{"id":20128,"date":"2014-03-15T11:28:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T17:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=20128"},"modified":"2014-03-15T11:28:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T17:28:43","slug":"poetic-terrorism-communique-4-the-end-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=20128","title":{"rendered":"Poetic Terrorism: Communique #4: The End of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Communique #4: The End of the World<\/strong><\/p>\n

The A.O.A. declares itself officially bored with the End of the World. The canonical version has been used since 1945 to keep us cowering in fear of Mutual Assured Destruction & in snivelling servitude to our super-hero politicians (the only ones capable of handling deadly Green Kryptonite)…<\/p>\n

What does it mean that we have invented a way to destroy all life on Earth? Nothing much. We have dreamed this as an escape from the contemplation of our own individual deaths. We have made an emblem to serve as the mirror-image of a discarded immortality. Like demented dictators we swoon at the thought of taking it all down with us into the Abyss.<\/p>\n

The unofficial version of the Apocalypse involves a lascivious yearning for the End, & for a post-Holocaust Eden where the Survivalists (or the 144,000 Elect of Revelations) can indulge themselves in orgies of Dualist hysteria, endless final confrontations with a seductive evil…<\/p>\n

We have seen the ghost of Rene Guenon, cadaverous & topped with a fez (like Boris Karloff as Ardis Bey in The Mummy) leading a funereal No Wave Industrial-Noise rock band in loud buzzing blackfly-chants for the death of Culture & Cosmos: the elitist fetishism of pathetic nihilists, the Gnostic self-disgust of \u201cpost-sexual\u201d intellectoids.<\/p>\n

Are these dreary ballads not simply mirror-images of all those lies & platitudes about Progress & the Future, beamed from every loudspeaker, zapped like paranoid brain-waves from every schoolbook & TV in the world of the Consensus? The thanatosis of the Hip Millenarians extrudes itself like pus from the false health of the Consumers\u2019 & Workers\u2019 Paradises.<\/p>\n

Anyone who can read history with both hemispheres of the brain knows that a world comes to an end every instant \u2014 the waves of time leave washed up behind themselves only dry memories of a closed & petrified past \u2014 imperfect memory, itself already dying & autumnal. And every instant also gives birth to a world \u2014 despite the cavillings of philosophers & scientists whose bodies have grown numb \u2014 a present in which all impossibilities are renewed, where regret & premonition fade to nothing in one presential hologrammatical psychomantric gesture.<\/p>\n

The \u201cnormative\u201d past or the future heat-death of the universe mean as little to us as last year\u2019s GNP or the withering away of the State. All Ideal pasts, all futures which have not yet come to pass, simply obstruct our consciousness of total vivid presence.<\/p>\n

Certain sects believe that the world (or \u201ca\u201d world) has already come to an end. For Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses it happened in 1914 (yes folks, we are living in the Book of Revelations now). For certain oriental occultists, it occurred during the Major Conjunction of the Planets in 1962. Joachim of Fiore proclaimed the Third Age, that of the Holy Spirit, which replaced those of Father & Son. Hassan II of Alamut proclaimed the Great Resurrection, the immanentization of the eschaton, paradise on earth. Profane time came to an end somewhere in the late Middle Ages. Since then we\u2019ve been living angelic time \u2014 only most of us don\u2019t know it.<\/p>\n

Or to take an even more Radical Monist stance: Time never started at all. Chaos never died. The Empire was never founded. We are not now & never have been slaves to the past or hostages to the future.<\/p>\n

We suggest that the End of the World be declared a fait accompli; the exact date is unimportant. The ranters in 1650 knew that the Millenium comes now into each soul that wakes to itself, to its own centrality & divinity. \u201cRejoice, fellow creature,\u201d was their greeting. \u201cAll is ours!\u201d<\/p>\n

I want no part of any other End of the World. A boy smiles at me in the street. A black crow sits in a pink magnolia tree, cawing as orgone accumulates & discharges in a split second over the city…summer begins. I may be your lover…but I spit on your Millenium. …source<\/a><\/p>\n

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