From
my notes for The Underground: “Whatever the core problem of The
Individual might be, DATA is not the answer. A system is not the
answer. Neutral sanitized language is not the answer. These modern
affectations eat away at the electric forces of the soul…”
THE POWER OF THE INDIVIDUAL, BEYOND ANY MODERN DESCRIPTION…
This
is not a power that never existed before. This is not new for the
individual. This is what has been sidelined and lost and forgotten and
buried miles below the surface.
I’m talking about towering creative power, not “doily power” or “Easter egg decorating power.”
In
Jonathan Swift’s novel, Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver is captured by a
tiny race of Lilliputians. In modern society, Gulliver voluntarily
shrinks himself down to the size of a Lilliputian.
Contrary
to the weak flaccid and madhouse principles of modern psychology,
ACTUAL psychology would deal with two towering impulses within the
individual:
Creation and destruction. The impulse to create and the impulse to destroy.
Modern civilization has the hidden goal of wiping out both of these impulses; instead, substituting top-down control. CONTROL.
The
individual today is viewed by The Manipulators as a social construct,
to be profiled, grouped, poked, tested, subjected to stimuli like a dog
in a lab, re-engineered.
Indeed, many abject individuals see themselves as cogs in a social apparatus, and approve of the arrangement.
The
preeminently successful hundred-year-plus program for embedding control
is medical. I have exposed the details of the program for the past 40
years. You could sum it up as toxification and pacification and
technological chaining of the body and brain.
CONTROL
is the elite solution to the twin impulses of creating and
destroying. Wipe them both out. Bury them. “They resist
organization. They’re wild cards. They cut through all the rules and
regulations of society.”
If
you want pictures of creation and destruction in action, above the
level of ordinary civilization, look to the stories co-opted by
religions; the battles among the ancient Greek gods, the Egyptian gods,
the Norse gods, and so on. This is creative and destructive power
unleashed, on a grand scale, and at some point it became
unacceptable. Instead…
Modern civilization developed. Modern society. Modern culture. Modern behavior. Modern organization.
Submission. Freedom
granted by governments as “liberty,” meaning limited freedom within the
context and constraints enacted by “the people’s representatives.” A
whole host of fictions arose. “Worship the god we tell you to
worship.” “Believe only in power that exists ELSEWHERE.”
Consciousness
is a placid lake, some theorists claim. Lie on your back, float in the
collective infinite. As if THIS would erase the twin towers of creation
and destruction in the individual psyche. Pathetic.
Two
things are now happening across the whole world. The expansion of
top-down brutal control, and the emergence of the destructive impulse
coming to the fore like a common currency.
The
creative impulse is buried so deep in most individuals, they wouldn’t
recognize it if you put it on a plate and served it for supper. They
wouldn’t know what you were talking about. They certainly wouldn’t
understand that a creative renaissance was absolutely necessary to
offset what is happening in the world now.
If
you referred them to giants like Michelangelo or Da Vinci or Beethoven
or Mahler or Melville or Whitman or Goya or Stravinsky or Charlie
Parker, they would think you were reciting the names of creatures from
another planet. They might suspect you were trying to tear down God from
his throne (the very God organized religions tell you is the True One).
Here
is a clue. The most successful entertainment organization in the world,
Disney/Marvel, has been producing one epic after another featuring
mythological characters come to life as super-heroes and villains
engaging in planetary and galactic battles of creation-and-destruction;
millions of people watch these special-effect tales on screens,
mesmerized and energized by the scale of the conflicts (very much like
the Olympic gods at war with one another).
It’s
no accident that humans crave these movies. They reflect (however
cartoonishly) what is going on in the human psyche; the impulses of
creation and destruction. The movies unearth what has been buried.
Under
hundreds of layers of conditioning, the real psychology of the
individual has everything to do with how these two towering impulses are
dealt with BY the individual himself.
“Oh
no, I’m not involved with those…impulses. I’m a card-carrying member of
society. I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’m small, I’m trying
to fit in, unless I’m against fitting in, in which case I’m dedicated to
rejecting the proposal to install a traffic light at the corner of Main
and Broadway…”
SMALLNESS
is the overriding proposition. Every problem and solution has to be
defined and worked out within a shrunken strangulating context.
Therefore,
you can see all sorts of grotesquely played-out melodramas that
unconsciously give vent to creative-destructive- impulse leaks from the
individual.
The
bloviating businessman who peddles cheap crap for a living parades
around as if he were a living pillar of charity in his community, while
he turns the screws on his employees by paying them a bare living wage
and, privately, delights in their misfortune. Small stage play of
creation and destruction.
Ditto
for the grifter-politician who swears dedication to the groups he’s
creating for the betterment of his people, knowing these causes will
lead to further impoverishment and crime and, ultimately, submission and
surrender. Create and destroy.
I
could name and describe hundreds of small accommodations and
expressions which attempt to mediate between the creating and destroying
impulses within the individual.
Their smallness is just a cover for the Niagara-forces these impulses actually embody.
“If I shrink myself down, my impulses will shrink, too.”
It doesn’t work that way.
The impulses never shrink.
This is the problem. The titanic trying to become tiny.
