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"Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics" by Marco Pasi, page 50 // "Noontime Songs" by Renzo Novatore // poster for Knightriders, dir. George Romero
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"Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics" by Marco Pasi, page 50 // "Noontime Songs" by Renzo Novatore // poster for Knightriders, dir. George Romero
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There's always something hauntingly complicated about nostalgia, the past, mostly because even with anarchism, what we are talking about was some of the conditions of the past, horrifically distant pasts even. Because there really were and can still be times when humans lived without states. Contrary to the most basic premise of fascism, the state is not an expression of primordial human existence or form. The modern nation state is just that: a modern invention, only a few centuries old. And besides this, states as such are still relatively recent for our entire history on this planet. From this standpoint it is clear, anarchism desires that which to some extent was our past and can still be our present, or even "future", again. Perhaps people can only move forwards in time, but people do not have to move forwards into statehood, panopticon, and new forms of slavery. It does not have to be this way. We can return to the possibilities of freedom that were once there, we can return to the absence of statehood that once was, and at the same time move forward, into new forms of freedom. We can only do this by discarding the modern world of statehood, which thus means discarding modernity, since modernity as such is inescapably defined by modern capitalist statehood.
Truth is, the reason nostalgia is a problem is not because it's bad, or even because it leads people into false visions of the past (which it does, easily, many species of nostalgia are based on false visions of the past, false hopes of turning back time), but because there may be no real escape from it. Indeed, if you could just turn back time, you would not have nostalgia as such, because nostalgia is nostalgia, and so powerful as it is, because human beings cannot simply go back to their moments of longing, just as they were. Yet, there are conditions, forms that can be reinstated, in the present. I suppose this takes faith, revolutionary faith if need be, in the possibility that things can be different from the world as it exists. Without it, you have no hope of breaking from capitalist modernity, and will be condemned to flow along its track until either you die or it dies (and it will).
Point is, there is no real escape from nostalgia as such, and nostalgia will always remain an unsolvable problem, because we are who we are because we are nostalgic for freedom, and without this we are nothing.
Oh, not to mention, mark my words, it's only going to be more and more the case as time goes on, as we march blindly into an artificially-hallucinated future, ruled by surveillance systems, enforced through coercion, children who are born into that world unable to remember what life was like before. The problem of nostalgia will only "worsen" in the conditions to come, at least unless the conditions to come are put a stop to in the present. Nostalgia for freedom will only sharpen, grow more furious and virulent, even as it is repressed, and you will not escape it no matter what you do.
Faith in chaos, an interesting phrase because it invites the notion of nhilism, at least anarchist nihilism, as a paradox, at least since any notion of "faith" to be admittedly by the nihilist must always, unavoidably, be a paradox (it's just about whether you're willing to embrace that or not!). A "nihilism" that is to be defined by its faith in chaos first and foremost, because this faith in chaos must be seen as the highest commitment to the absolute possibility of another world (and chaos in "Shamanic Nietzsche" represents another kind of "phenomenal world" unknowable to us). But in a way also a similar faith in chaos is also the sun god's conviction, his willingness to descend to the abyssal waters, in the underworld, knowing that by doing so he will regenerate himself again and again.
I think I actually like this as a way of referring to the Magical Universe, the polytheistic cosmos, or even the true "chaos" of anarchy.
A thought breaks in almost like a band of raiders into the city walls: the past is now, there is no future. The Evil in Literature and Evil
A sort of ramble about time war, atavistic resurgence, and the Witches Sabbath that I wrote mainly because of Verletzen, which I guess makes it black metal theory.
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No war but my war, or time war.
Human, you are an animal whose desire is to become a god. Yet you cannot be that animal, because you need to be a human being. So you create a world where governments, laws, rules, values, force you to be a human being, and with great violence do they force you to be human, deny anything other than your humanity. But then they leave you with only the shadow of this humanity. Now some people are human, and others are not, until finally even you are not human, and perhaps, after some time, no one will be human anymore. But chaos will set you free. You can still be the animal you really are. And your eyes may still lock towards the heavens, as you prowl the forests again. Let yourself be that animal if you want to be free. Demons are your friends. Let yourself be something like them. Become demon, become beast, become savage, become barbarian, and fly towards the deepest place, the heavens, the universe, and thrust the gates wide open.
I think there is still an inner belief that, whether people realise it or not, there is a fire inside every person, and there are problems that arise because people do not see it or feel it in themselves. Because people do not see the fire, they pass through their lives and it is as if they allow it to either weaken and "die" or retreat from them somehow. If the fire is strong, let it burn, feed it, let yourself burn things. If the fire is weak, you must help it grow, feed it, nourish it, so that you can be strong. But you must acknowledge, sense, feel, see the fire, you must know it in yourself and not forget, for as long as you do know you will keep it, tend to it, stoke it in yourself. Fire is a source of light, warmth, and heat, and you yourself can be a source of light, heat, warmth, brilliance, and by this not surrender to the patterns of resignation and defeat that other people ignorantly give themselves over to. And yeah, I'll admit it's a perspective that kinda doesn't make sense without the territory of religious, mystical, or occult language: or, in other words, the world of the sacred. And I'm here for it. Not least because at some point it does indeed go back to paganism, certainly the solar or solar-theurgical cult (ultimately linked to pre-Christian goetia too).