Ye West Philosophy

West is more of an active philosopher though not what one would call political. I've divided it into 3 main parts.

1) Language 

West's use of language is a combination of brash and metaphorical. A good example is his duscu8with Lex Where he says Blacks are "Jew". They inherited 400 years of slavery until, like Moses, they were led to freedom by God.

He is speaking more Biblically than literally. Christians are also Jew in that the New Testament is a Jewish chronicle of followers of Moses and Abraham. 

West's language is inclusive, so how does one square it with the "love" of Nazis? At this point the YouTube channels have decides he is not antisemitic, so I'll just put it down to brashness! (they incline to the view he "played" Adidas to force them to cut ties.)

2) Creative Force

To what extent are celebrities also the "influencers" that West derides as "engineered"? I think it depends on the creative level. West wants a new era of creative humanity, and those creators will be independent of influence (except the creative one.)

3) Psyche 

Tying those together, the highest creative force is God, and West is being 100percent Christian in approaching the good and the influence of the creator on others. The Biblical style of language is reminiscent of Black gospels. 

That type of psychic language of creativity is anathema to mainstream media, which one could represent as manipulative (of individuals) and godless. The "engineered" people are godless and uniformly soulless. They abduct celebrities (even possibly his ex wife Kim.)

Supporters of West on YouTube are on the side of the free individual who uses discretion in their use of language. It's only intelligent, a sign of the creative spirit or a sign of the creator. Opposed to this is mammon, represented by corporations. 

There is confusion. Kardashian is an intelligent individual but one could almost mistake her for a corporation continually selling the clothes and scents she wears. Kim is confused, and the confusion spills over how cancel culture should be justly used. The confusion spills into American life and communication by media.

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 I seem to recall invoking High School Musical awhile back, which some might say is the antithesis of pulp decadence a la Jaime Hernandez. In one way that is so, but one has to give Disney credit for the revivalist theme of 'togetherness through difference' that vibrates through the swinging sequences. 

The only problem is that revival comes from the murkiness that Disney makes a point of steering clear of. It's a fairy tale version that tries not to get into the darkness, though there are often hints of European gargoyles in the best offerings, such as Pinicchio's Stromboli. 

By murky, one really means the original fairy tale influence that sees Red Riding Hood as akin to Red Sonja in her titillating appeal (see Roy Thomas story.) 

There is a weird mixture of naive innocence with the randy and the sultry that is evocative of Margaret Brundage's Weird Tales. Sleeping Beauty, for instance, was not awakened by a kiss but with the bestial lust of copulation. 

In Disney, despite its cartoon origins, the animal side of things is warily traversed, which is the murkiness of the forest glade where animals scuttle and forage, satyrs dance.

Steep incline of the Victorian-flavored leas in my neighbourhood

Roy Krenkel, fighting satyrs 

Disney could be basically slimier and darker and more bestial while still preserving the old values. Troy Bolton and Gabriella Montez could be less squeaky clean and they'd still have a heroic sheen. In the animal cartoons, there is often a subtext that leaves little difference between frolicking and fornication.

Also, that's a type of Black sensibility that later became associated with Elvis Presley. The carnal lust that is lacking in modern Disney is the murkiness that inhabits the pulp ecosphere, largely by way of the naturalistic milieux.

Conanesque murk is the woodland situation where the savagery and lustiness expose ancient instincts of primal combatitiveness and protectiveness of the fertile and precious, men over women.

This physical side also invokes reactionary values. The values were espoused by Sean Connery, who was known for insisting on a sharp slap as a reasonable retort to feminine wiles!

The fertility of women predisposes power and wiles that men combat with a physicality that is restrained and manly. The lust that women inspire was skillfully satirised by BWS in The Pizza Story (prev), featuring Princess Adastra and the worshipful Aran Kashan.

By the end he is so aroused he is dreaming of the velvety down of her backside. R. Crumb had another unstoppable force of nature in Devil Girl, who vibrates with salivating lust to Flakey Foont's demise (the French film P'tit Con, based on the strip by Lauzier who also directed, has a similar theme of the formidable female.)

The murkiness of lust has primeval insistence that song and dance invoke. The sacrificial dancing maiden on Stravinsky's Rite of Spring is a case-in-point. 

So, murkiness is really the absence of light and the places where satyrs frolic in hidden glades. Where light is dominant, one gets the situation of the dual-note of Jirel Meets Magic (prev), the confusion and distortion of endless reflections (SR9).

In other words, where there is no murkiness, light distorts with reflections; where there is murkiness, light is destroyed and converted into leaves (photosynthesis.)

The conversion of light is the cyclical system of Earth (Gaia) or Earthspin. Antagonistic motions, or snake-rhythm, is a celebration of primal fertility. Dance, the celebration of invariable time of which we are part (as opposed to a cog in variable machine-time.) Primeval, sensual and archetypal; the snake as a symbol of the active body in nature, which is easy to relate to Jung, as distinct from Freud. Put another way, sex symbolizes the active principle in nature - see discussion of Freud and capital P218.

With the conversion of light, the cycles of decay and revival are set. The murky and feminine fertility is where one can find fault with Disney. 

Dankness and foul-smelling waters and the decadence of bleak woods make the revival that sustains spirit and the freedom from routines of endless reflections. 

