[kj] Melody Maker : Jaz in "Shrink Rap" 16th March 1985

[fluw]

<<Might be on to something, apart from the fact that mutations are almost
invariably negative, provided you could get past the radiation sickness.
The radiation causes your cells to die, and consequences of their death is
toxic to the other, living cells>>

but that is assuming that mutation will transfer to another mostly organic
form.

it could be that mutating will not include 'you' inhabiting any organic
carbon.
meaning your thoughts, memories, and motivations could move to a dominion of
electrical waves, flirting about through circuitry for example.

although in a relative sense, this is already the case because - the waves
or patterns of you, are currently restricted to a signal/frequency. these
frequencies require similar  frequencies to inhabit organic forms in order
to recognize the similar patterns/signals/frequencies of 'you' which are
inhabiting an organic form as well. but when your "body" no longer can
retain your energy pattern, that pattern is released into the pool of energy
that encompasses all.

so whether or not 'human' frequencies in the 3rd dimension do experience
their manifestations in organic vehicles, mechanic vehicles, or something
else, it will not matter (pun intended). 'we' will still have need to
navigate, experience, react, destroy, create and so forth.

the frequencies' aesthetic is inconsequential to the inevitability of
'experience' in general.







----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Kolmar" <mark@burningrome.com>
To: <gathering@misera.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 4:12 PM
Subject: Re: [kj] Melody Maker : Jaz in "Shrink Rap" 16th March 1985


> I'm about 18 years late and responding to the wrong people, but here you
> go:  (in full psycho-babble rant mode... discuss)
>
> Jaz wrote:
>
> > CND
> > The admittance of failure. A refusal to accept progress. A refusal to
> > acknowledge supernature. A refusal to accept radiation as the next step
of
> > nature and mutant as the next step of humanity. Anti-progressist.
>
> Might be on to something, apart from the fact that mutations are almost
> invariably negative, provided you could get past the radiation sickness.
> The radiation causes your cells to die, and consequences of their death is
> toxic to the other, living cells.
>
> Is genetic engineering nature's next step, that grows out of humanity's
> built-in desire to control the surroundings?  Or do you reject these ideas
> as Franken-food and "playing God"?
>
> > MELODY
> > Pure melody in contrast to dissonance. I despise avant garde music for
it's
> > rejection of melody. Pure melody can be enhanced through contrasts of
> > discordancy. In my classical music I'm always searching for the purest
> > melody of all. One has to go through insanity to find pure melody.
>
> Now the so-called "avant garde" music employs something analogous to
> radiation above -- at least we can consider it as a metaphor.  The
> resulting mutation, as it were, is purely psychological and aesthetic.
> Appreciation of chance and chaos is desirable progress.  It is acceptance
> of nature's methods and their function in art.
>
> The use of computers brings dominion over an environment of our own
> design.  Invocation of a deus ex machina then brings the potential for
> pure human expression that reflects humanity and our relationship with the
> environment.  In other words, the glitch is also pure melody.
>
> Acceptance of discord does not, however, supercede a more traditional
> notion of melody.  As an example, comparison and contrast of Beethoven's
> 6th Symphony and Xenakis' "La Legende d'Eer" brings a more complete
> understanding of both.  Contrast is effective across the totality of
> experiences, not only within boundaries of a single "piece" or "work" of
> art.
>
> > MORALS
> > Redefinition of present day morals is essential. Morals are opposed to
the
> > laws of nature and that is perversion. Man not understanding sex
instinct
> > equals war. Morals must be broken. I say screw your best friend's girl
to
> > see what happens.
>
> Screwing your best friend's girl *is* war.
>
> Redefinition of present day morals is essential precisely because they
> need to be re-synchronized with the present circumstances of our
> relationship with nature.  Circumstances change dramatically over
> thousands of years, yet some factors are inflexible generation to
> generation -- not eternal, but subject to change only over a longer period
> of time.
>
> For example, effective birth control means the sex instinct has been
> partially de-coupled from reproduction.  That is a fundamental but not
> complete change.  Sex has been separated from disease only to a lesser
> degree.  And to say nothing about sex as it relates to our uniquely human
> emotions and higher aspirations.  If the sex instinct is separated from
> loyalty, protection, honor, and so on, then it makes us less civilized,
> and presents a type of misunderstanding that also equals war.
>
> In war we are brought together into close relationships based on practical
> need based on circumstances.  Those relationships are genuine, but they do
> not endure beyond the circumstances that created them.  So-called romantic
> relationships can be that way too.  That's been my experience and
> observation, anyway.
>
> Sex is a powerful force to foster enduring, productive partnerships.
> That is only one potential, but it is an important one.  Rejection of
> traditional sexual morality has brought about a situation in which
> enduring partnership as a fundamental aspect of human sexuality has been
> degraded.  I see that in my own relationships and in others'.  We reject
> the traditional morality because it does not match our circumstances.
> Yet we are poorer for the rejection of other terms that still apply.  We
> are pack animals.  We have an innate desire to pair off.  I can see that
> people yearn for those things -- so ultimately the morality will come back
> around in a different form that is in sync with nature.  I think that is
> the larger question, above the search we make as individuals these days of
> "What am I looking for?"
>
> --Mark
>
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