Creating a society is a rough and ready exercise born of human labour; not of the head but of the body. The active body in motion; naked Greek youths oiled their limbs for balanced and graceful muscular effort. Sexual and athletic male or female labour in the fields, thighs and hind-muscles, corded neck.
Decline is an opportunity for growth that empowers the human spirit. Troy was built five times on the ruins of its past. The rough bones and sinews and blood of nature are the foundations of cities (Ymir). Why else was Venice built on a lagoon? (see Portmeririon) Artists then chronicle the exploits (Egyptian glyphs, Roman columns, Simon & Kirby). Societies that have a signal failure of decline are doomed to forever repeat themselves, signifying nothing.
Roman engineering worked the rough ground and grew powerful (HB2) The primitive physical and the psyche are strongly connected. Man honors the spirits of earth and water (see Sulis-Minerva).
Roughness and dirt, the presence of germs in natural surroundings impart health (immune-system response); the physical roughness where the body is free to roam in field and forest renders the psyche immune to meaningless lust (see Cider with Rosie prev.)
Our technologies are disconnected from Mother Earth, whereas Romans worshipped the ground and springs. The balance between so-called advance of a numerical reality and the reality of primitive rhythms has been lost in the mainstream. Lost to the convisctions of countless egos.
Technology can be used in a rough and “au naturel” manner that speaks to a wilder spirit. Dub, for example, roots reggae with the earthy offbeats, dreamlike vistas and rustic dreads is a force of nature that the likes of Lee “scratch” Perry and Ari Up personify. They are society’s foundations in the same sense as Fairport Convention.
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Roughness connects to the free spirit that is not bound to the smooth virtues of a high-tech dragon that corrupts natural rhythms with profane lusts whereby the numerical becomes the sexual, the expressive algorithm that tells stories to take away the stories of children’s fairy tales.
Without the childish imagination, impure lusts take over from the pure. Imaginations are forged by the immortal physique in much the way of Kirby’s purely moral tales of the 60s and early 70s.
A society is physical first; the primitive and the rhythmic, followed by the spiritual. Without the primal foundations all that is left are illusions supplied by countless words. Rather than historically being the “norm” where obvious statements are recited ad nauseam, they are more like Hyborian kingdoms where often obscene and arcane deities hold sway in rural areas (see Yaple
Modern societies are based on the order of a city. Not the strength and growth of nature; the blood and the hunt and feminine settings of roughness. Erotic entities stalk the labyrinth of forest and vale where the strong growth supplies Man’s foundations. The rustic order is disorder.
Strong societies are built on goddesses of fertility. Ari Up is one of the strong personalities who appear in a physical guise (as a former member of The Slits) while having a spiritual foundation which revels in the independence of wild places. Much as the ancient Greek Oracles danced in flimsy raiments and gave utterance to prophecies of spiritual voices. The two are difficult to disentangle.
Whithin the cycles of nature exist the Noto-esque underworld of roots and fallen-n roofs and the sprays of blood as a pure fertilizer HB67
The strong and physical scenes are the basis for trade and of the cities that breed growth Yoemen and warriors honour women in the chivalrous order for their pure fertility. The primitivism of past ages is mainly represented in children’s fairy tales and – see prev – in the heroic figures of Kirby.
Trading and social needs are never products of numbers and money alone (HB6) They spring from roots of the Earth, the sea and maritime channels (the glories of the Venetian Empire, of Byzantium).