The Disney ideal needs a bit of dirt and smell to retain this type of primal invocation - one could also invoke Moore/Gebbie's Lost Girls as the Dionysian side to lusty and circular living that machine living denies, prev. The political, neutral, numerical zone of words of neutral value - the neutral zone of sex - machine as opposed to bodies-in-motion within a social milieu (nature, cycle of planet.)

"France is a veritable powder keg, that's nothing new", said Guy Groux, social movement specialist at Cevipof, the centre for political research at Science Po. "There is a sort of magic to social anger. It's hard to say how all the ingredients come together. During the first student demos in 1968, some commentators said: 'It's just a few rag parades'. We saw how that ended."

Present day French protests are about money; student protests were about the world view and philosophy of living. Lauzier's film (made 1984) harks back to the hippy era with the guy hanging out with a 'babba cool' in his loose communal home, talking filth at the table, acting loosely in a communal situation.

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 VAN LEAR ROSE

The eponymous song off the impeccable Jack White collaboration gets to the root of the physical sequences that establish a community. 

Aging instills a circular revival, somewhat like The Circle R ranch in Red Ryder does. Beauty ages while love - as in EC Tubb's classic Dumarest yarn Kalin - doesn't. When one is pulling or marrying then one has the aging factor in mind, which is part of what love is (attachment.)

The humanoid tendency (SR8) is blind to aging, as it is to sex differences or, clearly, race. Sequential development entails exposure to the physical reality of nature, where the air circulates and freshens the spirit. 

The physical health of young ones clearly impacts on their mental health, as this quote by Mirror columnist Siobhan McNally on her 14 year old daughter (TDL) attests. 

I try to point out to TDL when she and her friends complain they're bored, unhappy and have difficulty sleeping, that it's hardly surprising when the only light they see most days is the blue light from their screens.

More mental health is critical for our young people right now, but many of the teenagers want a quick fix-a pill to take away the pain.

When what they really need is my old granny, who'd switch off their PCs, and say, "Awa' ootside  an bile yer heid." (TDL=The Dark Lord, presumably for her hair.)

Physical sequences are songs playing in invariable time (rhythm), whereas the machine distorts rhythms and places them in variable time (orbitsville.)

Love and beauty and the lifecycle can only be distorted by the humanoid offerings of Musk&Co. In his recent lecture, Musk offhandedly referred to the future 'sexual applications' of his humanoids. 

However, that can only occur with the corresponding corruption of natural rhythms, otherwise known as the profane serpent (prev.) One could imagine a sequel to Van Lear Rose.

When I was old I got me a robot slave

'Cos the Van Lear rose had passed away

It was good in the sack and I had myself a ball

No more need for that beauty now at all

Love & Rockets, in the pulp sense of the Hernandez Bros, always entails a recognition (reimagining) of the shambolic reality of the a priori settings of Americana.

The leftover people who inhabit the fly-infested condo-commune of Capri in Ghost of Hoppers (Jaime, prev.)

The foul-smelling waters of the abandoned swimming pool symbolise the abandonment of government and the seepage of decay into the pseudo-commune of semi-isolated, leftover, Hispanic-slanted weirdos.

Take away governance, and that is the a priori reality of the California ghetto. As government approaches the humanoid and the inhuman, the real world inhabits pulp-oriented milieux that have the aging beauty of natural lifecycles, rather than the hygienic utilitarian. Utility is the absence of physical rhythm, the end result being the pure mental content of ones and zeros. The dual-note of Jirel Meets Magic ( prev) that distorts and confuses with endless reflections (electromagnetism, sun, Newton, induction.)

Decadence invokes a revival of spirit that is in the joy of freedom from routines that benefit only robots. When that happens, the revival of unregimented communal spirit is the payback that no amount of individual wealth can possess. (Incidentally, Tommy Cook who played Little Beaver in Red Ryder was bleating with nostalgia or melancholy in an interview with Skip E Lowe. Perhaps for the antagonistic motions of the horses of yore.)

Appallingly enough, people seem to believe that, because things are hygienic and tidy, they are also beneficial, but the opposite is true. The physical reality is disordered (decay, dried buffalo manure), and the disorder leads to revival of a fertile order.

Within this milieu, loneliness is assuaged by communal bliss. The physicality is a health boon, so both aspects of existence are taken into account by simply letting things be without governing them into extinction.

Governance becomes a mandate for the verbal/numerical future so effectively pilloried by JK Rowling (SR8).

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness (Keats)

Ghost of Hoppers, Jaime Hernandez 

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 My parents definitely pushed history on us; to know the history of the world and history of African-Americans was super important.. I think the most important lesson was for us nor to see colour.. People might see your colour, but that's not how you see the world. (Venus Williams)

This is a very typical outlook of seeming togetherness, whereas the affinity of differences (see passim) depends not necessarily on togetherness but on seeing things from a similar perspective from a psychic affinity of strength (independence, self-reliance.)

This depends on the type of active culture that is no longer that visible in the mainstream. IE the Bones Bros Ranch. This implies a fertile community qbd the sequences of events that herald a community. Birth, growth, motherhood, relatives, neighbours. 

