Carrying-on from
The God Delusion, these fertile symmetries of the rustic culture were
discussed awhile back starting with HB108
(and through to HB111). The worship of the field goddesses was a
strong feature of Hyborian societies.
The point was
made then that, in a primitive situation, an ecosystem follows Man on his
trade-routes in the form of the pack-animals which transport goods. The dirt
and ticks and flees are part of an active system that lives and feeds.
Cleanliness is really a case of balance.
In the sterile
modern system (of manufacture and trade), that sense of balance is lost, and
there is the domination of economy over ecology. If you go back to HB108,
the primitive religions celebrate the feminine harmonic of fertility in the
field (Ishtar). These are somewhat like the Dionysian frolics which sanctify
the donkey.
Fertility – or the
dirt of the fields – sanctifies health and cleanliness through this need for
balance (in the living and feeding cycle).
If you call this
part of The God Delusion, then it’s to do with dirt and cleanliness, and
the ritual practices since the dawn of time (such as Mosaic Law, prev.)
A sterile system
– of the head or mirror, illusion – is outside this, but has its own problems
associated with number. Numbers attract the ego of acolytes, as in the case of “clean
meat” P130,
where cells multiply but the rhythms and symmetries of nature are
corrupted. Meat that is grown without the fertile symmetries of nature then
allows in the profane serpent.
The odd thing is
that “clean meat” is a pornographic illusion, since a sterile system continually
removes rubbish – or the cyclical component of matter. Since living things are
cyclical, they are removed from the system, along with their sounds, smells,
gayness of manner, playful frolics.
A sterile system
may be immaterial (head, number, algorithm), but it cannot deny the physique
(body) and so is always attracted to the Black Sun of calculation.
Sterilization of culture is always going to have a physical aspect of the body
(see Grace Slick quote HB62/1).
The entire region
of fertility in the fields is a feminine harmonic that has grace and charm
(Biblical Ruth, prev.) As was noted in HB108, “information gathering” is
also a product of the strength of fertility. In other words, primitive
rusticity is much more feminine and earthbound.
In Hyborian
lore, Ishtar comes-up against nomadic warrior gods which she tended to outlast.
Primitive tribes will gather information that accords with their beliefs in the
health-giving properties of fertile cycles (see Adastra in Africa).
What you could
also say is that cultures that are fertile tend to leave things to decline is a
picturesque fashion. It’s the tumble-down mill, airy barn and rustic farmhouse
syndrome as opposed to the build-over and pave-over and insulate-over syndrome.
From these signs
of decadence spring the gayness of grace in the field, honking donkeys and
general disorder. From decadence comes revival because it is a sign of strength
in the field.
None of this can
figure atall in a sterile order that attracts the ego with number and
algorithm, but has no time for the symmetries of fertility that are products of
primitive, cyclical rhythms.
The male ego is
attracted to a completely different area, but since the physique can’t be
denied, always ends up in the Black Sun of calculation, that shines where it
don’t ought.
This is the
future of numerical sex and the expressive algorithm that the likes of Dawkins
are unwittingly promoting with an ego-illusion that has no basis in the
symmetries of fertility.