Pictorial 100

If we live in the era of appearance (Apollo) then it’s not also green, since the two are different. While electricity is expressionless light (P97 Edison) representing capital-economics, woodsmoke or candle-light are a hazy combination of shadow and light that impinges on the psyche (P96 The Norse Shaman).

The point is that nature isn’t just appearance; it’s transformation from one thing to another. From wood to charcoal (woodsmoke). Diana runs through the woods with her bow firing at stray deer. The hunt; life becomes death; there is carrion and carrion-feeders.

The life of the hunt is quintessentially green because it involves cyclical processes of lifedeath. A hunter is liable to start a campfire since they live an active life in the woods. The carbon emitted goes into the carbon-cycle, which is an active process of renewal between plants and animals.

 (Pocket Chemistry)

This is the physical world that affects or impinges on the psyche of Man, the active hunter and gatherer of yore. The problem with electricity is it’s immaterial and so has no expression. It’s the predecessor to a robot future whereby facts (numbers) are given expression via algorithms – see the Japanese animated face (P96 made in Japan)

The expression is a good copy but has no psychic content (soul). Someone can write a story for it, so the problem is how to say if the story is true or false?
The only real way to do that is physically via the predator-prey cycle of lifedeath.

 

Anything that is physically active in nature has a lifecycle that decays and renews. That is not appearance, but it is green. But that is not what “they” are telling us, which is that everything electrical is green and we should not make woodfires.

Electricity is immaterial and doesn’t relate physically to the human psyche as woodsmoke does. What you could say is an electrical future is very difficult to tell fact from fiction because of this lack of physicality.

Yet this is the future they are selling as green, particularly through mouthpieces such as Greta, the Swedish climate activist. They are really selling a cyber-future – one that is null and void – masquerading as green. Greta is really spearheading a movement whereby humans and algorithms become more and more indistinguishable, owing to the lack of physical reality, our lack of contact with predator-prey relationships and other psychically influential realities such as woodsmoke.

 

 

The problem is that the carbon-cycle is a branch of familiar scientific information founded on fact. A fact is nor expressive, so it doesn’t tell you that woodsmoke or a diving falcon have an influence on the psyche.

It’s something you could guess, but it doesn’t amount to scientifically accurate information. The carbon-cycle is usually used as something abstract that happens to be out there and that numbers are attached to.

The expressive factor consists of line and movement: the world that Doug Wildey cartoons in Rio. The world of expression is different to the world of information in that it has a roughness, a toughness, a sense of abandonment, of things that are just left to be under the stars above.

 

That world is not straight lines – which is represented by electricity. It is not appearance (Apollo); it is transformation from decay to growth and back again.

Within this world one can build straight lines, have industries and combustion (see chart); but they are still two different worlds. The wild roughness where rebirth springs is the realm of lusty Dionysus.

 

The problem with information theory and flow-charts like this is it doesn’t tells us that not everything is order and information. There is disorder and expression – line and movement.

Rather than the carbon-cycle being an abstract phenomenon of numbers, it is a product of line and movement in a process of decay and rebirth. We as humans are products of line and movement and not of number.

It is the strength of roughness in nature and the abandonment that leads to regrowth. This land is the land of Dionysus and his donkey, of rebel-rousing ranch-hands. People who build campfirtes on the prairie.

The rough strength of nature that influences the psyche isn’t necessarily apparent in a flow-chart where it may seem to be the case that electricity can reduce the carbon-output of combustion (fossil fuels).

Yes, it can, but that’s just numbers. It doesn’t include the psychological human component of rough influence in nature.

There’s also the question of light; a starless sky is psychologically different to a star-filled one (Grace Slick, prev.) The reason has to be that electricity is an immaterial order, outside of the physical influence on human psyche.

I don’t want to cast aspersions on Greta, but it could be she is used by “them” as justification for a cyber-future that is essentially null and void, whereby numbers become expressive, or the numerical and sexual become one (though physical boredom).

Is the future they dance eagerly towards.. The Pied Piper of Hamelin..

.. in the shape of the human algorithm? It’s not enough for people to have expression. They also have to have a physical reality that is rough and tough, where there is a sense of abandon that leads to regrowth. The land of Dionysus and his donkey and not of Apollo and image.