Sequences of events are active, while words are not active per se, or in other words they can describe action or not. The basic conundrum is epitomised by the establishment scholar David Patrikarakos of How Social Media is Reshaping Conflict. 

This has become a favorite of war zealots who seem to think that wars can be harnessed by words much better than they can by battlefield equipment. This is a pretty mad concept that adds to the hyena-like drivel already spewing from super-saturated multimedia channels. 

If we were run by mad Martians it might make sense, but the type of people who represent that world are different to the type who engage in active pursuits, whether on the battlefield, or in the harvesting field.

This was brought home by watching Red Ryder, the 50s Republic serial from the eponymous strip. The plot is a standard good/bad one of corrupt land-grabbers and bankers versus sturdy men and women of the earth defending their landholdings. 

Whereas Venus Williams seems to want to neutralise her racial differences, Little Beaver is an all-out Indian scout speaking cute pigeon english (reminiscent of Connie.)

Little Beaver's resourcefulness and native cunning are constant plot spurs. Despite his age he is an expert horseman and spies villainy from on high riding the sierra. His diminutive stature also enables him to eavesdrop.

Little Beaver makes a good advertisement for native resourcefulness. The problem with moderns is they neutralise differences, tending to diminish the contributions of the traditional, active breeds as opposed to the modern breed which is all words and no action.

Venus Williams doesn't apply her tennis flair to real life. Instead, the active sort of life is cut-off and the black power agenda neutralised.

Nevertheless, the ebony mask is beautiful in a slightly different way to the white nations. In a similar way, the dreamy countenance of Sacheen Littlefeather is representative of native Americans. 

Canned Heat (SR7) have a sort of mixture of dreamy and primal natures, and they represent the type who are by nature active, whether instrumentally or in the field, rather than talkative.

Granted, Alan Wilson could hold a conversation with ease, he was a dreamy individual who would have been lost in the age of social-media (or possibly  orbited)

Similarly, Red Ryder (played by Don Barry) is a man who's words are strictly related to his actions. After all, if you're in a saloon challenging three men to a fight, it's better to stay alive than bandy words. 

Red Ryder represents an era where the culture developed through sequences of events rather than through (the political) verbal sphere. Galloping horses, posses, scouting Indian, rough-house. 

Sequences of events can be described by words (poetically, natch), and that is the traditional, physical reality. Sequences of events imply birth, raising, motherhood, neighborhood. As in the Cannwd Heat song, one gets back 100-fold what one puts in.

Parenthetically, a body has to develop as a sequence of events in a hierarchical sense or nothing would make sense or be enabled to be self-motivated, see prev on DNA etc. Articulate hierarchy is the snake-shape of truth; look at the skeletal legs' entwined vessels.

Tuareg nomads of North Africa

The sequential reality, the biological physical reality, is under threat from words. JK Rowling recently made this acid comment about Scottish premiere Sturgeon..

SS

..relating to Scottish legislation enabling self-defining gender. As Rowling's message implies, it's a purely verbal proposition, not a real one.

The problem with the Venus Williams approach is that if one is race blind one can be sex blind or age blind. Differences are neutralised and it instils a humanoid, neutral agenda (of the Musk, Soros, Patrikarakoses.)

Cowboys and Indians don't need to be verbal, but they are articulate within a hierarchical development of the old communities of the land. They are literate, active people inhabiting wide open spaces that psyche and fire the blood.

RIP Sacheen Littlefeather

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 According to Pamela Geller, George Soros is the arch-global parasite of capital that bends people to the corporate will. She quotes this speech by new Italian premiere Georgia Meloni.

It's not in our national interest to sign our borders over to the UN. The Migration Compact is exactly what is needed by those who have used illegal immigration in recent decades to complete the grand plan of financial speculation to deprive nations and people of their identities. 

Because without roots you're a slave, and when you're a slave you serve the interests of Soros.

Geller, for all her faults, is a patriot and the sovereign spirit always has land as a broad concensus, even if several generations removed.

Land is the physical, articulate reality that 'they' (meaning Soros, Musk and cohorts) seek to replace with humanoids and global sameness. Unfortunately, in Britain, Truss adds just another cog (though hopefully the Brazilians willbr rid of ballsy, Bolshie Bolsonaro.)

The similarities that 'they' want neutralise differences, something which Jean-luc Godard likened to the neutral zone in sex (SR5,6). However, this is an illiterate view of reality since large-scale similarities are always seen in the diverse forms of nature - constellations, tree limbs, galloping horses, pansies bending (see passim.)

Large-scale similarities are the result of hierarchical development (or the principle of continuity that implies invariable time, or spin, see P200.) So, one has to differentiate between global capital which denies diverse cultural development (of sovereign states), and simply the capitalist ethic or drive to profit. 

The basic division between the 'good' and 'bad' sides of capital can be seen in a traditional Ranch, and this quote is telling.

We now understand that our soils with grazing animals have the capacity to sequester carbon way more quickly and more efficiently than anything else. So I think keeping grasslands whole and intact is vital, and something that every one of us should care about. (Jeanie Alderson of Bones Bros Ranch - the name originates from cowpoke and B movie actor Floyd Taliaferro Alderson.)

A Ranch has to act as a capitalist enterprise in order to survive, but the a priori aspects of its existence are, according to Jeannie, "grass, water and community."

