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 In a hermetic system (see The Airtight Garage) the relation to reality is not physical but a type of coded program/routine. This is why DNA is the height of illusion, since on the one hand it's highly convincing - almost a panacea - and on the other it is simply random information.

How can something random be a panacea? For the reason that acolytes enter a parallel reality or the vanishing-point of technique, represented by the mirror of illusions (perspective, algorithm, number.) 

Inside the mirror of illusion, techniques are practiced by the process of logical assumptions. One example is gene-editing, they delivers disease-free vegetables. However, within the mirror of illusions resides the profane serpent of corrupt rhythm - see 'clean meat'.

Freedom from disease in a natural-system is simply a product of balance between predators/prey in an ecosystem - the physical reality. The parallel system occupies a parallel reality where proportionate growth - in animal or plant - becomes irrelevant. It is information-based, algorithmic.

What this implies is that gene-editing and fiddling with DNA for disease control does not take account of the proportions of the body that enable active pursuits in natural settings.

However, the latter is clearly the original source of health. Benign bacteria exist in the soil that humans in history have been exposed to. The exposure is a form of disease-prevention.

Culture that is a part of nature is exposed to cyclical processes; decomposition and revival with the seasonal variations. This exposure is a physical by-product of active life in-the-fields.

The basic point is that, while a hermetic system is governed by rules of logic (appealing to the heads of acolytes), a natural-system - communal or eco - is illogical.

As has been already noted, it can only be governed by opposites or antagonistic forces such as muscles, that supply proportionate balance in active situations. The 'facts' of modernity are highly convincing, but only within the hermetic system (of logic.)

The more convincing these facts become the more likely it is they exist within the mirror of illusions that attracts the head of acolytes. Within the mirror exists the profane serpent that distorts balanced, proportionate human or animal forms.

Only with a proportionate system can the profane serpent be deterred by what are the normal functions of active life of a coordinated, communal style. Hunting, slaughtering, dismembering and storing game, scything, carpentry - see next post.

That is, a coordinated or communal reality where the psyche has a means of expressing itself in song, patois (as in the cowboy on the range, say.)

Of course 'they' will simply keep churning-out their DNA-style facts that are seemingly convincing, so one way to approach this is via an area of alternative facts. That is to say, not from inert DNA studies, but from animate studies.

The idea that a skeleton can be designed without animation is preposterous, as a brief look at Walt Disney makes apparent.

The Art of Walt Disney, Christopher Finch

The artists at Disney in the 30s learned animation by a process of incremental study using free linework. The study of anatomy or animation is an incremental destiny of draftsmanship, in much the same way as Leonardo da Vinci's in The Virgin of the Rocks (prev.)

A line creates movement, and that is how animation is engineered. From the movement comes the ability to humorise situations, such as these balletic parodies. The musical atmosphere is cleverly synced to anthropomorphic behaviour.

Dance of Hours from Fantasia

The idea that the movements of a skeleton - and the body encasing it - can be discovered without animation is preposterous. It took Disney 10 years and it takes nature 10 million, but the process is the same. The evolution of line in contrapuntal situations of activity.

This makes it obvious that evolution is illogical, and involves contrapuntal opposites that must be balanced in proportionate ways. As Corneille (prev) said,

The illogical borrows from the logical.

An illogical system contains logic for obvious reasons; but the contrary is not the case. A logical system is a hermetic one.

The contrapuntal system of opposing elements clearly also allows for humour; the cheekiness of a donkey's ears, say. The alternate facts were explored by Disney and are in a sense vastly more real than are the hermetic'facts' of a DNA-style science.

Of course, 'they' will say nothing in nature is designed, but the fact is that contrapuntal elements have to involve a design in the fo of balance and proportion. Only a logical system can do without design, but that is sheer random chaos.

DNA is illusory for the reason the random element is needed for a logical system (that is not innately balanced.) The sequences that we see in Disney are the result of contrapuntal antagonism, and not of logic.

Any logical system produces convincing results, but they are bound to invoke the profane serpent of corrupt rhythm. The elements of balance and proportion (of a body) are outside the system. It is purely of the head (of acolytes of the mirror of illusions, algorithm, number). 

A hermetic system tends towards sameness mainly owing to its lack of reliance on linework (after all, Alchemy never changed reality as modern techniques do!) 

Personally, as a fan of early Disney, innovations have a way of peaking, and Pixar represents a decline. A decline into what is really copying algorithmically instead of exploring a situation with expressive line.

Pixar is essentially entering the mirror of illusions where there is a type of sameness to things. Is it fantasy or reality? Who knows? Sameness is a type of disease of modernity resulting from the vanishing-point of technique. 

Pixar is convincing but not atmospheric, and tends to nullify the imaginative faculty in kids. Anime tends to retain a painterly approach despite the techniques they use like motion-capture, and so the magic is there still. Without atmosphere and suggestion what you could call the psychic dimension is lacking. Without the psyche, what is there?

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 The alternate UK newspaper The Light so far as I can gather is radically anti-corporate state, though whether you call that left or anarchist is anyone's guess. What they stand for tallies to a large degree with what I've been calling the physical reality (nature/culture) that is expressed in communal psyche (song, praise.)

This applies to diverse aspects, such as the Indian small-farmers' rebellion against Modi's free-market/infrastructure legislation; the Babcock ranch syndrome of an "electric-green future" (all prev) - and so forth. The future may be electric, but it is not green. Decadence and decay - of vegetable produce, or of fermenting pig manure - are clearly a strength of the physical reality of self-sufficient areas that are not governed by the efficiency of scale, but by the inefficiency of green nature!

Efficiency is itself inefficient because it is part of the electricalization of the world. The Light are very good on this aspect. 

You would never put all your best eggs in one place lest the one basket should fall..The notorious Georgia Guidestones reads 'Maintain' humanity, control over the world's energy needs is a very smart way to do that (pun intended). We used to have gas cookers, coal fires, wood stoves and now new homes will be banned from having gas central heating from 2025.. nothing that mega-corporations, governments and NGOs push for is meant to benefit the common people, it is meant to enslave us, eventually.

Yes, but slaves to what exactly? Corporations have always existed in history, and what The Light calls 'collective' could apply to monasteries, or even a Greek city-state!

In Hyborian language, the Red Brotherhood (of the Vilayet sea) or the Free Companions. One can't do without collectives whether historical or fantastical. I guess The Light mean enslavement to finance but, as has been noted passim, the money market is just the way the numerical order is run. 

Enslavement to numbers in the form of algorithms (ones and zeros) that are assumed to be right (logical). That is really to say, enslavement to calculation, so this is the same trend that can be deciphered in 17th century Poussin (HB190).

This is really why the language I'm using is not that realistic: the devious serpent, the Black Sun of Calculation, or even Puss in Boots! It's more like fairy tale language for the weird land that 'they' call reality.

If we are in a calculating world (of the head), we are not also in an active world (of the body), and it's clear that fairy tales apply to the active human and animal body, male and female, in a green world (of trees and owls and nightfall.)

