IVIV (7): He's So Heavy

rich richard.romeo at gmail.com
Mon Sep 28 13:43:10 CDT 2009


and even Chemistry has its fascists--those nasty ionic bonds. even
nature seems fundamentally fascist at times, no? how does nature
profit, that silly, dizzy headed critter...

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 2:28 PM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> But wait, there's more:
>
> GR (p. 419, Penguin):  "Kekule dreams the Great Serpent holding its own tail in its mouth, the dreaming Serpent which surrounds the World. But the meanness, the cynicism with which this dream is to be used.  The Serpent that announces, 'The World is a closed thing, cyclical,resonant, eternally returning," is to be delivered into a system whose only aim is to *violate* the Cycle."
>
> In these three short sentences we get:  the co-optation of mysticism, the dream-state, the Gaia principle, the "sweet hippie thing," if you will, by the corporate, the capitalistic, bent on profit-making above all else.
>
> LK




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