In other words, capital may have some abstract traits, but the physical reality is dominant. From the physical reality develops the spiritual side and the psyche that relishes the wide open spaces of prairie. 

The physical is the hierarchical reality of antagonistic movement (muscles, galloping), while abstract capital is the mental reality of numbers (algorithms.)

So, American capitalism - because it's American - has always been physical and more or less on the side of the people. Of course, there have been corporate issues, such as Theo Roosevelt's anti-trust laws, which slanted the agenda towards land holders and away from the rail tycoons.

This sort of stuff is a regular plot element in 40s Republic serials, in those cases often dealing with Latin American natives (Tiger Woman) or Africans. In all these cases there are good whites and bad whites, more or less in line with 'good' capitalist and 'bad' capitalist.

The basic problem with the modern scene is that the large-scale similarities (of differences) - health and virtue - are less visible as we approach the neutral zone of sameness - weakness, susceptibility to germs etc. The lab becomes 'real' while reality becomes a fable.

The end result of this is that we are told that beef is 'bad' for a green environment, and probably we'll get exposed to 'clean-meat' (lab bred.) But, actually, soil and livestock, grazing, ranching and activating communities in song and dance and work are what produce green environments. 

This is obviously true worldwide - whether Russia, China, India or Japan - and speaks of the diversity of cultures with active roots on large-scale similarities. 

Of those, India has backtracked from the corporate model (see Modi, prev), while Japan still appears to operate an American-style model. Land-grabbing is another corporate threat that often relates to subsurface fossil fuels. Bones Bros Ranch fended off talk of strip mining and coal bed methane, and Jeannie says,

If you care about your place, if you care about your livelihood, you've got to join with others, and you've got to talk, and you've got to share what you know, and you will get it back a hundredfold... Yeah, it takes some stretching, it takes some courage, but you'll have  community, you'll have a family, you'll have people who will have your back when probably nobody else will.

Land-grabbing and clean-meat are just two aspects of the tendency of a global capital agenda to neutralise differences and instil a humanoid, neutral agenda (of age, sex, race) that is basically infertile and hygiene-compulsive.

Articulate (hierarchical) development and the literate, active people inhabiting wide open prairies are the way out of the conundrum.

LET'S WORK TOGETHERyoutu.be/wGGW4IezbC4

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 To the Right capital is a resource; to the Left socialism is a resource. But at the very start of Godard's Film Socialisme (2010) is the following exchange set against seawater. 

Money is a public good.

Like water then?

Exactly.

This harks back to the 16th century and the establishment of the Royal Exchange in London () as a resource for the exchange of goods from the continent and further afield (the Silk route.)

Goods are themselves resourced from the natural world or basically the ultimate resource. IE, mountains, rivers, goatherds etc. Capital itself is not a resource since it is just a numerical system composed of money (used as exchange). The problem with the modern system is that for all its cleverness, it's illiterate in terms of the articulate reality. IE, the 3 dimensions of space and the 1 of time.

All that capital can do in the long term is to enable an uncertain reality (SR5) that is a type of hyper-real illusion built by machines. Machines are themselves numerical in that logic dictates that they become numerical as opposed to purely mechanical. 

So, the logical pursuit of capital is a fait accompli of logical machines (in variable time, natch.)

The certain world (of the psyche) is the one of images that inspire humans and activity, that imbues the psyche with some feeling of meaning. The world of certainty is acrobatic and goes by feel and touch (articulate motion.)

For example, there are the layers of a rainforest canopy harbouring diverse beasts and flora. The articulate reality has dimensions (height, depth), while what one could call the purely technical reality doesn't. 

According to Bolsonaro (or 'Bolshie'), the canopy can be cut to enable agribusiness,  ie cattle grazing. This is technically true, but illiterate in terms of articulate motion (and meaning.)

The rainforest topsoil is very poor in nutrients and the texture of the crumbs is insufficient to retain nourishment. The reason a rainforest is so fertile is that there is constant growth and die-back or decay. There is a lot of heat that degrades matter swiftly and only the growth sustains it.

Once the canopy is gone, the topsoil is no longer a carbon store but a carbon emitter. Cow manure is insufficient to improve the situation and one is left with what is a fairly artificial system of intensive agriculture who's only justification is the numerical one (of technique or number, ie capital.)

In other words, the resource of technique or number (capital) is illusory in the articulate reality. That's an exttene example, but the point is however clever the capitalist is in terms of capitalist resource, the ultimate resource has to be articulate and not technical.

We live in a world where the real dimensions have gone out of fashion, where the ego looms large. Apart from that, an articulate reality is fertile and has a sexual etiquette that feeds the psyche. 

By 'articulate', I mean mainly something that exists hierarchically (in layers or levels) and not simply in parts or in technical information. So, theoretically villages or schools or Indian camps all have that as a holistic trait (or, say, a summer camp for scouts.)

People being what they are, there is always some sexual etiquette going on, even between young ones. To attempt to stamp that out is detrimental to the psyche (development, sequence) and I guess understanding. 

I happened to go to an Irish boarding school, (Quaker run Newtown, prev), and the current newslwtter contains this quote by a son of one of my teachers.