What is called reality has the illusion of realism and is highly convincing, but it could still be a mirror (electromagnetism, straight-lines.) The Light takes a shot at the electric car as a 'green' standby, with their hazardous batteries. I looked this up , and a possible future battery is made from organic quinone, so could prove friendlier (after all, nothing is perfect.)

But, if electric cars are friendlier and all things become electric, is electricity itself green? No, it's the calculating engine of electromagnetism. 'They' don't really mean green energy, they mean clean. It's the same trend to tidyness and caution that originates from the 17th century and Poussin, and culminates in the all-electric future. Ironically, the more 'green' the less green (ie more electric.)

 Sterile, static, lab-harvested, run via algorithmic logic (‘clean meat’, gene-editing). The monotony of calculated sameness that is equated with efficiency. Except that nature’s inefficiencies are strong and purposeful, carefree as opposed to calculated, active as opposed to static, a world of coordinated differences that incorporate strength, rustic pride in the harvest and Dionysus, the psyche rebounds, the plains of plenty, the pounding rites of spring.

 

Carefree, dynamic, coordinated, communal, song, gay giggles, rustic milkmaids.

This goes down badly with the spokespeople such as politicians for the ego-centric accomplishments of sterile efficiency, who could not conceive that inefficiency is simply the way nature maintains fertility by allowing untidiness, decomposition and revival.

The sterility of the head of the acolyte – represented by the DNA-Dragon – versus the fertile areas where the body performs active country pursuits. Weakness versus strength.

A world the shadow of illusion hangs over all things, versus the heritage of a free psyche in a universe of dreams. A world where the greatest illusion of all – DNA – convinces acolytes with the logical sequence that ignores the coordination of antagonistic principle (the ideal figure, athletics).

 

“When my colleague Rick Ree sequenced it and told what family it belonged to (Picramniaceae) I told him.. no way. I just couldn’t believe it. (DT item on a newfound tree in the jungle)

A logical sequence is highly convincing and therefore true within a logical universe (the mirror of illusions) where the DNA-Dragon exists. The difference with reality is that coordinated antagonism ITSELF produces sequences of balanced proportion.

 

(see also the perspective of the lens – the false Apollo – in P56). A comic book sequence, by comparison, tells a story – a story is told through the elements of balance and proportion. We exist in the world of empirical reason as opposed to empirical tradition (see passim.)

The language of myth is strong and pure, unsullied by calculating reason. The reason of calculating number that is itself the sorcery of our age; an age of the death of carefree active and fertile plains of bold dreams. The free and melancholy psyche of Man’s lineage.

Within the mirror of illusions exists the profane serpent of corrupted rhythm; primal rhythm cannot be denied, only distorted. This language of fairy tale can't be fooled by the numbers of modern science (programmed, see The Airtight Garage.)

An elemental truth is always going to be so, and this is what modernity deviates from. One can go back to the last days of the cowboys and the classic 69 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George R Hill.)

This is told in a modern - ie 60s - rendition of nostalgia for the days round about the time of the onset of general electrification. The train at the first scene, for example, is a period piece that still emitted steam. There's the bicycle scene (Newman and Ross) that was just playful improvisation. The characters are carefree in the sense they live solely by wits and physical skills of riding, shooting, tracking. 

When they are tracked by the super-posse, they escape by throwing caution to the winds and jumping into the super-hazard of shallow rapids. The world they live in is one of Fortune (see Byron quote) which of course at the end runs out when they are gunned down by Bolivian cavalry.

However, the last shot they appear in sepia as a framed memento of their last escapade; they have become myth. The same thing applies to Hill's film, and myth (as Newman says in an interview) is always hard to disentangle from the reality.

The basic point is that, in an elemental world myth is real because it is elemental. That's why I'm using the language of fairy tale to describe the modern 'reality' (illusions). The myth contains elemental things such as friendship, camaraderie in active settings that rely on pure skill and coordination (hand/eye) as it as happened since time immemorial.

That physical coordination and the antagonistic principle of muscles-in-action is what makes us human, active in the world of action, and makes human part of nature (when that principle is active it can be startling, as in the Raducanu phenomenon.)

The language of fairy tale is the language of myth, that has a physical reality in the dynamics of bodies-in-motion. Human, animal, elemental. Where there is coordinated, communal reality, the psyche has a means of expression in song, or the song of life (and death.)

Physically (dynamically), the modern order approaches zero or the vanishing-point of technique. Rather than submitting to 'their' language of DNA information (that attracts the ego to the mirror of illusions), the language of fable invokes the DNA-Dragon.

In the mirror of illusions resides the profane serpent of corrupt rhythm. In Elena's picture, this is hidden by the DNA-Dragon of ego-lust and accomplishment.

Conan and Valeria - adventurers of active renown - are sombre but sure inside the id of age-old decadence - representedby a serpent's shed-skin - that revives in time.

The id is sure, but has the melancholy of

VENUS IN FURS

(Elena's drawing is loosely based on BWS 'Red Nails')

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For power and strength in heroic fantasy art there is little to beat Roy Krenkel. I thought I'd start by placing this alongside two classical images, one from the French 17th century baroque, the other from the high renaissance.

Poussin, A Bacchanalian Revel

Titian, Bacchus and Ariadne

I think you'll recognise the fantastic contrast between Poussin - a vigorous draftsman of light and shade but mediocre painter - and Titian's noonglow allure between the startled Ariadne and the besotted god, trailed by gaily appointed satyrs and nymphs.

What happened between Poussin's vigorous pencil studies of f the figures in his tableau, and the finished article that appears so stiltedly posed? The reason is probably that Poussin was a child of the Enlightenment, whereby order and reason we're the principle attributes of beauty.

This has the effect of throwing-out fraught, fearful, fairytale imagery that forcefully affects the psyche. Amongst the cognoscenti, in fact, the austere painter is known as 'Poussin Boots', as he boots off the wild side in order to restore order to his rigid tableaux, tidying-up his own rigorous linework!

Instead of leaping lustily into the fray, consorting with nymphs and throwing caution to the winds, Poussin nerdishly calculates the tonal interplay of his forms to achieve a frieze- like ordered array.

In effect, 'Poussin Boots' sees the origin of what has become the scientific order of the Black Sun of Calculation, that shines where the sun don't shine (see Grace Slick quote P62/1).

Whereas danger is needful, useful and supplies the fantastic drama of Titian's giddy noonglow theatrics, the caution of the dessicated scientist informs Poussin's staid 'frolics'.

The caution that is a reflection of Newtonian dynamics that sees the mind as the arbiter of events, and the body as merely an outgrowth of the dominant brain (see Blake print of Newton, prev.)

This peculiar state of affairs seems to be reaching its culmination in 'the internet of bodies', whereby calculation (algorithms) is applied to all human activities.

Would you want anyone to be able to hack into your fridge, your children's monitor, your private conversations?..if you're not private then you're no longer an individual.  It's as if you're being pushed to eschew the natural world in favour of an artificial..which can be monitored, tracked, controlled, not to mention using electricity for absolutely everything.. (The Light)

Anita Roddick's quote (The Body Shop, prev) on the servitude of the body to the fashion industry seems like a premonition of these later profanities.

