The God of the Machine will come Down to Save Us:
Deus X-President QAnon-achina: The whole QAnon phenomenon was bizarre because at the heart of it was more about unhealthy utilitarian mysticism and hero-worship. Trump, was essentially held up as a heroic saviour for right-extremists, as well as a political mouthpiece for the conservative groups. We can see the shadow side of romanticism and rationale methodology running amuck.
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The God of the Machine will come Down to Save Us:
A God of the Galaxy or a Magician: In the last post, we discussed artist-prophets’ spiritual seekers of imagination and light. And that these people are only but a few [an elite privilege]. We also touched upon the antithetical relationship between those who have imagination and those that do not. And those that do not have it can be equated to Schopenhauer’s ‘rock’, – the rock acts as its other who is related or fastened to them. Often are regulated to a managerial big bad. Although some are related to them out of necessity, and though they might not be prophetic, they are skilled in their own right. Kirby’s prophetic insights would have been too perplexing if it weren’t for Stan Lee [comic book writer], someone who fully realised or cohered to Kirby’s stories to make sense for public consumption.
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