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Re: On Libera

Posted by sinusoidal on 2023-January-3 21:58:16, Tuesday
In reply to On Libera posted by Sick Rose on 2023-January-3 21:02:37, Tuesday

I almost don't think Sick Rose goes far enough re Libera and Boys Air Choir and their like.

For those enthralled by these groups, do you have any idea what a sacred tradition is? Or are you like (forgive me – this is just one modality of Jews’ interface with the greater West) a Jewish Hollywood mogul who, eyes glinting like gold, dismembers the bluebird, the better to sell soaring wing, twinkling eye, warbling song, each to highest bidder? Who bleeds each part of meaning by the quickest cut to the jugular to render bluebird, ritually slaughtered, in short order a heaping carcass of cheap cliché, meme, schmaltz.

Do you think that a tradition like this (very short!)

https://youtu.be/vot6izLC8Oo

cannot but continually keen its blade on adamantine dead seriousness? Can be sustained if the training has time-outs for mugging for cameras, trading high fives, interspersing gangsta raps, or shaking hips in tights for swooning girls?

The West’s choral tradition unaccountably sustained that seriousness until almost now. Just listen to the BBC broadcasts of evensong from the 1950s to the 1980s. I mean, just listen to the announcers’ *introductions*.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSwj1MvXPAE

Can you imagine how insufferable kittens and puppies would be if they primped in the mirror and realized their hold on us? We adore them because they don't know and couldn’t possibly articulate what their being manifests. Girls eat of that apple first but still have their devotees. Certain other forms of grace and beauty, however, combust into a pile of smoking ash as soon as those perpendicular wires of *being* and *knowing* short out.

Do you get what a culture is, what it requires? Care, ardor, faith must live at its heart if there are to be love songs and limericks and nursery rhymes held within its force-field.

If you don't get it, you might ask yourself if caring about boys in your own case has any purpose.

Ok, I can derive some pleasure from Boys Air Choir, etc. I can also enjoy a snort of fentanyl. I mean, I really can. But both are decadent slouchings toward corruption, destruction, death – individual and collective. Libera et al. are parasites on their dying substrate of Western civilization. If you go with the momentary pleasure – believe me, I understand – you miss the deeper truth.

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