Profane because this caution on the part of technicians of the body (shades of Schumacher) merely serves to disguise and subdue the throbbing, reptilian urges that power active bodies (on the range.)

The physically strenuous pursuits that facilitate a strong psyche (of fairytale imagery) are suppressed by the weakness of calculation.

Instead of the danger of the serpent that lurks in knotting, rippling, coiling muscles, there is the caution that suppresses both physic and spirit. This s is the profane, altered serpent of 'clean meat', gene-editing and hybrid-DNA.

It's calculated weakness that relies on appearance fooling one as to what lies within, akin to the expressive algorithm (see Japanese example, prev.)

If the serpent is within the coiling and spinal strength of rhythmic form, it cannot be denied and must be expressed in dangerous pursuits of the outdoor world that rekindle dreams of clarity and vision.

Men took for a sign and standard the figure of the flying dragon, the winged dinosaur, a monster of past ages, which was the greatest foe of the serpent. (The Shadow Kingdom)

Howard's description of the two primeval reptile forms is intriguing, and might be taken as an implication the dragon can be tamed while the serpent cannot (Illyana Rasputin's Lockheed, say.)

A tame dragon might appear cute, but in the hands of the acolytes of caution and order its  flashytechnical accomplishments merely serve to disguise the vastly more subtle serpent that is hybrid and devious, and exists within the mirror of illusions (algorithm, DNA, electromagnetism, AI.)

Next: The DNA Dragon and Elena's prints

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On the subject of Alchemy, it's an Arabian word along with algorithm (Al Gorith'm, Al Chem'y). There is no denying the human thirst for knowledge in antiquarian times. The real trouble is that in the future there will be machine-run Arabian cities which have The Airtight Garage as a prototype!  Everything in modernity trends to one thing, which is the dual-tone of ones and zeros of Jirel Meets Magic (prev), or a future run by AI.

This is the sorcerous area that seels us into the mirror of illusions (electromagnetism or straight-line logic), that has been previously referred to as The Black Sun of Numerical Calculation - from Clair Noto's story Wizards of the Black Sun (SS23) where the goat informs Sonja the city is an illusion.

The shadowy story concerns a compulsive and seemingly anal-obsessive illusion of black magic. The mirror of illusions is the area which has the facts of sterility, but there are also the facts of fertility.

The latter area is what is known as empirical tradition, or places of power. Gardeners who construct ponds will know about it; different things intermix in low-key jungle warfare.

Empirical reason dates from Newton's experiments with light ('Newton's Knives' C4-C6) and the facts of an alternate or parallel universe

It is this universe which trends towards ones and zeros; all human senses are forms of electromagnetism, and the facts of this universe attract the ego of acolytes.

Inside the mirror of illusions everything is convincing in a dreamlike way. Outside of the mirror is the physical reality of our symmetrical planet Earth which is not sterile, but composed of dirt and cleanliness (bathing rituals.)

In the real world, one is often able to se that physical activity is mildly coordinated between different things. The world can appear untidy - as in the Moondog video (P192) - or even squalid - as in Hyborian alleyways - but it has a type of magic that is missing in a world of logical illusion. The magic of fortune (O Henry.)

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves. (Byron)

Fortune occurs where physical differences intermix and permit the emission of psychic vibrations. Friction, tension, stress, low-level feuds.

From untidiness and disarray, fortune arises; but thes are the exact things that are missing from modernity! Whether it's an Arabian city in the desert, or Walt Disney's original template in Florida, it's all the same.

'(Conservation) is a science whose principles are written in the oldest code in the world, the laws of nature.'

Nature is a 'science' and therefore comes under the sway of Newtonian dynamics. This logical order exists outside of the antagonistic pairing of opposites that constitute the flexing of muscles-in-action (the medieval/antiquarian world.)

This world is pre-inductive reason, and goes in exactly the other direction to the new-Disneys of Dubai and Neom city.

Futuristic optimism gives way to age-old patinas of watering-holes and age-old feuds between Bedouin tribes. Age contains feuds just as muscles contain antagonistic pairs; it's the way of action. (As Angus McKie wrote in a story for HM, the future depends on whether you're an optimist or s pessimist!)

The optimism of 50s Disney might be tenable if it was based on more than simply the 'favts' of an illusory order . But the fact is, inside this mirror of illusions of eternal optimism exists the profane serpent that corrupts organic form to toxic uses. 'Clean meat' (prev) or gene-editing that do without the cultivation of opposites (coordinated disarray, lack of logic in balanced systems of action.)

The irony is that from future-optimism springs only psychic weakness, a dream of listlessness with no future (the eternal present with no psychic depth.) Physical untidiness or even squalor are necessary for the growth of intriguing possibilities that otherwise are absent.

The psyche is real; physical untidiness is real; only the ego is attracted to illusions of sterile logic that appeal to reason, that are not felt in cosmic vistas of uncommon pursuit.

The stories found in Hyborian disarray and abandon contain the element of fortune, the zest that gives life a psychic foundation. In a world of no differences, the psyche is in a perpetual confusion between fact and fantasy. Authoritarianism runs amock without the coordinated disarray of fortune. 

Instead of antagonistic principles that create action - muscles, feuding - the modern order caves-in to the standard of technique. Often this takes the form of infrastructure, as in Biden's funding proposals; technique is just another word for the dollar devoid of the strength of communal psyche.

Politics has become a war of numbers, watched by listless psyches of a bemused and confused populace.

As noted previously, technique works but supplies a false standard where the psyche is in mortal peril. A classic example is Michael Schumacher's skiing accident, which broke his psyche into a million shards. Nevertheless, the standard of technique gives life to this shell (pun unintentional.)

A hermetic system.will always misdirect, be it Alchemy or electromagnetism, since it disregards primal rhythm; the serpent-power of Hyboria (see next post) or worms of the earth. The trail of a worm is forever in contrary directions, symbolising destruction and creation. Primal rhythm can't be denied, but can be corrupted inside the mirror of illusions into the profane serpent of amorous meat (prev.)

A hermetic system has no trail-bossism because it has no natural trails, only endless 'facts' of the illusory order. Only through feuding can rebellion occur; the alternate trail away from the psychic confusion of ones and zeros advocated by 'them'.

TOXIQUE AMOUR

(dual-tone electronic piece, not on YouTube apparently)

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 (Note to Sheila - see prev.)

Strong blood. The primitive link with action in the wild is the perennial hunt. Where there is hunting there is the skillful dismemberment of game – see description in The Green Knight  HB188.

The ripe exposure to nature’s entrails necessitates a bath, and bathing rituals are perennial products of active and psychically-healthy cultures (Roman, Japanese.)

When Max Friedman falls into the Danube in Hungarian Rhapsody, it’s only natural that he washes-off the mud and detritus.

Dirt isn’t selective, so far as the body is concerned. The modern trend seems to be to puritanically clean the ‘dirty bits’ while leaving the rest! That simply implies the body is not actually encountering dirt which is a normal by-product of active life in the field, necessitating regular water and mineral bodily exposure in tubs, or at least basins.

