The CIA didn't invent abstract expressionism and creative non-fiction to smother Soviet realism, that is layer 1, that is the cover story. The true purpose was to counter, say, Joyce & Pound in writing, or Dali & Picasso in art, artist as shamanic visionary for universal man
The promise of post-war liberalism is: Now we are all shamanic, you are free to spend your 4 allotted hours in the Fordist worker's paradise to delve into the waters of your own SUBJECTIVITY and impress the colors and shapes you see onto a canvas for the world
Its easy and anyone can do it. So once this process is iterated enough, universal recognition will be achieved and consciousness will reach its end of its historical development
Artists interpretation of the Illuminati fragmenting Western consciousness, which historically emerged as a series of leaping ascending unities, an ultralight beam, into shards of divorced subjectivity
Message of DSoTM is that post-war society cannot provide answers to Time, mortality, Money, & history, only a series of parallel alternatives. The art reflects the title of the track "Any Color You Like", a quote from Henry Ford about illusion of choice in capitalist markets
The only logical response to this situation, says DSoTM, is becoming insane, or rather, in the artist's specific phrasing, lunacy.
What is lunacy? There is a solar modality, the Apollonian, which is providing order, it is climbing up to a great mountain peak and seeing everything under the sun and how it is arranged, it is revealing, it is structure, economy, the ratio.
And there is a lunar modality (dont think precisely the same as Dionysian, not sure if there's a word for it), which is shapes emerging in the trees at dusk, it is hallways, interiors, curtains, moving towards the dream-state, feeling without seeing, joy in what-is-not-revealed
Existing entirely in the lunar modality creates conditions for madness, and this is the difference between genius and insanity, the question of whether the shaman is able to use his sense of ratio to ascend & project himself onto universal man, or drown in waters of subjectivity
The visionary thinker sees patterns in world history and reveals them as a prosocial act of reaching across. The schizophrenic sees patterns in the colors of cars which pass by his window and closes the curtains in terror
As such, in the embrace of subjectivity, the abstract expressionist painter or the magical realist author comes closer to replicating the spontaneous projections of a child or a lunatic than mirroring the forms of high art of the past
You can tell that Harry Potter is CIA propaganda because Voldemort's driving motive (whom aside from this is just cartoonish pure evil with no real human traits) is said to be his inordinate fear of death. This comes from the OSS's wartime psychological report on Hitler
It seems odd to argue Hitler had an inordinate fear of death given that he pursued a highly dangerous & violent course of action with low chance of success. What is more likely is he had a positive drive for immortality, pathological need to impose his subjectivity on history
The post war system is an attempt to adapt to technological developments that created the conditions for technocratic managerialism, while remaining robust against tyranny. As such, power is vested to overlapping bureaucratic networks rather than the apex of a hierarchy
Thus the narratives reflect this, it is mandated that the individual dissolve his will into the realm of parallel subjectivity. This is why every heroic character in Harry Potter rejects Voldemort's independent path to personal immortality & instead joins the bureaucracy
Importantly, Harry contains a piece of Voldemort's soul inside his own consciousness, in the final battle this is destroyed along with Voldemort. You need to kill the Voldemort inside yourself (aspirations towards manifestation of personalized will)
This is why Jordan Peterson for example is decried as fascistic despite making it quite clear in his words and actions that he is a conservative liberal and outspokenly hostile to fascistic developments in American politics
Simply by narrativizing these archetypical structures on how visions create order from chaos, he is replicating the conditions from which totalitarianism emerged. Because what is essential to internalize in the contemporary age is - men do NOT create order, the system does.
Try not to go insane ! 🤪
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