CYCLE FORTY-SEVEN

1. Books, like magazines, are rectilinear and therefore 'square', whereas discs, like tapes, are curvilinear and therefore 'hip' or, which amounts to the same thing, round. The writer of books is effectively a 'square', or 'straight', who acquiesces in the objective aspect of things - as, of course, does the reader of books, albeit from a more passive standpoint. By contrast, the writer or, rather, speaker of (audio) tapes ... is a 'hipster', or 'freak', who acquiesces in the subjective aspect of things - as, of course, does the listener to tapes. But beyond the speaker of tapes is the thoughtful keyer-in of (computer) discs, who is a 'superhipster', or 'superfreak', acquiescing in the super-subjective (the noumenally as opposed to phenomenally subjective) aspect of things, etc.

2. Books, magazines, cinema films, etc. should not survive the Last Judgement which the Second Coming will bring in setting up the 'Kingdom of Heaven' on Earth; for such 'square' things can only be incompatible with the curvilinear and subjective requirements of the Social Transcendentalist Centre. Tapes (both audio and video) will be carefully analysed in regard to Social Transcendentalist criteria, and only that which is deemed morally acceptable should make it through to the computerized and/or laser-disc Beyond. That which is not a tape would be 'beneath the pale', so to speak, of consideration for cultural salvation, since objectively ranged against the World in rectilinear aloofness and/or opposition to it. Hence the great majority of books, magazines, films, etc. would be destined for destruction, come the crunch of Judgement. For the effective equivalence of the Second Coming does not damn books the way they are relatively damned by photography and/or magazines, and absolutely damned by transcription to film. The idealistic society of the 'Heavenly Kingdom' is beyond worldly realism (and hence tapes of one kind or another) and will endeavour to save such realism as is deemed acceptable to its own idealism, while simultaneously expanding the domain of heavenly idealism as such. But that which is materialistic (like books/magazines) and naturalistic (like films) cannot be saved, but only judged from the standpoint of the Holy Spirit. Such Divine Judgement is less a damnation than a rejection ... of the media in question, which will accordingly find no place in the 'Kingdom of Heaven'. Their exclusion will follow as a matter of moral necessity.

3. Damnation preserves objectivity, whereas salvation, in saving worldly subjectivity to the divine Beyond, rejects it in the name of the Holy Spirit and all that is sacred. Hence there can no more be a salvation of objectivity than ... a damnation of subjectivity. That which is not already subjective, and round, by the coming of Judgement ... cannot be saved. Nor, logically, can it be damned. It can only be rejected ... as unfit for the 'Heavenly Kingdom'.