A basic problem with modernity is people think they don’t have to encounter different things; that everything is the same. But dirt is simply another word for a strong, fertile environment that is self-sufficient, as opposed to being inert and hygienic.

Scientists in their labs have this continual assumption of sameness as they fiddle with RNA/DNA routines - genes are interchangeable for many species. The culture in Wuhan seems to have been approaching bat-human proxies, where both species were spliced into mice genes.

Moderns think in terms of sameness instead of differences all the time. Boris Johnson on his recent trip to the US made this comment.

"We are awesome." Every day green startups are producing new ideas, he said, highlighting initiatives to feed seaweed to cows to restrain their traditional signs of digestive approval and to use AI and robotics to enhance food production.

"It is these technological breakthroughs that will cut the cost for consumers, so that we have nothing to fear and everything to gain from this green industrial revolution," he said.

The technological-over-reliance makes false problems out of the assumption of sameness. Traditionally pastoral cows that are fed hay and allowed to free-graze are not methane-polluters. Spokespeople like Boris tend to assume that efficiency dictates monoculture on gigantic scale where there is only sameness and the problems arise from monotonous living regimes.

Diversity and difference – mixed farms – are ecologically attractive solutions that have the active life of plants, animals and humans at their core. Where there is active diversity, stable environments are created where the viruses and germs that are present remain within the core populations (see Minnesota Institute of Environment, prev.)

These areas have a high self-sufficiency, and the need for modern technique is correspondingly less. Modern techniques are simply the result of more and more sameness, which is being artificially propelled by random gene-splicing.

We are led by news to accentuate this techno-premise of modernity, basically since it is attractive to the ego. We are living the ego-dream – or nightmare – of genetically-propelled sameness that creates false problems that ‘naturally’ rely on ever-more technical solutions.

The problems are authoritarian – unnatural – but even more they diminish the psyche. As Carl Jung said,

Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakes.

As we dream our lives away, the natural strength of life on the range is lost to use. With strength comes the clarity of dream, instead of the misdirection of a dreamlike stream of news. Blood, dirt, strength, health in self-sufficient communes. The coordinated actions of bodies-in-motion, animal and human.

This is what is being lost to the genetic cult of sameness, that does without primordial action in areas of diversity and health. A logical universe of ‘fact’ is without the coordinated actions that alone can generate a vigor of community that instils also an atmosphere of collective psychic calm (Carl Jung, natch.)

The inner life of communities is represented by atmospheric emissions (candlelit mosques) that reassure with ethical messages or good dreams. Dreams like The Arabian Nights that are above all tales of physical action.

The antagonistic muscles of the body (physique) that represent action in the moral dimension are exactly what is not present in the modern universe of bad dreams.

The human head will always dream, but it can either have an ethical basis (in physical reality), or s basis in random logic. 

The Green Knight, Clair Noto ("Red Lace") or The Arabian Nights represent good dreams that are fully clothed in animal flesh - antagonistic movements, grace (woman, the hunt, blood.)

The modern bad dream cannot have antagonism because it speaks in the language of logic (non-biological.)

In a quote that would be widely repeated in the following decades, she (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) said: "The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman's life.." 

In the version that the ACLU shared on Twitter, it removed any reference to women. (DT)

While biological organisms operate antagonistically in their functions and movements, they have to be the product of balance between and among the different elements.

Balance is primordially what we are in the ancient Greek sense of ideal proportions. We can either make an ethical decision to follow balance in ecosystems and culture, or follow the logical path of random techniques such as gene-editing.

Genes are not a controlling element because they have not the primordial reality of balance that comes from opposing features. Those who follow genes are merely following a random red-herring of cosmic proportions!

Creative redundancy (prev) is the clue that organic bodies above all require coordination of their antagonistic, opposing features. Because this is a product of opposites, it cannot be logically derived. It's basically pre-Newton, pre-inductive reason and takes place in the active universe of people, plants, animals.

The end-poduct of inductive reason is of course a machine universe, where ethical issues are bound by random processes. This basic dichotomy is one interpretation of Moebius's The Airtight Garage. Giraud (like BWS) has intuitive senses that seem to bypass whole chunks of information-speak.

On one reading it seems to be composed of incompatible elements, in that the garage is 'hermetically sealed', but also 'Hermetic' in the ethical sense (historically, both these words refer to Alchemy, not to machines as in the story.)

The story is an investigation of who is running the garage of worlds-within-worlds. Jerry Cornelius, Major Grubert, or Sper Gossi? 

The concept of levels of reality is reminiscent of spiritual Hermeticism. Cornelius calls on the aid of the Nagual, or animal spirit. However, the top level is the universe of machines, implying the garage is simply a device that is programmable.

This incompatibility endures in the ending, where Major Grubert goes through door 9 into a modern subway. How can an artificial asteroid in space lead to a subway on Earth?

In short, has Moebius written (drawn) a 'Shaggy Doge' story of pure nonsense? It's possible, and it's a fun idea. While The Green Knight and other tales have nonsense elements, the ethical purity is always contained in physical reality.

In our age, the physical reality itself - the coordinated, antagonistic features of opposing elements of the body in action - is not there, not in control. The Airtight Garage could be read as an allegory of a nonsense land of authoritarian rules. A topsy-turvy land where, in the words and song of Moondog..

STAMPING GROUND

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Daily Mirror header

'It's messy in there', be it a teen's bedroom or a functional body-cell (prev.) For a start, mutations are a type of imperfection; if everything were copied perfectly and there were no problems there would be no mutations or progress.

Creativity and tidiness are not generally associated. In a cell the way things seem to function is through creative redundancy, with a lot of pseudo and misread genes that may at some point in the future become useful.

What does the 'use' apply to? Well, it applies to a body (physique) that exists in a state of balance; actively coordinated and proportionate. The imperfect redundancy of genes only makes sense if these are selected for in a balanced and coordinated universe of active bodily proportions.

In order words, the body reacting to events without the constant interference of thought! Not only the presence of routines, which I suppose will be present in any society to some extent, but the omni-presence of news.

News is the apotheosis of specialised routine, especially in the way that the more specialised something is the more it is convincing to the heads of acolytes (of the mirror of illusions, electromagnetic reflection, number, algorithm.)

So, what news does is interfere with the communal antics of bodies-in-motion which are reacting with noise and speech to the events around them. Whereas news is information that has to be taken-in (by the head), the dynamic self-sufficiency of a community is controlled and coordinated by sounds and speech and graceful motions.

The throat yelling wares in a bazaar; the hulabulu of desert-sore camels in a caravanserai; or, in a pulp-mode, the dance of Leyla in The Eye of Zeitoon (or the swordplay and taunts of Helene in Tros of Samothrace.)

While news is always convincing, it always has the weakness of information. Life in the raw is vastly more dependent on the proportionate throat - that swallows food, drinks, sings, breaths - than the mere sound of convincing information relayed by news channels.

Raducanu said she has a problem taking plates away "like any teen"; it's easier to be messy than tidy. Mess is also creative in that everything becomes an ecosystem in time - through decay - and tidiness is just delaying the inevitable.

