Bringing together some of the previous stuff on the monetary universe of "facts" - or logical differences - versus the oneness of cosmos, might be a way of approaching Hyborian pragmatism.
If we live in a type of linguistic trap of information, this applies equally to DNA or AI. Both are a type of tidiness for tidy minds; pure ego as opposed to the robust strength of the active body (in-the-field.)
A body that is active in-the-field is by definition in contact with germs and a disordered environment, which strengthens the immune-system. In our present condition, human immune-systems are not only weak, they are being given gene-based treatments such as the covid vaccines, which are subject to random mutations (variant strains.)
The reason is probably that information-based systems are easier to run logically (by AI) and so attract the ego of acolytes. These guys are true believers, not nefarious per se.
However, the universal tidiness has an anal quality that was earlier personified in Blake's print of Newton (P83). Nature is not that tidy, and can be squalid and disordered as a sign of physical strength and renewal.
Filth is associated with health, as the physical universe is associated with the psyche. In medieval as in Hyboria the emphasis is on balance. A medieval or Hyborian trade-route carries with it an ecosystem in the pack-animals, their pests and germs (see HB108).
In a way, information-based systems are the opposite of germs because one is hygienic and the other is not! All information-systems are hygienic, whether it's CERN or a hospital ward. On the other hand, germs strengthen us so that we don't require information-based treatments in the first case.
The old order up to what is called the monetary order of Western expansion was always somewhat squalid (see eg Monty Python and the Holy Grail). The monetary order gradually developed a stranglehold through methods such as levies on imports by the maritime powers.
Adam.Smith called this "Mercantilism"; the profiteering merchants of previous eras such as Venetian were therefore not by his definition Mercantilist.
What I mean is that a monetary system takes no account of the ecology of any system. Before there was a monetary order, ecology and economy were together in the trade-routes consisting of pack-animals, or of ships at sea with rodents and unsanitary conditions (HB108).
A monetary system replaces any type of natural disorder - pests, germs or squalor - with money.
A monetary system is pure order, meaning that the logic of economy replaces the illogic of ecology. This is very attractive to the ego of acolytes. As previously noted, the end-product is the vanishing point of technique (or AI, ones and zeros.)
Basically, oneness or harmony of the cosmos is not a numerical subject, it's a case of balance between order and disorder. Squalor or pests or germs are good if they are balanced with cleanliness and robust rituals of good living (see prev on Monty Don).
The universe is clearly ecological as opposed to economic; that's not to say money had no pragmatic use for the exchange of goods. Pragmatic trade cannot become a religion! (money has no intrinsic value beyond the symbol of exchange.)
This point was made of Hyborian trade, where Stygian beliefs underlaid their purely pragmatic ventures in profitable exchange. The two shouldn't be confused; Stygian beliefs may be repellent to most Hyborian kingdoms, but that doesn't prevent the exchange of valuable goods.
The modern scene is confused in that true believers are monetary theorists! Belief has to be a matter of fertility and the rustic dance of life and death. Anything else is an illusion of the ego (within the mirror of illusions.)
"Midnight winds are landing
at the end of time
a true story wants to be mine"
The Germanic Nico's funereal ditties from 1969's The Marble Index (with the Velvet Underground) seem to reek of primal slaughter. Not necessarily Vikings and Visigoths. I'm thinking more of the slaughtered boar and deer from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (prev.)
Women as the harbingers of fate and a warrior's destiny are archetypal symbols. There is Valeria's phrase, "Do you want to live forever?" and resurrection in Milius's Conan (1982).
Howard brought aboard a Nordic choosers of the slain to the Celtic god Bori in The Grey God Passes (Conan #3). Whether the slain or carriers of the slain, the theme is blood and the growth and fertility that results. Beauty and death in Maeterlinck's sense (Pelleas and Melisande).
The Irish myth of Deirdre of the sorrows carries a like resonance. Prophesied from birth to be s beauty allied to bloodshed, Deirdre grows-up in with Naoise, a handsome hunter, but king Conchobar hears of her. He forces marriage upon her, then spurns her and she dashes her head our on rocks.
There is a boisterous physicality that one could align with tribal lore. With slaughter and fertility, revival is never far away. Blood and revival are the physical attributes represented by the Hindu Kali that a logical monetary order can never attain to since it involves disorder, and from the disorder renewal, a cosmic balance of archetypes.
With the physical revival is associated a boisterousness of psyche. The Dionysian gaiety of agricultural deities; the resurrection of Osiris, the hero Horus (see Bilal's The Nikopol Trilogy, prev.)
As in Hyborian lore, such physical revival inspires the psyche with belief in Ishtar, the mother goddess of revival (see Yaple, prev.) As was stated in HB140, tribes credit information that accords with their beliefs.
The empirical tradition (of the shaman as well as the farmer/herbalist), reflects an unthinking cosmos of poetic vistas that inspires Man in active pursuits in nature.
With empiricism comes bodily rituals; anointing with oils, athletic games, bathing and mineral springs (HB2).
As with Liza Minnelli's shapeshifting dance of the mirrors in HB175, rude, lusty animal movements convince by their exuberance of rhythm and grace (irresolvable space of balance and proportion that is captured by reptilian mirrors - the cold-light of logic).
The psychic luster of Dionysian pleasure-pursuits rides over the physical strength of a Noto-esque underworld that supports floral growth ("Red Lace" prev, with carnivorous bloodsucking plants.)
The two are inseparable, as was the case in the Grecian rise of Persephone every spring (the Eleusian mysteries, prev.)
The old world of empirical tradition (prev Mosaic Law) is the fertile one of dirt and cleanliness. By contnrast, the world of empirical reason we currently inhabit is a hygienic one of monetary illusions that the ego of acolytes views through the mirror of illusions (electromagnetism, straight lines, ones and zeros.)
The ultimate destination is the sterility of irradiated space navigated by the AI beloved of billionaires (resolved space, natch.)
This hermetic pseudo-space of electromagnetic order (light) invites schizophrenic delusions of grandeur, which a false psyche is prone to. A weak continuum produces the need for bestial strength, possibly a reason for the current superheroic explosion (see P180, next.)
