Category: Archons
Weekly inputs #7
Weekly inputs #6
The Archives of the Impossible conference has had some great material that I am slowly making time to work through. Two more viewings below that were quite fascinating. More to come.
Weekly inputs #5
Weekly Inputs #4
Alice Coltrane – 16mm documentary via Aquarium Drunkard
Regarding these times: Shut It via CircleThrice
Weekly Inputs #3
Does anyone else remember this series from the 80s? Loved/was terrified by the gooey aliens decomposing in season 1 but almost forgot how apocalyptic and technoir goth the second season got. Huge imprints.
Useful archonic analysis of late:
The Haunted Mansion of Freedom – Rhyd Wildermuth
follow up The Fog of War
further thoughts Caught Between Failing Empires
Insanity ascending…
So glad American centrists get to own the MAGAs by skipping trivialities like health care and going straight to the precipice of nuclear holocaust against countries that had fuck-all to do with anything of consequence in their domestic politics. I know a two-front second Cuban Missile Crisis was exactly what the world was hoping for after a pandemic.
This world such as it is
We could be providing for all, rewilding, re-enchanting and regenerating the world in full luxury communism but we get plagues, supply chain disruptions, absurd narratives and insane war postures engineered by and/or leveraged in favour of a privileged few.
The praxis of it all being to somehow find a way to live the former even as the latter collapses into both its own contradictions and into an absurd and ever stretching longevity.
The interminable screech
The common denominator with the few voices I can still listen to about these Current Times is not a uniformity of views, concerns, or criticisms but an approach of not screeching at ground level human worries about it all.
Adding my own input is not something I am even remotely inclined to do outside of trusted personal conversation. And even then.
When asked about the state of the States…
I’m just, not, with the minutiae of spectacular and distracting US domestic politics of late. If at this point you are STILL unable to identify, at minimum, the leadership of both major parties and every administration over the last two decades as representatives of the worst iterations of brutal capitalism and bloody empire then I don’t know what I can tell you.
Maybe enjoy another musical number about democracy, a crappy New Yorker cartoon that makes you glad Trump is gone even if his policies went nowhere (yay?), while more kids than ever get deported, you get sick or evicted with no help while having institutions point accusatory fingers at you for not doing enough, or get conscripted in another year or two to fight in Crimea or Taiwan.