Life in the raw has this primitive aspect - food and cleanliness loom large. 

One starlet, though, was much more down to earth, confides Ward Kelly. During a party, Kelly thought he should rustle up some food for his tipsy guests, and a young woman came into the kitchen to help. "He had her boiling hot dogs and he asked 'What's your name?' She said 'Marilyn'. It was Marilyn Monroe." (Gene Kelly's wife, DT)

One word for that is culture, that is attached to or attempts to improve on nature, but doesn't move away from it.

By contrast, news is becoming more and more algorithmic (numerical/monetary) and entering a parallel universe away from natural balance. Hence, away from control and coordination by song, speech, movement, rhythm.

European ligne-clair comic books often bring-out the natural rhythms of places because artists don't have to invent the atmosphere of places like Budapest.

Hungarian Rhapsody

Vittorio Guardino's style is different to that of Bilal (The Nikopol Trilogy, prev) but in both there is the same reliance on dramatic architecture to invest the story with atmosphere.

The Gothic trait of Batman has the same aim. It often strikes me there is a lot of fantasy in the 'realism' of atmospheric architecture because it lends itself to drama (BWS does the same in the opening of Young God's.)

These stories are a lot more than plot (in fact, plots can be threadbare). They are more like theatrical set-pieces that use realistic dramaaa and fantasy. Dramatic, naturalistic architecture has the stasis of stone against which the action is a counterpoint.

In a word, buildings are like bodies - as the Earth is (Ymir) - static bodies like sculptures. Instead of the confidence of routine news, there is the stasis that has the patina of age and where there are signs of untidiness or decadence.

The decadence is life in the raw; the sounds and speech and movements of food and frolics (a pig on the loose.)

The rawness is real and allows in the atmosphere of fantasy. The life lived physically is messy and has the aspect of a healthy psyche. The physical life has the tendency to approach an ecosystem, being close to nature.

I would liken Raducanu herself almost to a throwback, since her physical actions (on court) dictate her psychic disposition. She brutally sacked Richardson, the coach who had taken her into a grand-slam, owing to his lack of experience of grand-slam touring! Her freedom and looseness on the court will probably dictate what she takes from any training method, and not the other way round, as with so many athletes. It's the traditional oriental or Bruce Lee approach.

It wasn't a case of friendship but of the brute physicality of life on the court chasing majors. There was also throwing the match which McEnroe implied was nerves and which she coolly asserted was probably "not mental but physical" (excess.)

All of this indicates a closeness to nature in the raw that is a Howard-type hallmark. By contrast, news routines approach the vanishing-point of technique because they is where information and algorithms are heading (ones and zeros). Specialist routines convince the ego and they enter the mirror or illusions.

Being messy and normal is essentially the counter to this unreal future seen through mirrors. It's physically real and also allows in the psychic atmosphere of fantasy, the patina of age.

Creative mess is essentially what is found inside a cell, which is why scientists' DNA routines are really in a parallel reality that convinces the acolytes of what is far from real.

What seems to have happened in Wuhan (going by 'news'!) is a lab-chimera (hybrid) with enhanced spike for human-protease. Humans have plans, but once a virus gets released it is subject to the random mutations of nature.

Nature's only 'plan' is to create stable environments which are actively coordinated and proportionate. A lab does not have it; a body does have it and a jungle has it even more. Nature's plans rely on randomness, and scientists are drawn to the random because of the ability to tamper with RNA/DNA.

They then enter a parallel reality that has logical functions - that attract the ego of acolytes - without the underlying strength of the coordinated pursuits of animals, plants and people in stable environments (places of power.)

Scientists rely on doing without primordial precepts of active parts in order to a achieve results - in other words, in a logical universe that appeals to the ego of acolytes (of the mirror of illusions.)

As has been noted, techniques approach the vanishing-point of ones and zeros ( the dual-tone of Jirel Meets Magic, prev) or electromagnetic stimulation. All senses are forms of electromagnetism. This s is really a nightmare-land where nothing is either completely real or wholely false; where reality becomes dream and humans sleep with the machines (Kantner lyric.)

The way out of the predicament is to recognise the primordial and the primitive are harboured within our bodies; that our coordinated reactions in-the-wild link us to a physical reality and to an inner psyche they is truthful. Strong dream; strong wine.

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Memes like genes often give out too much information. One such meme was the 'spike protein' that mRNA copies and that supposedly might build-up in cells with multiple copies. Owing to degradation of mRNA, that seems not to be the case, and in any case the spike proteins are just junk that the cell degrades.

If something is present in a cell that is not recognised it tends to be regarded as junk. I don't think it's so much that mRNA vaccines are not necessarily effective, as that they will inevitably be used over and over again as is becoming more apparent.

Why should they be necessary? It has to be because mRNA works to stimulate the immune-system quite well, but the immune-response itself is weak. Therefore, we get more shots.

What I think is happening is that, while a celli's not a cybernetic universe (being cytoplasmic organelles), it can be treated like one owing to the sheer amount of copying and duplication between RNA, DNA and viral RNA that goes on inside the cell. Insertions, deletions and pseudogenes - inactive degraded mutations - are literally rampant.

Genes are partially junk owing to the number of miscopies and duplicates that exist. It's messy in there, but the positive angle and s that it can allow for selection of new genes that may be useful elsewhere. If the process was perfect, no mutations would occur (mutations are mistakes, in a way.)

So it's not so much that mRNA insertions for the purposes of a vaccine are adding much to the mix. They get degraded and all's the same as before. It's that the cybernetic treatment of cells allows the experts to think they are getting on top of the problem (the ego becomes misguidedly confident owing to the fact the issue seems to be 'getable'.)

But, life is not cybernetic. It's a physical game of antagonistic parts - muscle-pairs - that are freely balanced and proportioned for the purposes of active pursuits (running, hunting, fishing - well, maybe not the latter, deep-sea or netting, say.) 

When the body is in the game of active pursuits, life tends to be tougher and dirtier, and the emphasis on tidiness or clinical hygiene is much less. In a word, germs are probably rampant.

So, you have things like mud, animal detritus, microbes in soil. These things humans have been exposed to over evolution. 

The interior of a cell is one very small part of s reality that is extremely messy. Scientists don't really like things that are messy, and so they try and treat it as a cybernetic problem with a cybernetic solution.

But this does without the strengthening materials found in soil and in messy environments that are there to tell the immune-system that there are invaders and just to be ready and active to repel in case the more dangerous critters appear.

If life is an antagonistic game, the antagonists have to be around. Mud and dirt and messy stuff contain things that are not always beneficial, and the immune-system has to be exposed to such targets.

A cybernetic system - even given the fact that it works fine on its own terms - does not do this. It leads to a sense of false safety while requiring multiple doses just to stay still.

The complexity of copying and degradation in the cell lends itself to specialisation (which inevitably includes AI) , but it is not reality. Reality is the mess outside the cell that the cell needs exposure to. This happens when activity is antagonistic, muscular and outdoorsy.

The physical reality is also an inducement to psychic health. Both these doors are closed by the specialised doctrine of treating cells as cybernetic machines rather than as simply one small part of a messy reality.