Creation
and destruction make up an existential situation within the individual
and his psyche. How will he approach the situation? Not with easy
answers, I can assure you. Not with a quick 10-minute fix---the favorite
remedy-style of the modern age. Not with a pill. Not with grass-fed
beef. Not with a medical mask. Not with a fear of germs. Not with
meditation. Not with a group. Not with algorithms. Not with
computers. Not with a brain-machine interface or nanoparticles or
organized human anthills of the 21st century. Not with churches.
With
CONTROL taking center stage in new forms, and on the march, the first
great undertaking is the recognition that CREATIVE POWER has always
existed within the individual. And that power needs expression. On a
scale that reflects its magnitude.
Impossible?
Fortunately,
in the work of artists I mentioned above, and in the work of many
others of the same size, there are worlds to explore. These artists are
not dead. Their work isn’t dead…
You want to know the beginning?
You’re sitting on top of a grassy mountain
And you know you could build a city in the valley
You could destroy a city in the valley
You could do both
You
know it…like a boiling pepper in the mind, like an ice cube in the
liver, like a steamroller, a traitor on trial, a saint in a cave, a god
with his sword, a tiger pacing in his cage
You’re going to approach these two forces inside you
You’re
going to walk around them and through them and sniff titanic waves and
sink to the bottom of lost ships and come up out of the foam
You’re
not going to run away into a little box and read the law for the next
thousand years and join the society of obedient babbling idiots wearing
thin lips
You’re going to burn away the strangulating false fronts
You’re going to know you can invent a city or destroy one
You’re going to come to grips with that
You’re not going to automatically jump ahead and say you’re a citizen of the realm
You’re not going to say there is nothing you want to destroy
You’re not going to remain two-dimensional for the next thousand years
Coming
to grips with, and seeing the impulse to destroy within yourself is
completely different from giving vent to, and enacting that impulse. The
people who go around destroying are not coming to grips with anything.
On
the other hand, imagine an innovative architect who is designing
buildings no one has ever seen before. In his sketches, in his plans, he
creates and destroys. He looks at his work in progress, and he
decisively obliterates whole sections that don’t fit his vision and his
instincts. He creates new wings of a building in his drawings and wipes
some of them out. By the alive process of creating and destroying he
arrives at what he wants to make real in the world.
I’ve
known many aspiring artists who stall at the gate and never get off the
ground, because they’re afraid that, if they put words on the page or
shapes on the canvas, those words and shapes will have to remain there
forever. To put it another way, they can’t conceive of destroying what
they create. They believe “destruction is bad.” So they never create
anything.
I’ve
known painters who look at what they’ve put on the canvas for days and
months; they keep looking; they’re not satisfied; but they’re afraid to
wipe out a whole section. They’re afraid because they don’t realize they
can create endlessly. They don’t realize that destroying half of a
painting will lead to a new painting.
Civilization
and society have always tried to define the limits of the creative
process, as in: REDUCTION. Boil it down. Make it less. Make it
smaller. Hem it in. Summarize it. Claim the individual creator should,
first and foremost, be a citizen. A creature inside the system. This is a
sick joke. And every artist of reality has rejected the joke with a
mere dismissive glance.
The
prescribed default position of the modern individual is: “I neither
create nor destroy; I’m neutral; I adjust; whatever real power is, it
resides outside myself; there is no larger context in which I can
conceive of ACTION; if I feel deficient, I join a group.”
And
people wonder why they have problems they can’t quite put their finger
on. They wonder why their energies seem to be diminishing.
Consider
the case of Nikola Tesla. The popularized story has it that he could
see, in his imagination, all the complex moving parts of the energy
devices he was inventing before he even made a preliminary sketch, much
less a working prototype. It was all there in his mind. Magic. Genius.
I
guarantee that was the not the whole story. Whether in his mind, on
paper, or in prototype, he created and destroyed many models, before he
arrived at one he believed would work to unleash and harness awesome
amounts of force and energy.
He
didn’t have an iota of worry about destroying what was unworkable. He
wasn’t looking for a compromise or a shoddy but sellable piece of
goods. He was focused on the far shore. Nothing less than the
redirecting and transforming of Nature’s Flow.
And
with each progressive step, there were spontaneous unexplainable
insights that allowed him to move forward. His vision was Promethean. He
wasn’t “neutral” or “objectively scientific” like some
mechanical-minded little lab researcher trying to squeeze out a tiny
extension of what was already known in order to publish a paper and
secure a job.
The
irony is, if Tesla had produced a working prototype that tapped into
the Earth’s power and brought energy to every person on the planet, how
many people would have said, “I want to operate and EXPRESS the great
forces I have, as Tesla did,” versus…
“Thank
you, Nikola, for the free energy. Now I can receive these gifts and sit
back and enjoy them…I don’t have to look inside myself and see what is
there…”
“I’m a Gulliver who is opting to be a Lilliputian.”
“Does
anybody have a drug I can use to forget what I really am? A drug like
Alice took to shrink down, outside the little door to Wonderland?”
Yes. It’s
called modern civilization. You can go through the Clockwork Orange
door. The DARPA mind control door. The medical-drug and vaccine
door. The street drug door. The education system door. The media
door. The good behavior gold star on the blackboard door...
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(The link to this article posted on my blog is here.)
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