My parents married in 1966 and because they were both residential staff were assigned accommodation in a flat at the top of the main house. Then when 55, 56 and 57 Newtown Buildings were bought and converted into girls' dormitories, my parents moved into number 57. And that is the house that I was born into. Apparently, there was some excitement in the school when I came along because everyone got a half day to mark the occasion. At least, that is how it's been related to me and that half-day likely remains my greatest contribution to school life..

The hallway of the main house was always humming with activity as the office was on the ground floor. There was also a junior girls' common room. There were always pupils sitting on the big black leather settee and sliding down the banisters when no one was looking..

My earliest memories are extraordinarily happy ones, and while so many of the people who populate them are now gone, I remain grateful to them. (Christopher McKevitt)

The fact that people are being born on campus instils an articulate sexual tendencjy that is pretty obvious. The physical reality is articulate as opposed to being purely technical. 

This instils psyche, and the spiritual sensation of Newtown to Christopher is obvious from his quote. To think of schools as purely technical institutions is to miss the point that the reality we inhabit is one of dimensions (not mental information or numbers.)

Because numbers are so sophisticated and accurate and convincing, the fundamental reality is mislaid (pun intentional.)

This applies to DNA (prev.) The neutralising trend in modern material reality is the diminution of physical or articulate differences (men, women, age, race) in favour of the machine (of capital or number.)

This could be likened to the neutral zone in sex as in Godard's films such as Weekend or Goodbye to Language. 

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Mount Fuji

Jean-luc Godard in Notre Musique (2004) set in the post-war landscape of Sarajevo, develops a narrative of text versus image, where the written text is often the work of the 'winner', taking as an example Israel versus Palestine.

Going further back, Homer is the text of the Trojan war. However, he also has a story of Heisenberg (of the uncertainty principle) and Bohr walking in Denmark past an unprepossessing castle. Heisenberg says that's just a castle, but Bohr notes it's 'Hamlet's castle' 

Elsinore

This makes the point that text has to include image, but the image has a type of certainty that otherwise it would not. Godard himself adopted a documentary style of filmmaking that he would call 'Image' (as apposed to defunite narrative), but he psychically superimposed a narrative. Documentary and fantasy become intertwined. 

So, the idea of pure documentary is probably a non-sequitur as there is always an agenda. Taking it a bit further, if science is documentary (image) with no agenda then it could lead to a type of non-existence (zero or nothingness.)

This leads back to KT Tunstall's poster (P221) with the lyrics to 'Canyons', set in a physical reality of wide horizon and steep canyons. The 3 dimensions of space, plus the 1 of time or expression.

From this classic American landscape, Tunstall develops the lyrics relating to psyche (Nut). The psyche emanates from the physical in the sense of power. 

Tunstall is pretty insincere, if you listen to her spiel at performances; that is really to say she is not being that literal, she is being wry or deliberately offensive. She is not held by the material reality in front of her but by her peculiar interpretation of reality (psyche.)

The problem is that American material reality is very head-based (as I've been saying for awhile) and therefore not the true reality which is physical (the undulating lines of cattle trails, the range.)

The science-based material reality is uncertain, while the physical, undulating reality is certain. The American epic is a narrative about the image. In Godard-esque terms, this would mean American reality has now become text rather than image. The image is needed to form a psychic component,  and modern images have no psychic component. 

The exception would probably be comic book images, which are more fantastical. This trend is pushed even further in Japan, where various modes of Manga describe the etiquette of Japanese life assailed by various spiritual forces.

One story from Wings (devoted to women readers) is all to do with the humdrum activities of a dairy farm from Hokkaido, the prefecture which is likened to the frontier West of America. 

Creator Hiromu Arakawa is known for her Fullmetal Alchemist which gives an indication of the diversity.

(Neo #223)

This leads to the odd conclusion that, though the Japanese are homogeneous racially, they are heterogeneous in their psyche! Especially in the fertile area of sex and etiquette. Developing the psyche depends on physical awareness, and not on living inside the head. 

As previously noted, the physical, undulating reality contains 3 dimensions of space and 1 of time. All of this is tacitly ignored by a science of number and algorithm (and variable time or machine-time, calculation.)

In other words, the science of technique can be uncertain and unreal in terms of the expression of psyche in physical, undulating settings of work, acrobatics, livestock, the range. 

The physical reality is dirty while the technical reality is hygienic. But from dirt comes fertility and revival (see Buffy quote.) The Western obeyance to technique was clearly picked-up by Bruce Lee in Artist of Life (prev).

In the book he is discussing the demerits of traditional Chinese teachers of Gung Fu, but the same argument can be applied to the West.

The techniques, though they play an important role in the early stages, should not be too restrictive, complex or mechanical. Remember, you are expressing the technique and not 'doing' the technique. When someone attacks you it is not technique number one (or is it technique number two, stance two, section four?) that you are doing, but the moment you are 'aware' of his attack you simply move in like sound and echo without deliberation. It is as though when I call you, you answer me, or when I throw something to you, you catch it. That's all. (page 30)

In other words, technique takes one out of simple and effective action without need for thought. Note that Raducanu, for all her experiments with trainers, has not been able to match the fantastic free-hitting of her initial win at the US Open.

Techniques are only useful things; reality itself is the physical one of dimensions and the expression of time (music.)