The physical universe - or the natural one - is superior to any invented one for the fact that it has the uninhibited spark of creativity. Creativity in nature comes from the antagonistic motion of pairs of muscles - the world of action.

Man's brain has its uses in cultural advance - seemingly away from nature and into a cyberverse - but only if the cyberverse is s inherently superior can it be thought of as a true advance, and may instead be retrograde.

At this point, I have to admit that Raducanu's performance in winning 10 matches to take the US title has settled the issue for me. The ability not to think and just to act is an Oriental superiority that was previously demonstrated by Bruce Lee (Jeet Kune Do, prev.)

Training inhibits pure action because the thinking brain is over-reliant on routines. There is a limit to training, and that limit is when the brain merely acts to tactically adjust the body - which is then unleashed from thought.

The ability not to think but to act in what is a tactically superior position gave Raducanu the edge. The weakness of Western training methods that rely on strength and routine was exposed.

I put this down to an Oriental superiority of inner belief in the ability of the body; the lightning spark of creativity is unleashed.

The body is not a reasoning machine, it is a graceful product of antagonistic tension of opposites. If she had fallen, one might then have thought that perhaps the universe of cybernetic reasoning machines is as good or better, but she didn't.

Of course, you're entitled to ask why China in general doesn't do that well at tennis. Because they're not behaving in a very Chinese way! Their methods of training are routine and more routine.

The method of development inevitably leads to a false value of progress that inhibits free-flow. Free-flow is what a body in active, superior mode does with muscular athleticism (Nadia Comaneci). Training can only prepare it for that occasion, then the body's mechanisms take-over.

Scientists who study cells are simply imagining a parallel cybernetic universe that doesn't exist in reality. Reality is the physical condition of the muscular body-in-motion that has superior grace.

The scientific mind is looking through the reflection of a mirror of illusions that gives out the 'facts' of cellular mechanisms. But these are small facts compared to the facts of a body-in-motion, hunting or playing in the field amongst other creatures and the soil and plantlife of Mother Earth.

As has been stated previously the active life has its own empirical tradition derived from the tradition of living alongside nature, and in places of power. Fertility, strength, mineral, spring (see HB2).

The superiority of this world to the West's scientific illusion of empirical reason (induction, Newton) has been verified by the games witnessed a week or so since.

inspired by the royal 'R' (Raducanu, match)

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 Having seen the Raducanu post-victory press, it occurred to me she may not agree with my statements. This is someone who as a student was immersed in calculus and likely has faith in science.

Assuming that, if you look at the match highlights, she wins one point with a forehand down the line; there is no thought because thinking slows you down. She is intimidating owing to that quality.

It's something the person may no even realize. They are better than the practice because they are natural. The faith in science is misplaced owing to the intellect giving too much credence to the logic; it will be interesting to see the if she stays this natural or is gradually corrupted by 'them'.

Well, the comment I posted on swordsofreh above seemed to sum-up the T-shirt design coming-up from artist Elena, which is titled "Destruction of the new.. By the old".

A specialist, trained in routine, lives in the head of rather than in physical reality. Routine cannot compete with natural flow. The paradigm we live in has now been comprehensively defeated by Raducanu, so I think it's worthwhile summing-up what aspects of tennis reflect this old-order that is being revived.

From the purely visual aspect, the looped forehand winner in the 2nd set (shown in slo-mo) is a Bjorn Borg trademark. Apart from the sex of the performer, there's totally no difference in the stroke; it's a purely instinctive and lethal use of reaction with no thought. 

It happens because the racket is being swung freely with no predetermination. The bane of the modern game is when the power-shot overrides shot-making; why should tennis advance if it is no longer a game, and more like an ordeal? 

Raducanu has some habits - such as playing a forehand to open-court from return of serve - but is able to adjust to each game.

What caught people off-guard was her breezing through 10 matches with not even a set-point against her; this simply points to how similar the opposition is. They are power first and placement and free-swing second. The only exception is the other teen, Fernandez.

These two are able to destroy specialization that is too alike with the old-time values of a game that flows freely - flows in spontaneous rhythm. Specialists agonize about psychological tension because they don't fully inhabit the game. In the days of Borg/McEnroe, any tension came from the ebb-and-flow of the match rather than from some physical problem that is really masquerading as mental (vis Sakkari quote.)

In the same way, the physical problems of the modern world - that are numerous - masquerade as mental (by contrast, Raducanu's injury was manifest.) Instead of a physical solution to our problems - which would entail a revival of free-ranges and jungle-beats (see Lee Perry) - we get endless specialist routines, duly relayed by news networks.

Since we live in a world of the head, we maybe don't often recognise it as such, but that is what news is; if there were fewer specialist routines there would be less news!

As was already noted, the biggest specialist routine of all is DNA, since that attracts the ego of acolytes like flies to a dungheap. Modern methods often depend on a weakened system - immune, psychological - in order to treat it with ever-more advanced methods.

This is what you call big-hitting, that deals with life as a routine rather than a set of balanced, coordinated responses. Some responses are lightning - as with Raducanu or Borg - and their spark is lost.

America has now become the false $ (Apollo) of pure routine and throwing money at problems, rather than allowing the body-in-motion to simply act. This applies to whether it's cowboys on the range, Indians or streetwise blacks in relatively self-sufficient communes (see Foxy Brown, prev.)

The same point was made awhile back on Detroit (Drama3), which kept its communal identity in the face of federal pressure, became poor and rough, then revived through investment and solidarity.

What I'm basically saying is news is information that applies increasingly to the head as opposed to the body. The head is attracted by routines and specialist schemes that involve logic and manipulation of numbers (dollars), but in the process the coordinated game of life is lost.

Instead of this false sameness of physical weakness that has a corresponding psychic confusion, athletes are antagonistic on the court - 'the smiling assassin' - and the body functions are antagonistic, coordinated pairing of muscles. Push and pull.

I mean, the freedom of physical response inevitably leads to psychic calm; one is living by one's wits as a hunter did. Life lived as a muscular game cannot be micro-managed by 'them' to the detriment of freedom of physical expression. 

Raducanu has shown the way with her uninhibited play; it is still possible to defeat routine and stymie advance when the future of the game is at stake. We are advancing into a cage that attracts a certain type; the type that advocates robotic routine with no possibility of recovery through physical strength and resilience. The type that lives in the head is psychically weak because psyche is thoroughly dependent on the physical reality.

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 'Is there any expectation?' responded Raducanu after her semi-final victory.

This is a key remark, since the Raducanu's seem to 'raducalise', as a family unit, a paradigm-shift from the head - sports psychologists and motivation - to the body - flow-of-action.

Yes, with the extensive coverage I've been reading about the family unit. Chinese inner strength was already mentioned; her Romanian father is raducal in another way, apparently taking the attitude that each shot deserves a separate trainer!

This is probably apocryphal,but is still a trail-bossism that says the person doing the action tells the coach what they want and not the other way round.

This brings-up the second difference, that the specialised heavy-hitters are now facing the return of real tennis in the form of shot-making.

