ON SEX
1. Autocratic lesbianism,
democratic heterosexuality and/or homosexuality, theocratic pornography. Heterosexual sex is to the democratic
compromise between proton and electron equivalents. viz.
workers and bourgeoisie, what homosexuality is to its socialist successor, that
is to say, the logical sexual concomitant of an atomic civilization. If heterosexual sex corresponds to a proton/electron relativity between women and men, then
homosexual sex corresponds to an electron-electron attraction between men. However, there is still a relativity of sorts
involved with the latter, and therefore an extension of humanism towards an
absolute integrity. Thus homosexuality
is more suited to a social democracy than to a parliamentary one, and we need
not doubt that many Socialists, or would-be Socialists, are essentially
homosexual. This is not to say, however,
that all those who consider themselves socialist are really what they claim to
be! A strong bias for pornography would
indicate a fascistic temperament and ideological suitability for theocracy, a
strong bias for heterosexual relations ... a democratic or bourgeois integrity.
2. Now let us turn to the two extremes - those
corresponding to the autocratic and the theocratic respectively. If lesbianism was the autocratic norm, then
it was on account of the stemming from proton absolutism of the early (pagan)
civilizations, their subatomic constitution favouring, in sexual as in most
other matters, something equivalent to a proton-proton reaction. But lesbianism was not the sole sexuality,
nor even the most important one where some ancient peoples were concerned; for
there also existed, at least with the ancient Greeks and Indians, a taste for
erotic sculpture, which undoubtedly played a significant role in relieving
sexual tensions! We may say that nude
sculpture was to them what pornography is to us or, at any rate, to those of us
with a theocratic bias. Thus an
antithesis may be inferred to exist between latter-day pornography and erotic
sculpture.
3. However, if autocratic sexual indulgence
implied a radical concession to materialism, to the sub-organic as well as to a
pre-atomic proton absolutism in the form of lesbianism, the latter a later and
more 'democratic' development than the former (corresponding to the
progression, in modern times, from heterosexuality to homosexuality), then we
need not doubt that theocratic sexual indulgence implies a radical concession
to idealism, to the supra-organic, which manifests itself in various forms and
degrees of pornography.
4. Pornography, then, is the theocratic sex of
the age, somewhat beyond the sculptural connection, in medieval iconography, of
the Blessed Virgin or of her elevation onto stained-glass and canvas, an
intellectualized, spiritualized compromise existing between lovers in the
flesh, whether lesbian, heterosexual, or homosexual. I have described it as fascistic, but that
would apply to adult pornography, particularly of a hard-core nature, whereas
its evolution to a proletarian level presupposes the use, through computers
rather than magazines, of juveniles in an ultimate pornography only appropriate
to a Social Transcendentalist age and society, in which a more attenuated
sexuality, focusing on mature (16-19) teenagers, was the morally desirable
alternative to properly adult levels of sex.
No doubt, earlier levels of pornography, together with the three kinds
of fleshy sex, would be taboo in an absolutely theocratic society. Propagation would increasingly become an
artificial affair, invoking Centrist regulation and supervision. Sperm banks and artificial insemination would
gradually supersede natural sexual activity as the appropriate method of
reproduction for an advanced civilization.
Couples, whether married or otherwise, would become a thing of the past,
a reflection of atomic compromise, and this no less the case with regard to
homosexuals than to their heterosexual counterparts.
5. Regarding lesbianism again, my conception of
a lesbian age, as germane to an autocratic society, isn't one - necessarily
oversimplified - which posits lesbian relations solely between females but, on
the contrary, one that regards all relations,
whether between men and women or men and men, as fundamentally lesbian on
account of the pre-atomic integrity of pagan society and, as a corollary of
this, the reactive nature of sexual relationships. In short, women would have been too reactive,
by and large, to contemplate or indulge in regular sex with their own
kind. The ability of women to have attractive
sex with one another comes later, at that point in time when women undergo masculinization to a degree whereby any such seemingly
lesbian relations partake of a quasi-homosexual character. Exceptions to this rule there may have been,
but I am quite convinced that women would not have gone in for strictly lesbian
sex with each other in pagan times!
6. Concerning musical instruments, there
exists, as in other contexts, a distinction between the autocratic, the
democratic, and the theocratic. Broadly,
instruments falling within the first category include percussion, wind, and
brass; instruments within the second category include strings, keyboards, and
guitars; while those within the third category include harps, organs, and
synthesizers. Again, to generalize, we
may hold that 'autocratic' instruments are played horizontally and naturally,
i.e. with naked contact of fingers; that 'democratic' instruments are played
horizontally and artificially, i.e. with bow, plectrum, etc; while 'theocratic'
instruments are played vertically and artificially. There is about the 'democratic' instruments a
kind of dualistic compromise between the horizontal and the vertical, the
natural and the artificial, as befits their bourgeois status.
7. If acoustic upright pianos correspond to a
liberal democratic integrity, then electric pianos signify a progression along
that same democratic spectrum to an integrity corresponding to social
democracy, and may accordingly be regarded as socialistic, in conjunction with
electric guitars. By contrast, the
distinction between an acoustic organ and an electric organ would correspond to
the theological distinction (on the schismatic theocratic spectrum) between
Protestantism and Communism, whereas the truly theocratic instruments,
corresponding to the catholic and fascist parts of the main theocratic
spectrum, would be further apart from each other because flanking the 'false'
theocratic instruments, and therefore more akin to the distinction between a
harp or, alternatively, harpsichord and a synthesizer. Has not the harp long symbolized
8. However that may be, we are advancing
towards an age when the harp should be supplanted by a more advanced
'theocratic' instrument, if not exactly a Moog synthesizer these days ... then
one of its more sophisticated and autonomous successors in the form of a
synthesizer appropriate to a Social Transcendentalist age. Needless to say, all 'democratic' and 'autocratic'
instruments would then become taboo!
9. Referring to the autocratic, it seems
feasible to contend that the popularity of the saxophone in the present century
owes not a little to its vertical handling, since possessing a kind of
quasi-theocratic integrity as an instrument equivalent to a military
dictatorship, being on the tail-end, as it were, of the autocratic spectrum,
and thus the logical successor to more horizontal types of brass (trumpet) and
wind (flute) instruments. But not,
definitely not, electronic!
10. A decidedly important factor with regard to
Social Transcendentalism that will distinguish it, during both its phases, from
petty-bourgeois LSD-tripping and/or transcendental meditation, will be its
dependence, for practical realization, on specially-constructed chest-to-crotch
harnesses suspended from an overhead scaffold-like apparatus within any given
Meditation Centre, so that its practitioners are lifted free of the ground and
enabled to trip or meditate, as the case may be, in a vertical posture - free,
to all appearances, of their bodies.
11. In such fashion, the body will be immobilized
and thus rendered incapable of disturbing or dominating the mind, a
particularly important consideration where LSD tripping is concerned, in that
people would not be able to walk about or otherwise make physical nuisances of
themselves. A tripper trussed-up in one
of these harnesses would be unable to leave the Meditation Centre during the
duration of his trip, and so his psychic experiences would be strictly confined
to the Centre in question, where qualified personnel would ensure his mental
and/or physical wellbeing.
12.
Of course, I do not wish to stress the negative
advantages of this procedure at the expense of the positive ones, which should
always remain paramount - namely, that the individual practitioners of the true
religion will be in the best possible physical position to cultivate spirit by
dint of being in an absolutely vertical posture some feet above the ground, a
posture as levitation-like as its psychological concomitance is transcendental.