The neutralising trend in modern material reality is the diminution of physical differences in favour of the machine. This could be likened to the neutral zone in sex (as in certain Godard films from Weekend to his last Goodbye to Language.)

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 There's a certain similarity between Royal Kill () and Marvel Studio's Black Widow in the openings featuring planted foreign emissaries on US soil. But, while RK follows the obsessive illusions of a role player battling 'evil' forces, Widow is all about the reality of good and evil.

This is where the heart-to-hearts work well, interspliced between typical action sequences. However, it's not so much the reality of good and evil as the dimensions of unreality on which the action transpires that leads to a flawed work.

The most fun scene is the improbable high speed chase through the canyons of Budapest, much of the rest being held in a neutral zone of indeterminate space (see the neutral zone of sex, SR3).

On the one hand the film is a dimensionless illusion taking place in a digital universe; on the other it is full of human desire and the appealingly red-headed Johansson as Natasha.

There are appealing scenes, such as the young Natasha (then black-haired) threatening to kill anyone who touches her kid sister, following the furtive family's escape to Cuba. The film is a creature of two elements, one of which is acrobatics and articulate litheness, the other of which is a machine-universe of animation.

One shouldn't necessarily care, except that the 3 dimensions of space are the fecund reality we inhabit on Earth. The Widow takes us out of that to the extent we are approaching the universe of the expressive algorithm and motion-capture (3D animation, see prev.)

The one thing that prevents this happening is the effectiveness of the actors. That makes actors pretty priceless, whereas in the old adventure serials it's the school of formulaic performances. 

But, in the old-school dramas, the fecund reality of the jungle depicted does exist (even if it's in the studio!), the bluffs, crags and vegetation, down to the undersea horses (in-joke.) In the Widow and other blockbusters, the fecund reality is reality only to the actors, not to the scenes staged.

So, there's a sort of contradiction there. A fecund reality is seen typically in role-playing lore in the type of old charts and maps, such as these of Hyboria. 

(P65)

Typically, palm trees or brush or mountain ranges or islands are delineated to suggest the undulations of landscape/seascape. This is the articulate world of rhythm. Geology is really the rhythms of rocks over time that Man has managed to categorize into sedimentary, igneous, the residues of past epochs.

Without the higher level rhythms, there can be no cycles of decay and revival that are basically a staple of the fecund universe (of opposing motions.)

The psyche reacts to the fecund reality, and there is a rapport with the articulate body. This is the fundamental, physical reality where rebellious people can fend for themselves, establishing free societies (homesteads, trees, livestock, fences.) 

In terms of comics book dimensions, Ditko's Dr Strange has this as he portrays organic, branching, tree-like vegetable masses. Roger Stern and others have written wonderful yarns on the rebellious natives of the Dark Dimension, Clea the pretender, daughter of Umar etc. (when dynastic rulers had power and not empty ritual.)

(Destruction 3)

By contrast the film version of Dr Strange tends to go for the indeterminate look. The idea of indeterminacy comes up in Gilbert Hernandez' BEM (from L&R book 1, 1985), where Castle Radium is battling an endlessly mutating foe (prev.)

The films tend to take this to the extreme so that the background against which heroes fight villains is dimensionless and decidedly not organic or fecund.

That neutralising trend could be said to represent the neutral zone in sex, the compulsive and hygienic (number, algorithm - see Grace Slick quote HB62/1). This sort of mirrors a future where sex and race are neutralised by omnivorous news of the digital/electrical universe of machines.

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 As a half-breed, Tunstall  may feel some affinity with the Red Indians of yore, and this poster came my way via Nut, signed and for a fee, natch. It seems to have three dimensions in the deep canyons and the wide horizon (shades of 80s Celt-rockers Big Country.) This is Indian territory, hence American territory,  which Tunstall's keen, birdlike mind has deciphered from the landscape.

Landscape is built for the body, in that hips rotate to pelvically articulate the walker or runner along the buffs, bow in hand. The human is the only animal that walks nomadically for days on end. At the end of the day joints stretch and crack.

The physical situation is the fundamental reality that imbues psychic well-being. The physical situation is composes of 4 dimensions and, see P220, none of those dimensions - including invariable time - are part of our illusory system of numbers and 'facts' (so favored by the head.)

We live in our heads in the phenomenological jar supplied by 'them'. They don't know their ass from their elbow (but know a lot of other things.) This is where it might pay to discuss just what is meant to by hierarchy in a society, in that any traditional society - like the body - has a hierarchy of organization. 

I think there can be some confusion here. For example, I was watching the Republic serial from 1945, Jungle Queen. The story is set in the lead-up to the war when Nazi agents are attempting to install a puppet in the jungle judge presiding over a powerful confederation in North Africa, and hence control Africa on the southern front.

This revolves round the secret of the sacred sword, and set against the Nazis is the mystical Lothel, the white Jungle Queen, who advises the British and US and tribesmen. As a review said, Lothel's powers are so formidable that the story lacks suspense. One could say it's pretty condescending, but makes thecpoint that tribal hierarchy is belief-based.

On the contrary, the Nazi high-command is organisation based. Or you could say the Germans believed in organisation. So, tribes are quite hierarchical institutions, as was medieval Euripe, but that doesn't mean to say that both can't also be anarchic (with no central control.)

