From: stereomutoscope <stereomutoscope-AT-gmail.com>
Date: 07 Jun 2008 02:30:27 UTC   (08:30:27 PM in author's locale)
To: Situationist <situationist-AT-lists.nothingness.org>

Less swinger bars, more monkeybars!

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Christopher Gray <rasputin-AT-teleport.com> wrote:
> This is being sent to the "cloudbusters" Yahoo group, and is in lieu of any
> received, simple factualizing of the physics of Orgonite effects,
> "tower-turning", and chemtrail-neutralizing....
> All I ask for is theoretical use-value, a rather simple request that Reich
> would have provided, provided the queried have any understanding or
> knowledge of him as both a non-mystic and a socially-critical scientist and
> critical social scientist.... I'm open to reality and its nature, but draw
> the line of knowledge at the point where faith bares its "righteous" and
> intelligence-free jaws.
>
> Old-fashioned mysticism is exactly what gave the German Socialist Workers
> Party (aka "Nazis") their good ole' down-home flare.
>
> It was at the very core of their "naturalistic" elitism, just as with other
> "chosen people" cults.
>
> Who needs science when Gaia and rancid Mythos are on your side! Who needs a
> social critique, analysis, or strategy?!
> We just need abstractly-subjective "experience", a sense of mass-ified
> denial as defense, and a cultish fervor with which to offend.
>
> How appropriate that once again we see it substituted for real[izing] social
> change and useful or made-available-to-all theory.
>
> How sad, cowardly, and witless that we find it cloaked in "Reich",
> "anarchism", and other social movements once so potent, and now, so
> spectacularly re-presented with associated idiotology... a pinch is all it
> takes when fear and a irrationalist cynicism are added to the characterized
> [aka "colonized"] "mix".
>
> What would I have preferred? What did I seek? For what did I make a simple
> request?
>
> How about, in Reich's real tradition, the documentation and spreading of
> devices and practices that cause an orgastic melting away or unfreezing of
> the confined ego, the alienated will, and captive critical mind? Instead, I
> see "method" that reinforces generalized dumbification by posing a false
> choice, a pseudo-opponency between the libidinized savior of
> pre-Enlightenment daze to the super-ego rational[ity] of current capital's
> logic and expansion. The light of humanity is waning and I get passed
> sanctified wands, belligerence, and rocks.
>
> How about a qualified "more" of the demonstrable and less of the wishfully
> imagined?
> How about a qualified "more" of the sexually-kinetic and less sect[arian]
> hocus-defocus?
> How about qualified social praxis rather than condemning the drive for that
> change with emotive pathos?
> How about spreading Reichian, Rifean, Teslan science rather than half-truths
> and outright deceit based in scam and hopelessness?
> How about free workshops, free products, and freedomized practice rather
> than shovels with which to dig deeper in the daily pile of shit?
> How about courage & truth rather than the partialized sales pitch & charm?
>
> Frankly, the "science" in cloudbusting and most everything I've seen paraded
> around the Big Top "is" precisely a circus joke and not that well done, at
> least not so far. It's said that the heart has reasons that reason must
> understand.... Well then, tie the mind, heart, and crotch together
> theoretically and practically so the humanity that is not abstract or
> near-dead may unleash it as a force for evolution and freedom, and not as
> some redirected web cash register front.
>
> Anyone care to gift something worth the name and tradition besides a
> characterologically-defended and offensive con of the sha[wo/]man?
>
> chris
> www.point-of-departure.org
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