FIVE SPEECHES SUCCEEDED BY THEIR SPEAKERS' THOUGHTS,

PRECEDING FIVE THOUGHTS SUCCEEDED BY THEIR THINKERS' SPEECHES

First Speaker

"Atomic weapons correspond to a later stage of petty-bourgeois military development, the 'barbarous' preceding the 'civilized' in terms of atomic bombs preceding nuclear missiles, the former dropping to earth from a large bomber, the latter hurtling through space once fired from their launch pads. Thus a distinction, in effect, between the mundane and the transcendent, which accords with that between lower and higher phases of late-stage petty-bourgeois evolution."

What makes atomic weapons petty bourgeois is the fact that they correspond to a relatively post-atomic status, a negative dualism implying the splitting of the atom, the severance, through nuclear fission, of electrons from protons and neutrons - an evolutionary stage between bourgeois atomicity and proletarian electron freedom, a kind of transition between the relative and the absolute, part mundane and part transcendent in constitution. Consequently atomic weapons are the weapons of the late-twentieth century, appropriate to a later petty-bourgeois age on both its civilized and barbarous sides, as mainly applying to the Americans and the Russians respectively. Because the late-twentieth century corresponds to a 'civilized' phase of higher petty-bourgeois development, it follows that missiles rather than bombs are the relevant weapons.

Second Speaker

"Just as late petty-bourgeois evolution passes through two phases, so proletarian evolution will do likewise, beginning in a 'barbarous' phase and proceeding, in time, to a 'civilized' phase, which will entail a distinction between the mundane use of laser weapons and, eventually, their transcendent use, meaning primarily that whereas during the lower phase of proletarian evolution laser beams will mainly be fired on the ground, either from guns or tanks, they'll be fired from satellites and such-like 'transcendent' phenomena during its higher phase. Thus we are distinguishing between laser guns and laser satellites."

What makes laser weapons proletarian is the fact that they correspond to an absolutely post-atomic status, one in which electrons are free from proton and/or neutron constraint and capable, in consequence, of being fired at any given material target at an incredibly high velocity, a much greater velocity than missiles or rockets, those materialist projectiles subject to the force of gravity, which would be like sitting-ducks to incoming laser beams. However, one should distinguish carefully between a proton absolute use of lasers and their electron absolute use, particularly in view of the post-atomic status of a Social Transcendentalist society, which must favour the latter, especially during its 'civilized' phase. While proton beams need not be banned during the preceding 'barbarous' phase, their employment during the higher phase of proletarian evolution would be both morally indefensible and ideologically incommensurable, so that one envisages electron beams alone being fired from satellites in accordance with a free-electron integrity. Probably electron beams would be employed on the ground during the preceding 'barbarous' phase as well, since - so I believe - more relevant to an incipiently absolute post-atomic society than proton beams, which have the ring of a pre-atomic integrity about them, though, admittedly, not on the low level of fire, that much cruder manifestation of proton negativity! Certainly there could be no more barbarous weapon than the flame-thrower, and we need not doubt that proletarian society will continue to uphold a ban on its use.

Third Speaker

"Modern classical music is inferior to both jazz-rock and modern jazz on account of the fact that it pertains to an earlier stage of petty-bourgeois development and accordingly employs techniques and instrumental combinations stemming from the bourgeoisie, i.e. from nineteenth-century classical music, which mainly took the form of romanticism. In its lower or barbarous phase, early petty-bourgeois music is either expressionist or impressionist in character, reflecting a partly atonal revolt against romantic precedent. In its higher or civilized phase, late petty-bourgeois music is either abstract expressionist or abstract impressionist in character, reflecting an atonal revolution commensurate with the growing entrenchment of petty-bourgeois civilization."

By contrast, late petty-bourgeois music signifies a break with traditional media of expression, such as acoustic violins and pianos, by employing electronic instruments in a variety of fresh combinations and in a partly or even largely improvisatory context, depending on the phase in question, that's to say, whether barbarous or civilized. In the lower phase, we get a revolt against civilized classical precedent in the form of either trad jazz or rock 'n' roll. In the higher phase, we get a revolutionary attainment via modern jazz or rock classical to a new degree of civilized music, one germane to the late petty-bourgeoisie. Whereas the barbarous and civilized phases of early petty-bourgeois music are equivalent to early- and mid-twentieth-century painterly art ... from expressionism to abstract expressionism, the barbarous and civilized phases of late petty-bourgeois music are equivalent to mid- and late-twentieth-century light art ... from sculptural to abstract light art.

