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Posted by Sam Hall on 2018-June-1 15:13:05, Friday
In reply to Analysing the ineffable posted by slvrspun on 2018-June-1 12:03:38, Friday

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide was a brilliantly inventive comedy. He's one of the very few comedians to follow Monty Python with a unique style of his own, rather than just a try-hard copy, something which still goes on today (eg Shaun Micallef).

I wonder what Adams would have made of today's radical atheist movement led by Richard Dawkins... I'd like to think he would have pilloried it, as it so richly deserves. Dawkins Selfish Gene had a big impact on my own atheism -- a brilliant book which in some ways is companion to Hitchhiker's Guide -- but his recent move to make atheism a zealous cult only shows Dawkins' personal inability to construct a meaningful pagan alternative to the crumbling Judeo-Christian belief system. In the West at the moment, Christianity is kaput -- hacking away at the corpse on the cross is only going to spark a reactionary resurrection, not create something new. Let it alone, already.

My mind often turns to the very nature of what makes people attractive to one another, sometimes mutually, sometimes massively one-sided

One of the best places to look for an answer is in the writings of Camille Paglia - particularly when it comes to The Beautiful Boy. Androgyny is an important part, an element of socio-biological magic that gives us everything from transgender shamanism to Judy Garland goddess cults to the Beautiful Boy as the supreme dream of transcendence. As Paglia says, cathexis, the investment of libido in things and people, is a subject we've hardly begun to investigate.

Personally, I am always trying to expand my range of attributes that I will find desirable in other people

Amen to that! It's why I've always been a little obsessed with trying to revivify the ancient model of bisexual responsiveness - to use that old pot of pagan spunk to conceive a sex and gender renaissance. Creative originality comes from deep communion with the past, as in the Italian Renaissance, as in Paglia's mind-blowing Sexual Personae, not from trying to deconstruct and secede from it, which will always twist its shallow self into sterile authoritarianism.


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There once was a State with a sock,
Into which it archived a boy's cock.
First they soaked it in brine,
Then tied it up with red twine;
Now it's with the lint in Nanny's old smock.


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