A specialist is trained, is told what to do, and when two specialists meet it's fairly routine. By instead saying routines are what you do off the court, Raducanu (as well as her opponent Fernandez) changes the game back to speedy, flexible shot-making.

This probably explains why the old-timers (the unspoilt old) are really digging the young blood (the unspoilt young).

Raducanu hits the ball low and early, which is more a directional than a power-shot. The Telegraph also had an analysis of her return, which goes at the feet of the server.

I suppose that latter might've true, but even more so for more ponderous, robotic heavy-servers. Someone like Fernandez should be able to adjust and step sideways or back-off.

The general drift is the robotic, specialised game of routine power is now under attack from shot-makers who are above all flexible and don't rely on rote.

At this point, you may ask why all this discussion of a mere game? The answer is that a physical game gives clear indications to the false reality of specialist routine that we unfortunate moderns appear to inhabit. Sakkari, for example, seemed like she was totally bemused by the sudden rise of realism, and thought she and the others 'hadn't been at their best.'

Seemingly implying a mental rather than physical lack, or that physical shortcomings are somehow psychological! The same applies to the entire Western paradigm; a weak, destabilised system can only recover through physical strength and resilience.

The physical and the psyche are related, and one could almost say Raducanu has an Oriental insouciance that is the mark of the Mongolian warrior. The Eastern warrior-in-action is not thinking, they are moving and acting.

They are not team-players (somewhat like Illyana Rasputin, prev) and can be harsh,but the physical is constantly related to psychic insouciance.

Of course, this is the total opposite of a Western-style democracy where psychological motivation is the only game in town. Politicians become the same logical egotists of the false $ (Apollo).

All this is really the confusion of specialised routine with playing the game of life.

In Rome, Pliny the Younger had his gardener trim his own name out of topiary right next to that of the master. Pliny himself was held in high esteem as both a lawyer and a Curator of the Bed and Banks of the Tiber and the City's Sewers.. Politicians doubled as priests. Mathematicians were engineers and philosophers.. In our obsession with specialising.. we've lost all sense of the joy that can be found in combining different types of knowledge. 

We should stop worrying about how pursuing any particular branch of knowledge makes us look, and follow the Romans - learning this, learning that, doing what satisfies us most. Not everything has to be useful, not everything has to be goal-oriented. As any ancient builder could have told you, learning always has been more than just another brick in the wall. (Daisy Dunn (classicist), DT)

Or the illusory brick of DNA, which is the biggest routine of all and attracts the ego of acolytes of the mirror of illusions.

Instead of a logically 'getable' routine, life is a physical game of antagonistic parts, where balance and coordination are the winners.

Forgetting this fact opens the door to weakness and illusion (the egotistical head) and closes the physical reality that is related to psychic calm.

The planets spin; the psyche emanates in Madame Blavatsky's Theosophy; physical attributes are real and imbue us with mental fortitude.

Anything else is not reality; it is a specialisation that sooner-or-later comes up against reality- and is stymied.

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 Picture a dollar bill. Ostensibly it's a means of exchange, the symbolic value of exchange whether Roman coins or later with the Royal Exchange in Tudor London (prev.)

Exchange has now given-way to a monetary system where money is spent but not paid for. The logic of this system.is only that it has a monetary logic that appeals to logically-inclined heads. Since money has no intrinsic value (unlike goods), the value is non-human. Let's call it Martian.

All modern politicians are non-human or Martian economists, spending money that does not exist and isn't paid for. Biden, Johnson, Bolsanero, Xi. The only exceptions might be Baerbock of the German Greens, or Marine le Pen of the French Rally, but neither seem destined for power. 

Why do politicians become the same 'type'? Because they are attracted to logic and tend to be convinced by logical arguments, as opposed to balanced human objectives (health, happiness.)

Anything human is "four days, five days ago", whereas logical trains of thought have an abstract, egotistical value that never dies. The process is just the more obvious sign that we are entering a future of algorithm instead of human reality.

Human reality is inarguably of the body. As Anita Roddick of The Body Shop says,

The fashion industry wants to control you. And the way they do it is through your body. Once they control your body, theyy control your purse and the products you buy. It's a fantastic strategy and it's working.

The body is run by the (corporate) head, the language of which is monetary. The language of the body is balance. As noted previously, the illogical proportions have their own internal logic (the logic of desire - see prev O Henry and the old-style tenements.)

The language of the jungle is dank and furtive (see Lee Perry); the language of economics is dead and sterile. But since a jungle has its own power of recovery and certain physical dangers, it is not as logically viable as an economic system.

All this is a matter of fairly recent history - far less than 10,000 years, more like 200. But the 'accelerating future' (of Anisimov and the futurists) becomes more rapid owing to the speed of algorithmic 'thought' (information).

Has it occurred to anyone that China may be ahead of the West here, in that they can concentrate brains in a type of hydridisation with the machine?

They achieved on Mars in one-shot what took NASA decades of development and, as has previously been noted, space is the algorithmic frontier. Apart from that, we are living in the effects of the Chinese virus (originating in Wuhan province.)

The virus, as certain right-wing sectors have pointed-out, makes authoritarian rules much more universal. Could China have planned this algorithmically?

I'm not anti-Chinese; I'm anti a certain type of thought that gives credence to algorithms over human balance. As was previously noted, Minnesota University's Institute of the Environment is a world-leader in 'ecological economy', and they have determined that destabilising rough ecosystems (such as jungle) releases viruses that were hosted by the jungle inhabitants.

Balance is a physical phenomenon (of fertility and strength) but also one of psychic integration. Emma Raducanu, who's half-Chinese, was quoted as saying the ancient Chinese tradition of inner self- belief (as opposed to simple achievement) was very important to her.

Raducanu is a good example of a very balanced individual, the very balance that modern China has lost to Communist misrule. A land of logic and brain cannot have the language of the antagonistic body that is psychically integrated. It can only have a sterile language of advanced boredom - or advance into boredom. The land of ones ones and zeros - the duo-tone if Jirel Meets Magic (prev.)

So this is not bigotry against China since, after all, they are doing much the same as we are, maybe better! It's just stating visible facts anyone can see, and asking questions. 

The jungle is strong - eternal. The Martian arena of non-human value is weak and cannot outlast the strength of the jungle. Coming to terms with that equation calls for balance, nimble footwork in places of power on Mother Earth well away from the domain of boredom occupied by the white man's head (Musk &Co) and its oriental counterpart.

Modern techniques work, as has been pointed-out previously. But technique is not everything; there's also balance. Without the balance of a jungle (or even a tennis court), the vigor of physical reality is no longer there, and the techniques are always treating symptoms of weak, destabilised systems. Added to that is loss of inner self- belief, psychic disintegration.

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 Long-term readers may recall the long quote from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight detailing the skinning and butchering of newly-slaughtered deer at a hunt from one of the castles on the virtuous knight's jaunt.