Fourth Speaker

"Just as late petty-bourgeois music passed through two phases, so proletarian music must do the same, beginning as a largely tonal revolt against civilized late petty-bourgeois precedent, and culminating in an exclusively atonal attainment to revolutionary proletarian civilization - a progression, one might argue, from jazz-rock to pure jazz.

"The revolt or reaction, already well under way in certain Western countries in the late-twentieth century, employs electronic instruments, particularly synthesizers, in a largely tonal way and generally avoids rhythmic or harmonic accompaniments. It is not afraid of notation but quite often uses scores or some pre-planned directive, a fact which further confirms its barbarous status - the paradoxical use of a higher medium suggesting a 'fall', as regards content, from civilized precedent. A music equivalent to representational holography, that paradoxically barbarous reaction to abstract light art."

By contrast, civilized proletarian music, pertaining to people's civilization, will be exclusively atonal or, rather, 'pitchful' ... as we should describe an ultra-positive music dedicated to the maximum improvisatory equalitarianism of notes, all of which would be free from rhythmic or harmonic constraints and consequently moving in quick-note successions of free-electron 'runs'. Such pure music will be programmed for performance by synthesizers and serve as an inducement to self-realization, being associated with people's religion as an aspect of super-transcendentalism, inseparable from religion and therefore truly civilized - the ultimate religious music, corresponding to abstract holography.

Fifth Speaker

"Like art and music, the evolution of religion may be said to pass through phases relevant to a given class integrity ... from a barbarous revolt against some civilized alien-class precedent to the establishment, within a higher phase, of a new civilized level. In this fashion, we need not doubt that early Protestantism signified a late grand-bourgeois rebellion against early grand-bourgeois Roman Catholicism, the barbarous phase giving way, in due course, to the civilized ... with the entrenchment of Puritanism.

"Probably the bourgeoisie likewise revolted against early Protestantism before going on to establish what could be called middle Protestantism, Calvinist as opposed to Lutheran, as its civilized successor within the higher phase of bourgeois religion.

"Similarly one can argue that the early petty-bourgeoisie revolted, in their turn, against bourgeois religious precedent before going on to establish late Protestantism, whether Pentecostal or Unitarian, as the civilized religion relevant to themselves."

Of course, religion continued to be relativistic within the context of evolving relative civilization, a kind of spiritual religion co-existing with a material counterpart, though never more conspicuously so than during the extreme stages of relative evolution, as applying to the grand- and petty-bourgeois stages respectively. If Catholicism was predominantly a soulful religion, then Protestantism signified a shift towards the spiritual, a shift which could only lead to the predominantly spiritual with the development of higher/early petty-bourgeois Protestantism, though not to the same degree as with the introduction of civilized late petty-bourgeois religion in the form of neo-Buddhism, which extended the spiritual bias still further. Although relative in itself, not to mention vis-à-vis a materialist counterpart in the form of mescaline tripping, neo-Buddhism shifted the emphasis away from the physical exercises of Yoga towards the spiritual contemplation inherent in itself, and thereby affirmed a fresh civilized attainment, one more spiritually orientated than any previous civilized religion, though falling short of an absolute spiritual orientation both in terms of its physical connection with the ground - either directly, through a squatting posture, or indirectly, through the interposing medium of a chair - and, moreover, in terms of its acquiescence in and acceptance of positive feelings like happiness and love - an integrity, in short, not excluding affiliation with pseudo-soul, as derived from the majority neutron content of the old brain.

First Thinker

Late petty-bourgeois religion divides, then, into spiritual and material kinds, the one kind associated with neo-Buddhism, the other with mescaline tripping; the former predominantly appealing to the majority electron content of the new brain, the superconscious; the latter, by contrast, predominantly appealing to the minority proton/neutron content of the new brain, the quasi-superconscious. These two kinds of 'contemporary' civilized religion signify the higher phase of late petty-bourgeois civilization, the lower, or barbarous, phase having given rise to a Yoga reaction against neo-Catholicism on the one hand, and to a doping reaction against late Protestantism on the other, the reaction of a spiritual barbarism generally being against a materialistic civilized religion and, conversely, that of a materialistic barbarism generally being against a spiritual civilized religion - a procedure generally paralleled by the arts.

"Of course, the development of a proletarian religion can also be seen to divide into two phases, viz. a barbarous and a civilized, and we find in the former case a revolt against neo-Buddhism which takes the form of LSD tripping, a relatively barbarous mode of religious allegiance involving the contemplation of the visionary contents of the minority proton/neutron content of the new brain by a majority electron content functioning as awareness. Such indirect, 'representational' meditation parallels the development of representational holography.

