27/2 SUPERMASSIVE

PIC: KM 2012

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WHO PUT THE BOMP?

Another in the run of belated Xanaduum entries! Busy week!

I was somewhat sceptical previously, but I’m convinced by the so-called ‘Mandela effect’ at last, thanks to the Andrew formerly known as Prince.

For the entirety of my life, all 66 years, I’ve known that the former Prince Andrew was born on February 3^rd. He was born three days after me, which was also the birthday of my school friend Andrew Duff, with whom the then prepubescent prince shared a Christian name.

As of now, however, the disgraced Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, ‘Randy Andy’, was born on February 19^th, 1960. It’s on record, and yet I know for a fact that, when I was younger, his birthday was on February 3^rd. For me, this is a bona fide glitch in my Matrix.

Maybe that story about the CERN accelerator shunting us into a bleak alternative shitscape sailed closer to the truth than we’d like.

Recorded with Doug Rushkoff for his Team Human podcas on Wednesday. There was, I felt, a certain pressure on both of us to create a definitive statement in 90 minutes, which I’m not sure is possible. I finish these things feeling quite satisfied and invigorated by the conversation, then minutes after it’s over, I immediately think of all the other, better things I might have said!

In this case, I came too prepped with all my usual talking points and felt I went on a bit too much. Sometimes I get tired of the sound of my own voice and the familiar, cloying taste of my personal philosophies.

My advice for the young people of the 21^st century is simple:

Learn Magic. There are a ton of sources and resources that will help you get started. It’s real, it works, it puts you on a level playing field, and confers agency.

The Dark Magicians who rule the world, primarily control its material aspect, its expression in Malkuth, with their ideologies shading into Yesod, and the sphere of imagination, where they are less powerful and have a lot of competition. They have the stuff, the oil, the rare earths, the minerals, the heavy elements, the Bomb, the forces of physics and chemistry in their employ. Most of us are powerless against that weight of destructive physicality, but in the realm of Imagination and in the higher domains of Intellect, Emotion, Spirit and beyond, Magicians have the advantage. ‘We’ are well acquainted with territories ‘they’ are too weighed down by wealth to reach, let alone map.

With Magic, you can form relationships with powers that are vastly older and stronger than the monsters currently in charge.

It’s not Light vs Dark, it’s Light vs. Heavy.

Everything is rolling out exactly as predicted. We can all play our parts in pushing through this grim phase.

I finished The Cuckoo’s Lea and Lazarus, the Bowie book, moving from there to The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination, which I do deeply dig!

This week I continued to work on that film project I mentioned, plus a couple of upcoming comic things.

I’ve just discovered Sam Bentley’s Good News channel where he gives a monthly report on the upbeat, optimistic human stories that provides a much needed alternative to the tide of vomit and diarrhoea that overwhelms us every time someone in power opens their maw.

MOUTH WIDE SHUT

What with all the excitement in the news about rich people and their Hostel-style approach to leisure, I decided to watch Eyes Wide Shut for the first time. I’m a Kubrick fan but this one never appealed to me and now I know why.

It’s not a great movie. I thought it was going to be much darker, but it’s really just a film about an upper middle-class uptight couple hitting a dull patch in their marriage (the point is made that their daughter is 7 years old to subtly emphasise the ‘7-year itch’ theme and the whole thing has the feel of a bourgeois French sex comedy) and finding out that bottling up fantasies and feelings can lead to misunderstanding and paranoia.

Not quite the exposé of international Moloch/Baal-worshipping sex magic cultists I was led to believe and I’m not quite convinced by the conspiracy theories which claim the film outs the ‘Epstein class’.

For that important undertaking, there’s only one destination and that’s Happy! Season 2! Sonny Shine’s kompromat VHS tapes featuring the rich and famous engaged in paedophilia, Nazism, and cannibalism seem almost whimsical now!

It struck me during the masked and robed ‘orgy’ sequence in Eyes Wide Shut that the oligarchy’s idea of a sex party is to take all the fun and spontaneity out of it. All that atonal chanting and censer-swinging suggests that the global elite’s approach to nookie is to make it gloomy and ritualistic, heavy and ponderous with ancient authority, protocol and pomp. Anxiety is evoked by the music, the lighting and the dehumanising masks, demonstrating that fear is the special sauce in sexuality for these wealthy weirdos.

So it came to pass I found myself cackling wildly enough to chase the cats from the bed covers as I instructed my prodigious imagination to place Tom Cruise, wearing tux, cloak and Venetian carnival mask, into this scene from Rita, Sue and Bob Too from 1986…

This is how they do it up North…

Rita Sue and Bob Too having a gang bang HD

It’s all too easy to see Tom watching furtively from the sidelines before getting dragged into the circular conga at the end. I know I’ve forsworn AI, but Seedance 2.0 was surely made for inserting the uptight Dr. Bill Harford into ‘We’re Having a Gang Bang’…

Talking to Doug about the current state of the world, especially here in the West. I hit some kind of threshold of tolerance for the people who dominate the news these days and inveigle their way into every discussion.