I just thought of this looking at Kemp's antiquarian blades, since whether it's a knife used for skinning, a butcher's cleaver or a short-thrust dagger, the technique and type of instrument are related 

A blade is a dealer of death or a dealer with death. Almost the best thing about a medieval-style banquet is that one gets to dismember and butcher the game. It's ripe, but with a decent edge the pieces fall to bits with artistic panache

The ripeness of life is not something one is aware of nowadays; one is living so much in the head as to be inside an illusion. This is what I meant by the head attached to the body as the prime-mover instead of the body and the hidden processes of the body dictating most activities.

In the latter guise, one gets the logic of the illogical (Corneille) - meaning the antagonistic masses of the body that slot into position. Instead of this truth of ripeness that is the stuff of life (and death), the modern ego is attracted further and furthr into a parallel world of the head where smells and ripeness are almost verbotten.

The ultimate problem of this future is that all sense-impulses are forms of electromagnetism, and one is simply being led into a future where AI is the reality, in terms of expressive-algorithms and so on (see prev Japanese example.)

A head may be expressive, but one can be sure the stories it is told to recite by "them" will be the ones they desire for their own purposes; that is, of sameness as opposed to difference.

But the fact is a body is composed of disparate elements, as is a traditional commune of hunters or priests or women-of-the-field and crops and burns and pond-life.

Differences and antagonisms contain logic and illogic. Anything else is simply a parallel realiy of sameness and delusion of acolytes of electromagnetism.

On a contemporary footing, I noticed teen-sensation Raducanu was trained to think of her blocked-backhand as a shield, and her full-blooded forehands a sword.

The language of the body is ever-antagonistic. The way out of the modern dilemma is asserting the physical footing of the athletic body - the use of language - over and above the sterile language of Bezos, Musk and other robots of a future of neverending boredom and psychic disintegration.

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Where modernity approaches the vanishing-point of technique -algorithm or ones and zeros - it is forever departing from the primitive, something fundamental to a body. I mean above all rhythms that interweave and interlock and release or counterpoint.

Advance is simply an escape from the primitive; the body is a jungle of assorted activities that somehow combine their disparate elements into one.

In a way, the heavy, murky rhythms of Lee Perry's dub recordings - especially Super Ape from 76 - are a good signpost to bodily, as opposed to logical, creativity.

Perry may be a genius-level creator, but his body is attached to his head as he dances and works, rather than the conventional Western method of attaching the head to the body in a relatively dormant position.

"My insides are my outsides.. See, I take my insides and I put them outside for my fans, and all the people who love my music. For I give them the light. I'm Mr Lee Perry. Ha ha ha! I am the President, the Upsetter, Death's conqueror, I am everything.. I am flame, flames of fire. Scratch on the wire. I am on top of the music, walking on top of the music, it is under my feet (DT)

Nor exactly humble, but I guess someone in that synergistic state doesn't need to be. The simplicity of having 4-tracks also gives the edge to chance in the choices that Perry makes in transferring the 3 single tracks onto the 4th multiple recording.

The airy notes of "Black Vest", that relocates Max Romeo's " War Ina Babylon " to the distant sounds of a beach band heard from the thickets of primeval undergrowth 

BLACK VEST

The sensual, bodymorphic (underclothes?) disparity of sounds is a rebuttal to a world of pure logic and information-flows. The primal.nature of things is always going to be rhythmic and sensual; information is always a secondary event from the one.

Living things are semi-compartmentalised, and their very disparity provides unity. There's no such thing as unity without difference; it simply means a parallel reality of sameness.

Schismatic effects create united form (see prev). Athletic grace is the end-product. The head is always useful at this point in the game, but the body is primal and assertive. Balance is always the key.

Hence, one can see Perry as a shamanistic type of mind, the mind living off a jungle of effects that is millions (billions) of years old. Everything has a part to play, from.the phlegm of respiratory passages to the fungus of some ramshackle jungle clearing ("Fungus Rock/Dub", a metaphor for sex-viruses.)

The real.problem is that a logical universe is very convincing to the ego (of acolytes) even if it is in a parallel illusion. This is always a slight flaw of the comic book fantasy, actually. Starlin's Warlock is great, but has the limit of having to be logically-consistent when inconsistency can be more dramatic and haphazard (Avengers: Illuminati is the ultimate in the over-consistent illusion of logic.)

A magician has logic as part of their equipment along with haphazard chance, and the disparate sounds and effects of the environment. Most logical processes on Earth, after all, are absolutelt haphazard.

The carbon and nitrogen cycles are composed of bodily remains and respiratory processes that are events of the random environment. The fact us that logic is not logical simply because the power of natural processes overridrs everything.

There is a place for logic; and there is also a place for haphazard power. There is a place for marine bone (in red clay for building); and there is a place for Man's constructions.

A little reasoning goes a long way. Excess nitrogen in fertilizer creates algal blooms and the good, nitrogen-fixing microbes in soil go to waste. Every haphazard process has a logic (such as an animal hunting prey), but the point is that both are necessary for power.

Forest and jungle are sources of power and psychic health (wisdom or apothecary). This sense is felt throughout the fantasy of, not only Howard, but also Noto and various Conan yarns such as the aforementioned "Gods of the Mountains".

In the latter story, Valeria accompanies the Cimmerian on a delirious trek through caverns under the forest in a sequel to " Red Nails". The phosphorescent splendour is not unlike Noto's underworld scenario from "Red Lace" (prev); instead of carnivorous plants, the duo encounter rotten-smelling moss (which is apparently edible, if not to Val) and giant fungus, as well as the skeleton of a dragon amongst other hazards.

Fungus is known as 'suspicious meat', and this odoriferous subterranean world of twilight has s sense of decadence and decay that are sources of strength in organic substance.

The process of digestion and intestinal fauna are the equivalent of the breakdown of decay, and the strength that results is bodily strength.

A subterranean world of horrid meat and smelly plants evokes also the insides of the body; possibly this was an implication of Perry's remarks on his creativity.

A funky or murky rhythm brings into the picture bodily strength which is hidden or obscured by the visual aspect of form. A source of strength is mor logically derived from the head, but is harboured inside the body.

This is a decadent area that contains at least the scents of decay because this is also a source of strength in life. Perry makes the point thstbhw contains'both positives and negatives', but is a source of light.

That point is that stories that are lusty and gusty as with this one, need a source of Dionysian gusto. It could be the wind wheeling down a mountain; it could be caverns measureless to man. A logical.order of the head cannot contain a gusto that is hidden by the form of the body; that is not advancing into a sterile future of ones and zeros, but is harbouring decadence and decay.

The rhyming cadences of Perry might not be as clarified to modern ears as is an algorithmic routine, but he makes the point of 'inside worth' quite explicitly in "Blackboard Jungle Dub" (from Doublestandart.) This ancient source of strength is also found in Fulling (P156).

If living things are antagonistic by nature and design (athletic), they contain multitudes in Whitman' expression. The murky and odoriferous zones are strong in Noto, Howard and assorted Howardesque yarns, as well as the jungle fastness of Perry's domain.

They are not found in a logical (Apollonian) order since such an order has not the primitive gusto of underground beats. 'Underground route to Hollywood' (Perry lyric). Weird Tales.

In the sense that antagonism and schism (prev) are needed for bodily function, these decadent fantasies and murky rhythms have the truth of the matter.