sanity, so called, is what got us here, in this surreal
cordon sanitaire of sane worry about the stock market or social media or political correctness or whatever else; we retreat from madness, collective, societal madness, only by a measure of control that dehumanizes us for in some sense there is that spark of madness, or original sin, in all of us. whenever I've come back to sane sterility after visiting a third world country or a festival or doing a drug deal or whatever else that takes us outside the
cordon, I feel the falsehoods and illusions all around me and their fragility. as Yeats had it, after a truly apocalyptic world War,
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
what rough beast indeed. do we chose sterility, emptiness, castration, and submission to the status quo, or madness? I'll pick madness. I've been in war torn countries with bombs going off. I've had shots fired at me in anger, I've been pistol whipped, zip tied to a chair, hooded with a black pillowcase, and given a mock execution during a home invasion. I've slept on the streets not knowing where I'm going next. I've held felony weight with the red and blue behind me. madness all. but I was a human being. no automaton.
the New World Order is exactly this; sterility, castration, submission, thought reform, trading our humanity for a safe space and our birthright for a bourgeois lifestyle. that's what Hilary and her ilk are about. it's Satanic, it's wickedness beyond any scope of imagination. these are unbelievably wicked people who want to redefine the entire world, to lull us into a false ontology that's really ideology; we do so already when we call men women and women men and when we make thoughts and opinions crimes and equate them with hate and when we radically change the very definition of a social universal such as marriage; when we'll jump through any possible hoop and discard Ockham's razor wholly when we're presented with any evidence that goes against the prevailing dogma (different predispositions of various types in various groups varying with reliable statistical significance rather than the outmoded but politically correct idea of the
tabula rasa, or that every child should expect college, or whatever.)
all of these are cold hard counterfactual beliefs. but they're presented in a slick and sane manner that makes it seem the only way, the only right way, the only safe way. it's Brave New World; read your Huxley, it's happening, and Hilary is its public face. The shocking thing is that educated intelligent people buy into this but then again this is not so shocking as the very wicked ideologies that created this whole mess permeated our educational system generations ago.
We as a society are at a turning point. arguably were already totalitarian. it can get worse. I just hope there's enough madness left to disrupt the process before it becomes inevitable. if a madman is running, elect the madman, because sanity as we're calling it today is going to be our downfall. society needs more chaos, hunger, violence, death, decay, all that; we've forgotten or humanity as we're so detached from it. no wonder people find religion, classical literature art, music &c., things which have been considered eternal for centuries or millenia, irrelevant today. we're not even living like human beings anymore. the world might as well have already ended. and ironically to come back from that brink will only happen when we find ourselves on another. but we will.
the center cannot hold! one day we'll get our humanity back. today Trump, buffoon though he may be, may be our best option (the supposed huge scandal of his off color remarks about women recorded accidentally contains no material anyone who's ever hung out with the dudes in a a titty-bar or been in a locker room hasn't heard; so really, this out to humanize Trump, over the inhuman Hilary, who may honestly not exist but as an avatar for the interests of, for lack of a better term and although this one is fraught, the New World Order.)
From a post I made in the art thread a while ago, very relevant
William Harris,
Futile Cleaning of that Pesky Human Stain, ink on linen, 40x30"
[Harris] says; “
My painting Futile Cleaning portrays individuals covering, cleaning, and blotting out the light that shines upon them. It's based on some artistic aspirations of Ad Reinhardt, who said, My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil … With his intentions and work in mind, my painting sheds light on one way we seek to discard the human element - trying to block out and cover up any light that shines on it.” He is turning the abstract painter Ad Reinhart, famed for claiming that he was “making the last paintings anyone could paint” on his head! He is telling a reportedly great and famous artist, in a sophisticated way only another painter can; “Jamb It!” Yet, does anyone notice? Is anyone buying Williams work for six figures? Not yet, but hey the guy is only 31, still young for an artist of serious artistic ambition.
—
Floyd Alsbach, Stuckist Painter and Critic,
On Conservative Culture and the Arts
My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil
The way that I read this is: darkness and peace means that we can pacify the world, create a peaceful, but totalitarian and unenlightened society, unquestioning of authority, uninquisitive in general; or we can be aware of ourselves and each other, but this necessarily involves the evils that humanity has always experienced. Of course these are two extremes, but there's a lot to be said for our society heading towards the former—mesmerized and pacified by popular entertainments, strong and coercive laws, and such to the detriment of human nature, which is fundamentally evil (in the Christian sense, or in any sense that you want to take it, that humanity has throughout it's history been marked by wars and other evils) but also has "light," whereby we can enlighten ourselves and do other than evil; whereas in the society of "darkness and peace" we have lost the "light" for the sake of a permanent peace, sacrificing our true nature, with it's infinite possibilities (see Genesis 3, "the tree of knowledge of good and evil" was the "apple" that Adam and Eve ate, giving them the
dual nature of mankind that we have today) and free will. Without that, we may have peace, but not humanity.
![:\](https://bluelight.org/xf/BL_Images/Orig_Emoji/wrygrin.gif "wry grin :\")
... well if it's unknown to them that does point to a precursor or byproduct rather than a psychoactive that may be counterindicated, but I guess I'll have to go extra slow with it.