I’m thoroughly sick of the global elite! I’ve had enough, and I bet I’m not alone.

When I contemplate Andrew, Trump, Epstein, and all the rest, I experience a visceral desire to throw up and be done with them. The revulsion has become physical! A class of privileged, sociopathic moral gnats are responsible for drowning us in their hateful daily spewnami of ugliness, corruption, lies, ignorance, racism, misogyny and cruelty. If they had any idea just how fucking miserable it is being stuck on the same planet as this ghastly crew of vampires, it would probably turn them on even more!

Isn’t there a way to lure them to some exotic island - Atlantis perhaps - with the promise of curried human flesh, then maroon them there forever?

How about we all get together to fake societal and civilizational collapse, and when they retreat to their bunkers in terror, we lock them in and lose the keys in the fires of Mount Doom?

This boring, needy, and unimaginative cohort were given an unprecedented opportunity to show us what they can do with eyewatering amounts of money and power, and the present planetary shitshow is the best they can come up with. They’ve failed humankind and made everything worse for everyone, including themselves.

They have all the resources, none of the wisdom or foresight. No ideas. No blueprint for a future that doesn’t involve installing authoritarian bullies in all positions of power, wiping out the poor, and fucking the innocent, the vulnerable, the rare, and endangered. They take inhuman delight in the destruction of the natural world and living things. They know how to break and steal and lie and otherwise have nothing to offer. They hate us all and hate themselves more. They will end us if we let this go on too much longer.

That money is wasted on them. Take it back! Tax the billionaires back to the barter age!

Because the surefire way to get rid of the poor is to redistribute the money from the top. Musk could give away billions and still be a billionaire. He could empower people smarter and younger and less toxic than himself. They might be able to make something of the chance to change the world for the better in a way that he and his lucre-bloated cronies seem completely ill-equipped to do.

Instead, these morbidly wealth-obese disappointments would rather waste their time on Earth revitalising the worst failed ideologies of the 20^th century than come up with viable ideas for the future. Stale fascism is the utmost best their atrophied imaginations can conceive as an alternative political system?

If they get the chance to ruin lives, they reliably seize it. If they can strip environmental protections and sacrifice species to the depredations of the obsolete fossil fuel industries, they will fall over themselves to expedite extinction. If they get to Mars, which I’ll bet money they never will, they’ll fuck that up too, in the same hamfisted way they wreck and despoil everything they come into proximity with! King Midas in reverse.

As I said to Doug, we used to have showbusiness, now we have an international cadre of outlandish characters cosplaying politicians in a kind of pseudo-political reality show that must have constant cliffhangers, twists, and shocks to maintain ratings – war, perversion, crime, nukes, UFOs - and keep jaded viewers riveted to the antics of the desperately dull and breathtakingly ugly as they live out their Hollywood dreams by commandeering every available screen and media outlet. It’s The West Wing but with all the creeps from school pretending to run the country, while picking its pockets and feeling up its kids.

It has nothing to do with serious governance and relies on cartoonish chancers supplying over-the-top exhausting, repetitive performance and outrage. They have mistaken the boring administrative reality they occupy for some paranoid porno thriller. They love to choke the media with the accumulated fatberg of their banal, goings-on. Ultimately, they want to force us to watch them preen and posture 24 hours a day.

Why did we choose to elevate, valorise, reward and arm the very worst among us? What did we think would happen to us? Wasn’t this warning enough the first time around?

PIC: Irwin Hasen 1940 © DC Comics

Paddy O’Pinion, there, ladies, gentlemen and others! That’s them told, Paddy!

Bravo!

It might console Paddy somewhat that the UK electorate rejected the odious Nigel Farage and his Reform racists in yesterday’s Manchester by-election. The media has provided the favourable wind behind Farage’s sails in this country, obsessively promoting him and presenting his victory as a fait accompli but, as I suspected, ‘ordinary’ people have been watching what’s going on in the USA and, surprisingly, they don’t want rich fascist degenerates in charge of their lives, no matter what The Times or the BBC would prefer us to believe.

Naturally, Reform’s human Toby Jug has resorted to whining that the vote was rigged!

Meanwhile, in the real world, Momus has been releasing his new album Mannequin, song by song over the last few weeks. It’s nice to have a favourite artist who continues to create with no sign of stopping!

AND NOW THE ACTION’S TAKING PLACE

Sean – I’m always wary of translated work, although I’ve read a lot. I always feel I could be missing something essential that doesn’t survive the ride from Greek, Italian, French, or German to English.

Goethe’s two Faust dramas are rarely performed, so I don’t know how easy it would be to see it live. I tried to listen to an audio book to see if that was an option, but it felt a bit flat.

I agree plays are better attended than read but in this case Parts 1 and 2 together would take 21 hours to stage! From what I can determined there have only ever been two productions of the complete and unabridged work. You might as well read it!

I’m not a huge K-Pop fan – most of the songs sound very alike – but Blackpink’s Pink Venom was a good distillation of the approach.

I haven’t watched Generation Z yet, but Kill List is probably my favourite Ben Wheatley film, so I’m intrigued to hear there’s a connection. Did you catch Ben’s interview on the weekly 2000AD podcast?