"Certainly, a reaction against late petty-bourgeois religion and art is not something that a Social Transcendentalist Eire need over-concern itself with, since its principal obligation, once the cobwebs of tradition had been cleared away, would be to prepare the ground for Super-transcendentalism in the name of people's civilization, a procedure necessarily placing emphasis on the introduction of meditation centres, where transcendental meditation or, rather, hypermeditation ... would be carried on both free from the ground, i.e. in a vertical position entailing recourse to special chest-to-crotch harnesses, and in a psychic context free from feelings, including positive ones, and so exclusively concerned with the cultivation of awareness, as applying to the majority electron content of the new brain.

"If the barbarous phase of proletarian religion mainly pertains to the United States, where LSD tripping is quite widespread, then its civilized phase should ultimately pertain to Eire, which, while not immune to the barbarous, would be primarily dedicated to furthering the civilized."

Second Thinker

In passing from a post-humanist millennium to a post-human millennium, from the superhuman and superbeingful phases of the one to the superman and superbeing phases of the other, we find ourselves concerned with post-human life forms, not with post-humanist life but with life forms which completely transcend man, being as different from that two-legged creature as apes and trees, the two life forms immediately preceding, in some sort of chronological order, his emergence. Just as trees precede apes and apes precede man, so the supermen will succeed him and the superbeings succeed them. As human brains artificially supported and sustained in collectivized contexts the supermen - those antithetical equivalents to apes - will trip on a regular basis, experiencing such artificially-induced visions as LSD, or some such synthetic stimulus, makes possible. As new-brain collectivizations the superbeings - those antithetical equivalents to trees - will hypermeditate towards transcendence - the goal of late-millennial striving.

"Speaking personally, I prefer to distinguish between the twin phases of the coming post-humanist and post-human millennia on the basis of a quasi-spiritual phase from an ultra-spiritual phase, as befitting the distinct psychic preoccupations of the respective post-humanist and post-human life forms - the superhuman men/supermen and the superbeingful men/superbeings respectively.

"Whereas the former pair would be contemplating the visionary contents of the new brain's minority proton/neutron content from a consciousness not unconnected with feelings, the latter pair would be solely attuned to self-contemplation as superconsciousness of the new brain's majority electron content, being free from old-brain connections and consequently enabled to expand consciousness towards transcendence.

"Whereas trees directly stem from the Diabolic Alpha, their leaves enslaved both to branches and trunk, the superbeings would directly aspire towards the Divine Omega, the collectivized new-brains served by the artificial support-and-sustain systems which had been engineered by qualified technicians."

Third Thinker

Obviously the support-and-sustain systems of the supermen and the superbeings, respectively, would be created in such a way as to appear antithetical to the trunk and branches of a tree. Whereas the trunk stems from the ground and then the branches tend diagonally from it, creating the impression of a concession to gravitational force downwards, a tapering down towards the trunk, one envisages the main support apparatus of a superbeing (not to mention the preceding supermen) pending from the roof of a meditation centre, its length stopping well short of the floor, whilst a series of diagonally-slanting arms (reminiscent of branches) tend from it in seeming defiance of gravitational force downwards, those arms directly issuing from the main support slanting gently downwards, those indirectly issuing from the main support, i.e. stemming from the main branch-arms, slanting radically downwards, the resultant impression quite the reverse of anything which could be described as directly stemming from the Diabolic Alpha. In short, an appropriate arrangement for a life form directly aspiring towards the Divine Omega.

"Speaking personally, I incline to regard the superman and superbeing phases of the post-human millennium as equivalent to the barbarous and civilized phases of preceding post-humanist millennial evolution, though as a more intense, because absolute, barbarism and civilization respectively. After the supermen have had their fill of tripping, the technocratic servants of this post-human life form will doubtless approve their upgrading to the superbeing stage, and thus take measures to free the new brain from its physiological connection with the old one. The resulting life form will consequently be beyond sleep and therefore disposed to hypermeditate on a permanent basis, a procedure bringing life closer to the absolutism of the pure spirit of heavenly transcendence.

"From indirectly cultivating awareness through the contemplation of new-brain visions, life will have progressed, in superbeing guise, to directly cultivating awareness through self-contemplation, this absolutism significant of the highest degree of civilized religion, an absolutism inexorably leading to transcendence, and thus to the escape of free electrons from new-brain matter, their escape, or definitive salvation, being facilitated along the hollow interior of the support apparatus, which should lead via the main trunk-like support into the deeps of space, in which setting pure spirit would be free to converge towards and expand into other such transcendences on route, as it were, to ultimate unity, as the envisaged goal of heavenly evolution.