The body is very anarchic in that there is no central control. The CNS does certain things it is capable of doing, while the majority of functions are autonomic (breathing, heartbeat, sight, movement.)

If you take the act of speed-walking, the arm goes down as the leg goes up, there is an antagonistic rhythm that is automatic. No thought is involved, the body is acting on instinct. 

An antagonistic system can never be centrally controlled. The German war-machine worked on the opposite principle that the high-command would have all the facts at their fingertips and be able to direct action. This seems pretty much a German failing. 

The British and Americans may have hierarchical organisation, but it is a flexible hierarchy relying on initiative. Not only that, but the banter between the two Americans keeps a light tone and the spirits up (psyche.)

The German tendency is to suppress the psyche for the sake of organisation (I mean, in war.) But the psyche is simply the expression of a physical situation where hierarchy exists - a flexible hierarchy  - and is needed for calmness, judgement.

Thr German failing is to not really exist in the physical moment, at least in war. The physical situation is a flexible hierarchy, since everything physical has to be flexible (Bruce Lee.) The throat could choke and needs to be able to flex snake-like to recoil and fix the problem (or you're dead.)

Sexual attraction is also highly antagonistic; breeding means survival. Life in the raw needs must be anarchic; governments may impose laws, but organisation itself can't run things. It has to be by a hierarchy that is innately flexible. 

By surveying her surroundings, birdlike, Tunstall is seeing thr physical situation that eludes the Washington heads in their phenomenological jar (imported from Mars.) Tunstall's America is the real America because it is physical to the touch, the same as Buffy's. From this, the psyche is imbued, songs develop, societies flourish  

So I think Americans have to realise hierarchy is not just British royals. It is a flexible physical situation of instinctive living of the body that acts on initiative inside the commune (the higher level development.)

There is a degree of anarchy involved, and this frees the psyche (from central control, propaganda.) The brain is a psyche and not simply CNS. Listen to KT and learn, friends. 

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Nut is better than the web-crits would have you believe, seemingly lightweight with bright beats a zillions miles from Adele, and sardonically ditto (not the band.)

Drums and rhythms permeate the precipices of Tunstall's inner thoughts, articulating what several philosophy textbooks would not even perceive. Perception in modern philosophy is represented by phenomenology - as seen in Dark Star, P215 - but the intent is without the lightness of the Charleston (see Josephine Baker, prev), limbs weaving round the underbrush of the mind.

The hidden track points to the modern data-trap that may end with the expressive algorithm.

BRAIN IN A JAR

As one can see from the illo, 'the lady is a fruit'. In other words, there is a vegetable/animal symbiosis though, in this case, without the fierce feeding frenzy of Noto's 'Red Lace' (P218 The Citadel of Fear).

Flowers here are not brutal, though they are insidious and so probably equally life-destroying. That may seem an odd comment, but graveyards tend to blossom. Here, the insidiousness is more to do with the modern metamorphosis into an illusory Narcissus perpetually gazing at one's reflection.

PRIVATE EYES

The idea that vegetables are just for show is for the birds. For a start, Nut could also refer to the testicle, and the convolutions of both brain and testicles are not a million miles apart.

In other words, a seemingly inoffensive vegetable has hidden powers. These articulating elements of the body tend to not be perceived by the rational philosophers.

The notion of bloodthirsty plants is not a million miles from Mel Brook's 'Springtime for Hitler', the musical in The Producers set in the mountain retreat of Berchtesgaden.

Basically, things which seem inoffensive in nature are just the camouflage for the feeding of fertility. Good and bad are always going to be present, and the moral order is the gamekeeper's order that establishes a balance to stabilise a system (see Botham, prev.)

I was walking up the old High Street here and witnessed a twirling stream erupt from a side-pipe, to wind down the stones of the old street. Kids were delighted, and one was immediately put in mind of the dull green of shaded woods, the tinkle of stones (red Indians on the prowl.)

In short, the psychic calmness of such vistas cannot be overestimated. The body articulates in psychic vistas, or the higher-level developments of nature that just happen. 

BWS pencil art for Cimmeria 

Happenings, if one believes (with Byron) in Fortune, are psychic as well as physical. The illusory, phenomenological future is clearly devoid of all of that. Without psychic strength (stability, insoucience), weakness and confusion are the inevitable results of an illusory material advance. 

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What I've been leading up to is that basically the modern head ('white man's head') for all its cleverness is essentially wrong or exists in a parallel dimension of logic as opposed to the real dimensions of up/down, left/right, back/front, inside/outside, all of which are of course rhythmically based.

The fundamental essence of symmetrical, spiralling reality is lost to modernity, and hence the actions of the articulate body that establishes hierarchical order in the universe. 

Our Queen has gone, but the hierarchy that establishes roots in the very soil of the Earth has been gone for centuries. Charles will be imposing his 'power over flowers' as that's all that it's possible to do!

There's a basic mismatch between the 'Land of Hope and Glory' pomp that speaks of power, and the abysmal lack of hierarchy that speaks of powerlessness. The empty rituals were at the root of Lindsay Anderson's rebellious films of the late 70s (see If A6 etc.) starring Malcolm McDowell. 