Exclusive Ben Wheatley interview — In Orbit Every Wednesday

Bobby – I view Wilber’s integral schema as the ‘holarchy’ he prefers to call it – it’s more like the rings of a tree, than the rungs of a ladder – but I’ll check out the Washburn approach.

The new Agnosis looks great…

Patrick – I think you’re onto something - Epstein’s intellectual aspirations crashing vainly against the base desires of the intellectuals he courted and who courted him seems like part of it for sure.

I’m experiencing no disillusion whatsoever at the antics of the UK’s Royal Monsters! I expected no less from them. This is the least of it.

My reasons for getting into Buckingham Palace were occult and private. Otherwise, I’m afraid there are no privileges attached to an MBE, the lowest order of award given to people who have made positive contributions to their communities or excelled in their fields of endeavour. It doesn’t open any doors or confer any special advantages, I’m afraid. Nor does it necessarily predispose the recipient to the concept of Empire or Monarchy.

I didn’t tour with Deepak Chopra, (playing rhythm guitar with the Deepak Six) but I did do three panel discussions with him, (2006, 2008, 2011), at the San Diego Comicon when I was working on the Graphic India stuff with his son Gotham and Sharad Devarachan - 18 Days, Dinosaurs vs. Aliens and Avatarex. Chopra agreed to the talks as a way of promoting his son’s venture into comics publishing. I had dinner with them the night before the first panel in 2006 and enjoyed some high-level conversation about consciousness and spirituality as Chopra sounded me out.

The panels were great at the time, and all had a good upbeat energy, but as we’ve known since the Maharishi at least, you can’t trust pro gurus to be genuinely spiritual people. The pursuit of money and success, while trying to project a kind of ‘holy’ image, tends to screw it up.

This is the Aeon of Horus in full spate – systems crashing down, the law, the monarchy, the media, gurus - the gilded baby king’s rampage clearing the way for a rebuilding and replanting.

In the meantime, I fear you may be right – we live on Earth-3! Just the other day, the New York Daily News described the Trump administration as ‘The most powerful crime syndicate in history!’.

The Horus energy is playing itself out exactly as we were forewarned it would do. Everything is still following a blueprint, or at least it appears that way when viewed through the Thelemic filter that I find useful to make sense of our current chaotic times.

Osiris – fascinating. To some extent, what happens in China can be regarded as a rehearsal for the 21st century, so I’m always intrigued to hear about daily life there.

Jimmy – hope you enjoy the chat with Doug & I! Haven’t seen Monarch yet.

Jonathan – I love this! Engrossing and enlightening work!

Brkndwnbus – the headlines followed the podcast appearance, yes, but apparently the original podcast producers floated a couple of variants and the more contentious headline tested better. It seems the audience prefers to be outraged, which is a total turn off for me. I’m not interested in that kind of engagement. It’s really easy to say outrageous or provocative things to cause a fuss and get noticed, but there comes a time for a bit of dignity…

BrotherDuffy – there’s a bunch of annotations for the Flashlight/Red Racer story right here on Xanaduum – go to 4^th June 2024 - that will answer all your questions! Earth-36 is inspired by the Big Bang comics universe and its alternative takes on DC characters.

I planned a Superman Squad book which would feature the future Supermen from All-Star, along with others. JH Williams was up for drawing it at the time.

I haven’t seen any superhero comics for ages, including Kryptonite Spectrum but I rate Prince and Morazzo highly, and I’m sure I’d enjoy it!

I like the look of Absolute Martian Manhunter, but I’ve only read the first one. The spiky creature that’s following John Jones around in the upcoming issue reminded me of the ‘Mood 7 Mind Destroyer’ from Seven Soldiers The Shining Knight issue #2.

Persefonie – the Fool sounds more my speed! I’m fortunate enough to always be doing something new. It’s one of the joys of my life that new things constantly, and often unexpectedly, turn up to do!

By ‘Alan’, I take it you’re referring to Norfolk broadcaster Alan Partridge?

If not, ‘Alan’ and I often say similar things about similar things! Some like to frame it as a feud or even a war, oddly enough, but I like to think it’s pretty fucking obvious to anyone with a brain that whether or not we agree on everything, we’ve always been on the same side.

Attitude and swagger are charming qualities! Ignorance and hubris perhaps less so, but I wouldn’t be apologising for any of them!

Jonny – Larry David, eh? Maybe I could AI the photo and present it as a Young Larry pilot, where a bright, optimistic and upbeat youth becomes the grouch we all love, like Scrooge in reverse!

I preferred Milton to Dante. Milton’s language, narrative and characters are just so much more gripping and modern in their psychology. It’s been nearly 40 years and I’m keen to do a re-read. I’m afraid I skimmed the Paradiso. Hope you enjoy New X-Men. I was very much influenced by the Claremont stuff I loved when I was 21, so there’s a lot of that in there.

Another one down – I plan to take a wire brush, Brillo scouring pads, and an angle grinder into the shower to scrub off the reeking taint of the news…

See you next time!