1/2 Essay (2)

(JA - what's wrong with you, girl?)

 

Spot the difference. A manual-drive car always has mirrors for the reason that a mirror supplies accurate navigation for the driver down a highway, weaving into the fast lane.

Roman roads are famously straight, and the invention of the wheel ought really to be that of a wheel-plus-axle, which converts rotation into straight-line movement. 

Straight-line movement seems difficult for animals to compute - see P200, speed = distance/time. 

Animals are able to compute rhythmic travel, such as the canter of a horse. The rhythm is the physical capability of the body-in-action. 

A neat example is Jack Palance throwing a discus in 

LE MEPRIS (about 15 min in)

(What the F***?5). He is basically being an animal in his act, and gets good leverage by rising off the ground without the need for Olympian spinning. It's a simple mechanism of action/reaction with the inertia given to the disc.

This is a good indicator that there are two different worlds - or directions. One is straight-line movement, grounded and efficient. The other is antagonist muscles that operate in rhythmic opposition.

In Roman times both these existed together (chariot races, natch.) Nowadays, the direction is moving into the electronic area. A mirror is an indicator of the electronic reality (that the head perceives.)

Self-drive cars don't need mirrors precisely because they are already INSIDE the mirror (of illusions) or electromagnetism. Cameras are identical to mirrors (looking in all directions.)

A mirror is an indicator of electronics, while digital cameras are the reality. If a mirror is an illusion (that can be 'Breaking Glass') so is the digital reality. Google Maps are accurate illusions that supply modernity with information. 

If it's accurate, why should that matter? Again, because it has no physical capability. The direction of modernity is into a future that attaches to the head (ego, number.) As I've been saying for a while, physical leverage and the easy stress of thoughtless reaction (a la Raducanu) are a type of dance of life that imbues the psyche with calm (Raducanu for one is the most blasé person.)

Modernity is not easy but mysterious and sinister (listen to 'White Boy'). Without the calm, without the natural rhythm, there is a psychic distortion. Often this takes the form of numerical compulsion,  a compulsion of the ego that is outside the physical reality of leverage and reaction.

There is compulsive hygiene (clean machines) outside of the cyclical areas where germs proliferate (in the fields.) Prophylactic are basically contained in cyclical areas (of growth), often in the shape of astringent spices.

The pungency of products (Indian curries) is often a good indicator. Apart from prophylactics, common germs strengthen immune-responses and together the body is prepared, guarded against disorders.

Google Maps, like the Amazon House (see TofF2), has a straight-line direction that is inside the mirror of illusions. The fact it's accurate shouldn't be surprising since "It's supposed to be" (see CC Beck, prev.)