CYCLE SIXTY

1. One should be careful not to confound salvation of the World with salvation from the World. For the former, which is Catholic, is through art, whereas the latter, which is transcendentalist, is through air.

2. To distinguish the extreme left-wing nature, relative to the World, of television from the extreme right-wing nature of computers. One could say that the more partial one is to computing, the less time, and indeed inclination, will one have for television, and vice versa.

3. Likewise, to distinguish the left-wing nature, relative to the World, of radios and/or midis from the right-wing nature of video-recorders. The more partial one is to radio and/or midi, the less time, and indeed inclination, will one have for video-recorders, and vice versa.

4. The Devil (solar) of television contrasts horizontally, as heart to lungs, with the God (stellar) of computers, while the man (lunar) of video-recorders contrasts vertically, as brain to body, with the woman (planar) of radio. At any rate, within the electronic, and therefore realistic, context of the World.

5. There is a 'Nazi' suggestion of lunar-to-solar degeneration about televideos, which combine right-wing and extreme left-wing parallels in a single format.

6. Just as television and video-recorders, when 'true' to their nature, are objective media of perceptual orientation, so, likewise, radio and computers are subjective media of conceptual orientation - the former pair relative to the light (both outer and inner), but the latter pair relative to the spirit (both outer and inner). The tendency to use or identify computers with games is a quasi-perceptual mode of 'subjectivity' closer, in nature, to the alpha of spirituality than to its omega, and therefore effectively contrary, so I contend, to the essence of computers as conceptual media for the storage and transmission of data.

7. It could be that an exact parallel exists between football, both rugby and association/Gaelic, and the above-mentioned worldly media of information transmission, insofar as football is worldly to the extent of being played on grass. Hence to distinguish the extreme left-wing nature, relative to the World, of Rugby Union (television) from the extreme right-wing nature ... of Gaelic Football (computers) on the one hand, but the left-wing nature of Association Football (radio) from the right-wing nature of Rugby League (video-recorders) on the other hand. Both types of rugby, scorning nets, are objective games, whereas both types of football, utilizing nets, are subjective. The objectivity of the light (both outer and inner) vis-à-vis the subjectivity of the spirit (both outer and inner).