the overall breadth of the galaxy. You have a physical shape but, since it's already in spin, there's no need for leverage in any case!

This whole argument is reminiscent of Katie Bouman's black hole imaging (HB56). What is imaged is essentially a product of electromagnetism and computer algorithms (she's a computer-imaging engineer.) The thing that's imaged happens to be at the centre of the galaxy, since it's the centre of spin (with centripetal forces.)

It's fundamental in the sense that the shape of the galaxy dictates it; in a sense it's the asshole of the galaxy. It's an object that depends for observation on numerical fixation, somewhat like Grace Slick's quote on anal-compulsion (HB62/1). The fixation on the object is a matter of numerical compulsion.

Outside of this numerical area is the universe of rhythm and melody (etc.) A body's power has leverage owing to the sense of proportion (which is balanced artfully). This seems to be why we live in a topsy-turvy world of variable (mathematical) time, where primordial rhythms are completely distorted. This is what is called measurement - or is it in fact a parallel reality, the mirror of illusions?

Alongside this is a dark psychology of distorted natural rhythms. We are supposed to cheer modern advanced, but DNA is mainly junk that happens to be detectable by X-ray diffraction (electromagnetism). The quantification of data hides the fact that the body's irregularities and illogicaliare are able to read miscoded sequences, or 'mistakes' in the copies (see fish swarms, prev.)

The modern scene convinces the ego owing to its numerical quantification of data. If you take a census, that would be highly convincing, but it's still illusory without the physical condition of street rhythms and melodies.

If these still exist then the census must be said to be valuable. The physical reality, like a galaxy, has a mechanical life that is highly proportionate and balanced. The idea of mechanical engineering without those is a non sequitur.

Without the 'body logic' (see Corneille, the illogical borrows from the logical, prev) of balance and proportion, the modern world becomes a sort of dark farce of zeros. Instead of the primitive, instinctive reality of strength, one is continually told what to do by 'them'.

One should be free to use the words one wishes, only according to Nina Jankowicz 'disinformation' is not allowed. I take issue with this thesis; reality is quite hard to define and should be a broad spectrum. 

They also want to 'protect' people from insults. Does Yidiot count as that? In short, insults are physically telling and can carry a grain of truth. The affinity of differences, antagonistic balance, as opposed to the dark psychology of sameness when words become meaningless.

The physical and primitive, instinctive truths that forestall a political entrenchment (Revivalism 1). The spin of the galaxy, the free spirit of communal antics in the dirt of the Earth. 

Bob Hite has more breadth than any number of Jankowicz clones.

LONG WAY FROM LA