JB of Meta-Logic Cafe pointed out that Johnny Carcosa, the great initiator of Alan Moore's Lovecraft Trilogy would be quite the fashion plate these days. Carcosa-- and Moore-- certainly anticipated the times we live in today, when all our social and political institutions begin to melt and fall away.
I seriously doubt the implosion process is going to end there.
I realize a lot of you don't read comics but if you were to read only one (well, three) graphic novel I can't possibly recommend The Courtyard, Neonomicon and Providence highly enough. Although it's all heavily draped in allegory and cultural references you may not recognize or appreciate, it pretty well describes where we are now and how we got here. Give or take.
But it all ultimately deals with the dissolution of all the old certainties and the replacement of the old materialistic world we lived in with a world ruled by dream logic.
Keep this in mind, because what you are seeing going on out there isn't a revolution as it's properly understood. The alleged revolutionaries are actually storm troops for what is essentially a rear-guard action by the people who've been sitting atop of the power pyramid for the past century or so.
That's not a theory-- it's all published fact.
This current unrest has little to do with the evil legacy of slavery or the equally-evil legacy of institutional racism, not for the conductors of this orchestra. On the contrary: the people who are pulling the strings are mostly the primary beneficiaries of institutional racism themselves.
Instead, it's all basically a frantic attempt to maintain power against a rival faction of the elite, not an action to usurp the elite entirely. Just look at who is funding all these radical groups- and why-- and that soon becomes apparent.
A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil
The question becomes do you resist this state of conflict or embrace it, if not actually try to accelerate it? If/when this elite civil war is resolved, where are we then? Are we just back at the same old place we were before, sitting atop a kettle endlessly simmering to boil, waiting for it to all start again?
This is why I could never be a conservative; there's nothing left to conserve.
If the old Chinese proverb holds true and every crisis contains the seeds of opportunity, then where does that leave us? I think most of us aren't anywhere near any source of power and wealth, in fact maybe we're all less so than most. But does that matter?
People who hold power and wealth spend all their time trying to hold onto it and fail to look outside their structured paradigms, fail to see threats or opportunities until it's too late.
What Moore's trilogy illustrates is how potent signals from other realities are usually ignored by the great mass of people and only received and re-transmitted by people who truly exist on the margins and don't have anything to lose.
So, in the same way that billionaires are expropriating the ideas of obscure radicals (practically unknown while they were alive) to do battle with other billionaires, no one ever expected a Lovecraft or a PKD or a Jack Kirby to remake pop culture in their own image. But here we are.
It's interesting to see efforts made by the powerful to appropriate the power of the powerless, but I don't think they realize that that power actually comes from somewhere else, and can't rightly be received by people who keep one eye cocked on a spreadsheet and the other cocked at their mentions. They can only ever create a simulacrum of the real thing, and even then the odds are overwhelmingly against them.
That's why it was a truism that artists do their best work when they're poor and hungry, then coast once those big fat paychecks start rolling in. I remember seeing this mentioned in a Queen documentary, explaining how their landmark work was made when they were broke. They made some good records after "Bohemian Rhapsody" made them rich, but nothing that sizzled with that elusive, face-grabbing power of the first four albums.
What I'm trying to say is that we clearly have no influence on this war currently raging in Heaven, but maybe rifts and tears from elsewhere will be opening up while it does. And maybe simply by receiving those signals you can be part of something real (or unreal), that will rise from the ashes once the two wings of the MIC exhaust each other in battle.
Certainly nothing as dark and sinister as Lovecraft's Old Ones, mind you, but hopefully something equally as powerful. Just something to consider while the foundations shake beneath our feet. Do you want to go on forever in this dead, sterile materialistic paradigm or do you want build something new if/when it falls?
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