Monstrosity vs. cleaner butterfly wings

[priamus at hotnet.com.au]

Hi Charles,

Would you please cease & desist posting what appears to me to be
philosophical writings to this Group. They are not Lepidoptera related
and are accordingly Off-Topic. I invite you to post them to the
appropriate newsgroup (whatever that may be).

Thank You.
 
Chris Hocking
Papillon Entomology . . . . . . . . . . Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Charles Gavette wrote:
> 
>   Prayer to whom or what? The thread of experimental geometry was cut while
> Archimedes 'meditated' in the sand....god is also a noise in the street. To
> this I oppose (at the very least) something like Paracelsus' Anti-trinity of
> Drives. It is an alchemy that makes one hell of a lot more sense than
> falling into line with something like chrisitanity, whose sanctions have
> degraded human thought since the first millenium onward. It was and is the
> alchemists who have answered the call. It also answers the physicists'
> conundrum of the three quarks: up, down, and strange.
> 
>   Mark, you came very close in the allusion to fruit-of-the-loom underwear.
> It comes dangerously close to the use of that favorite neolithic priestly
> invention , resentment. I thank the cosmos for 23 years of non-wedded
> heterosexual bliss, and at the same time, while not having gotten myself
> caught within the other trap of a homoerotic frenzy, I am quite capable of
> seeing how resentment works.
> 
>   More interestingly, with the fossil fuel model we have the vision of
> perversity gone subversive. If it is true that perversity is an event of
> surfaces (the massage, driving a car), then all of this scurrying across the
> surface of the planet was at the beginning, only children experimenting with
> new toys. But it turns itself into subeversion, when the toys become a
> necessity of life and begin to kill what it was supposed to support.
> Whacked. Fossil fuel has feminized the earth, made it softer, more
> accesible, to the point where we feel threatened to even let the thought of
> taking the bus cross our mind. But there's something nice about getting on
> the bus and knowing things that others don't. A psychic swamp, populated by
> the integration of machines that further feminize. Crouched like a frog,
> ego-tripping in my new shiny fossil-fuel burner, "I am sure that I can
> conquer this beast." See the cartoon in an early Mother Earth News: The girl
> is setting in traffic with her new low. sleek and racy car, while we see in
> the distance the city that she must get to to help make the paynments on it.
> The billboard along this road has an advertisement for the same car that she
> is driving, the caption reads..."Are You Man Enough?" This overcoding
> towards femininity, this slouch toward Gomorrah, is opposed to the masculine
> that husbands the earth, the intergration of anima/animus in both genders.
> 
>   Fossil-fuel consumption also has its negative masculine, its patriarchal
> side that creates deserts by thinking that it is subduing nature. And the
> sad fact is that it is succeeding, paradoxically by feminizing the masculine
> nature in man, killing creativity and the very environment that supports all
> of us.
> 
>    "America is feminized. It is a maniac without balls." (Henry Miller,
> Tropic of Cancer)
> 
> 
> 
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