Fourth Thinker

The evolution of literature from the early to the late petty bourgeoisie is, in effect, from novels to poetry, from a genre-type corresponding to painterly art to one which corresponds to light art. As with music and art, each stage of petty-bourgeois literary evolution passes through two phases, viz. a barbarous and a civilized, which entails a revolt against civilized literary precedent during its lower phase and, by contrast, the attainment to a fresh level of civilized literary achievement during its higher phase. As the early petty bourgeoisie commenced their stage of literary evolution with a revolt against bourgeois fictional precedent, it follows that the late petty bourgeoisie will commence their stage of literary evolution with a revolt against higher/early petty-bourgeois precedent.

"Inevitably, the early petty-bourgeois revolt against bourgeois fiction, corresponding to expressionism and impressionism in art, takes the form of autobiographical and/or realistic novels, the former concentrating on the individual's background and experiences, the latter on the everyday world of societal phenomena; the one subjective, the other objective.

"Both modes of writing are relatively barbarous because entailing a paradoxical commitment to the novel genre, neither autobiography nor realism corresponding to a strictly literary approach to the novel. They're not complete in themselves but seem transitional between bourgeois fiction and higher/early petty-bourgeois literature, which takes the form of either experimental, largely non-expressive novels or illusional novels, such as involve completely imaginary worlds and creatures.

"Both these higher modes of early petty-bourgeois writing, corresponding to abstract expressionism and to abstract impressionism in art, are civilized, because complete in themselves and transcending not only traditional modes of novelistic literature ... but the everyday world of societal phenomena. With experimental and illusional literature the novel attains to a climax, beyond which literary progress can only be made in terms of late petty-bourgeois poetry."

Fifth Thinker

The revolt of lower/late petty-bourgeois poets against civilized literary precedent takes the form of either revolutionary political writing or writings on the occult, depending on the kind of poet in question and whether he is in revolt against what has been called illusional literature or its experimental counterpart. Naturally, this revolt signifies a barbarism because, apart from using poetry in an unpoetical way, the content of the poem created falls beneath the level of content attained to by civilized novelistic precedent - political poetry being conceptually inferior to illusional literature, occult poetry likewise conceptually inferior to experimental literature, the revolt of a materialistic barbarism against spiritual civilized precedent paralleling that of a spiritual barbarism against materialistic civilized precedent. With the development of a higher/late petty-bourgeois poetry, however, literature is surpassed by the attainment of poetry to a new civilized achievement, one that is either experimental, and therefore largely abstract, or metaphysical, and therefore primarily concerned with spiritual truth, particularly as applying to neo-Buddhism. Whereas experimental poetry corresponds to abstract-expressionist light art, metaphysical poetry corresponds to light art of an abstract-impressionist tendency, an expansion of the spiritual rather than a contraction of the material. But no sooner does late petty-bourgeois literature attain to a climax in the above-mentioned kinds of poetry ... than a proletarian revolt against such civilized precedent sets in, to signal the commencement of a new class-stage of literary evolution - namely the ultimate stage.

"Inevitably, the early proletarian revolt against late petty-bourgeois poetry, corresponding to representational holography in art, takes the form of expressive anthological formats, anthologies of new or unknown poets being the genre relevant to a proletarian stage of literary evolution because collectivized and, therefore, absolute in constitution, signifying a convergence to omega on the level of poetry, the Many having become One, so to speak, in a format which transcends individual and/or separate publications.

"But, of course, such anthological poetry as is published in this context generally signifies a conceptual 'fall' from the experimental or metaphysical content of late petty-bourgeois poetry, being largely romantic or autobiographical or realistic or otherwise expressive in a way which falls beneath civilized precedent.

"Such barbarous poetry is equivalent, consciously or unconsciously, to a revolt against late petty-bourgeois poetry, the lower phase in the evolution of proletarian writing from negative beginnings to a positive ending, such as would apply to a people's civilization, properly so-considered, in which only the most civilized kind of poetry would be encouraged, poetry which was neither experimental nor metaphysical, but totally abstract in character.

"Yes, it is towards a completely impressive, free-electron status that proletarian poetry will tend, as literature attains to its ultimate climax within the context of abstract superpoems - the literary counterpart to abstract holography. Thus will higher proletarian literature be born, an abstract literature testifying, in its computer-disc presentation, to the transcendent nature of proletarian civilization. If literature began in alpha philosophy, it is most certainly destined to culminate in omega poetry - the ultimate civilized achievement and attainment of the goal.