The Arcadian age of Gainsborough speaks of an aristocracy at ease with the roots of the earth, and their imperial spendor on country estates that traversed the Earth. Those days are long gone in the complete lack of hierarchy that is synonymous with Fleet Street propaganda for the corrupt political/economic system of basic sameness (individualism.)

We live in a resolved space (of parallel logic, electromagnetism, algorithms) that has none of the Arcadian symbols of yore because it has neither dimensions nor even the invariable time (of rhythm or spin.) This is another way of saying any hierarchical action (of the body) is impossible as a notable act in society. The Queen has her horses but there is no higher symbolic meaning in terms of the rhythms that inform music (pomp.)

Truss is the new woman in charge - in the Commons aka Martian colonialists - and the distinction between her and a robot is minimal. Where the head is in charge, the ineffable rhythms of reality are not. Distortion rules, instead of the fierce hunger that places corruption and evil in a hierarchical framework.

Part of the appeal of modernity is its strict regimes of hygiene (GM monoculture) but this is simply an illusion that disempowers the fertile soil, and hence the 4 elements of earth, air, water and fire (sun/photosynthesis.)

Without the 4 elements, the 5th element - as in Luc Besson's film - of psyche is gone too. Psyche is imbued by a state of reality (body) and cannot be invented by a head of state.

The pomp of the head of state is a figment with no primal reality. The dirt of the soil is where the fertility and regeneration of humus and clods of earth take place when allowed to just happen (P218).

WHEN THE EARTH MOVES AGAIN

Societies just happen when the fertile state allows them. This is where the psyche thrived, be it ancient Egypt ('They left the deserts golden') or Chick Chalmers' photos from the 70s of Orkney and Anerican cowboys. The psyche of a commune - or higher level than individual - that needs must cause a state of reflection on a higher plane (belief, tribe.) From that can come creativity and rebellion from a nefarious order of the illusory convictions of the head.

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 Ever since the publication of Freud's Three Essays on a Theory of Sexuality, we have become accustomed to thinking of affective relations in the language of capital: we invest libido in objects, thereby increasing their value but reducing our own psychic reserves.. However, whereas teems like 'investment', 'value', and 'bankruptcy' are for Freud only metaphors for the erotic, (Godard) refuses to subordinate one term to another. The economic is not merely metaphoric, but literal as well, and it not only signifies, but is signified by, the erotic. (Speaking About Godard, Silverman/Farocki, page 203,204)

This equates roughly to the feminine dimension of sensual mystique (P217). The Taj Mahal, built in memory of Mumtaz Mahal (who died in childbirth) is a monument to erotic value that signifies wealth by its sensual splendour. The sensual is an ancient attribution of wealth in the attainment of power - castles and country estates - whereas to Freud the opposite is true, and money simply signifies erotic power (usually of men.)

However, the idea that money per se signifies wealth does without the erotic as a source of primal power and wealth in itself (as in Greek gods and goddesses, natch.) This is one of the contradictions at the heart of modern capital. We seem to live on a world of distorted rhythms that have a scent of perverse sex. Jean-luc Godard in Weekend and Goodbye to Language (prev) and other films takes aim at these distortions of modernity (of head as opposed to body.)

The sensual or the fertile is something that happens naturally, and this gives it primordial power. The rhythmic writhings of the serpent. Where there is fertility, there is degradation and the fallen branches that decay are are home to myriads of bugs. From degradation springs revival, and the soil is an anchor for the fertility of the lifecycles of bird and insect. 

As has already been noted, good and bad coexist, and the job of the gamekeeper is to strike the right balance between bloodshed and stability. The modern 'type' who thinks in terms of a perfect solution to natural problems is living an illusion. 

The role of evil in the days of ancient civilizations is fairly common to pulp fantasy, one of the first being Francis Stephens' The Citadel of Fear.

In the story, the subversive subterranean scene of marshy rushes and prowling white wolves has a demonic fascination. It's somewhat reminiscent of Clair Noto's temple of wood and stone from Red Sonja ('Red Lace' prev.) The vegetable and the animal are crosscut and act almost symbiotically.

The evil of the blood-swollen plants in Noto, and the evil in The Citadel of Fear are somewhat akin. The fierce feasting of fertility harbours the demonic desires of a maggot inside an apple. To seek to rid the world of such happenings is simply illusory, and a denial of the body that decays. From 'happenings' comes revival, and from revival the rebellious spirit of youthful zest.

While modern science seems to specialise in gene-editing and GM crops, these are independent of the soil which is the source of all fertility in its gradually decaying humus content, water, airholes (drainage). The state of the soil can be dire, in other words. Modern gardeners are often specialists who reel-off Latin names and tidy tidbits (no offence.)

The soil is easily what could be called an articulate substance that contains the structures that enable things to become joined together; the earthworm castings (so unsightly in suburban pastures.) 

That structure could be said to be symmetrical between water, air, earth and the fire (sun) needed for leaves to transpire (produce O2 in the presence of water). It's just another way of looking at it and a simpler one 

It's fairly straightforward, if one just let's things happen, as Buffy Sainte-marie says of dried buffalo manure (HB70.) By leaving things be, the primordial forces of fertility and growth generally tend to produce useful products. The wild woodsman instincts revive spirit.