The humble sofa is one of the best examples of the corruption of natural rhythms by the profane serpent, for the reason it looks fairly inoccuous.
In a certain sense, the modern sofa is the descendent of Blake's print of Newton, whereby the ego seems unaware of its surroundings of lichen-encrusted rock-formations.
The parallel reality that Newton's induction (of light) represents amplifies the head to colossal dimensions, while doing without the self-supporting body.
From the vantage-point of a sofa, it could appear that the body has itself been amplified with the perennial and habitual dance shows that seem to attract views!
Like Anita Roddick's quote on body-beauty products, though (), the focus on the body is just an illusion. The body is not intrinsically active in the natural world, but is merely a fashion commodity.
Via the sofa, anything can be sold as healthier fashion, while the body is itself non self-supporting. Amazon, for example, could use drones delivering organic farm food. From the vantage-point of a sofa it appears to be a fairly good deal, not from the vantage-point of the body.
People tend to somehow be seduced through the head via the sofa on the merits of products for the body. Why should that be so dire?
Well, the body that is not self-supporting is weak for the reason that the body depends on strength-in-nature. The body is left defenceless while sold products that keep it in a defenceless position.
But, what is wrong with buying organic products via Amazon (or Lidl supermarket?) What appears seductive to the body via the sofa is simply the opening to a vast infrastructure-machine of sterile efficiency.
Whatever is sold amplifies the sterility and makes the body increasingly defenceless. The reason is that on the first hand germs provided in soil and dirty environments strengthen the immune system by prompting its antibody responses.
Why are we currently in a neverending plague-situation dominated by experts? Because the ego relies wholely on measurement-techniques. It cannot go beyond this state of weakness to natural order of disordered strength and germs. Of course, measurements impress the ego of acolytes. Viruses prosper in weak environments of a sterile order.
On the second hand, there is a purely physical reason: the body needs to be physically self-supporting. Sitting on the floor, the limbs bend and physically support the body. The act of rising entails effort. Traditional Japanese furniture and postures are healthy from this standpoint.
Medieval furniture consisting of the odd wooden chair and with rushes spread on bare earthfloor is fairly similar. The Tudors sat on cushions on the floor rather that chairs
It's not so much sofas are nefarious as that they are attached to a world-devouring system of sterile logic attached to the head that is seducing (for the body.) These are the disrupted rhythms of the profane serpent.
Rhythms that we see in nature are simply the visual surface of the subworld of revival within the soil; of water and decaying humus (organic matter); of the great peat moors; of trunks and insect lifecycles.
Unless the body works among these great cycles of nature and subnature, we are subject to an illusion via the sofa from the vast and sterile infrastructure-machine (that runs the so-called organic sofa-life.)
Fertility is a dirty area, and that is strength. It is a type of antagonism of predator-prey. If living is a conflict, that is the price for strength - physical and also the psychic calm of nature. I was surprised to hear Kantner and Slick - of Jefferson Airplane fame - arguing for war and peace as inevitable staples of an artistic credo.
Kantner is a warrior, for all his Communist leanings, and would look cool riding a horse. It's probable that he saw the Communists as heroic strugglers against capital; the struggle itself was his Pride (of Man.)
This Teutonic strength is somewhat anti the Anglo capital-world of ever-more retail-outlets. The idea of conflict is not necessarily to be pro modern war; it's more the notion of medieval-style heroic conflict between states that is never resolved.
Howard himself was against 'Roman' war which he considered civilized, as opposed to barbaric brawls. To some extent, medieval conflicts had a heavy dose of ritual too (see Siena.)
Conflict of that type seems to be a supporting factor in societies, and the nemesis of the Western ego - represented by the sofa - is the weakness of the body that is supported on all fronts - save its own. The body that is cutoff from the cosmos.
In a universe of 'fact', myth is still running the wheels of fate and fortune, unobserved by scientific method. The unavoidable truth is seen in the cosmic vista of the night sky, the undeniable fertility of swirling celestial bodies in astrological time. Astrological time is far from a precise measurement but has epistemology (meaning). The psyche gets a fix from significant events, while modernity sows profitable confusion
Confusion between body and mind. Between the body as an active force in nature, or the body as a mere fashion commodity.
Last Edit: Dec 15, 2021 at 3:02pm by neilnv2 |
