Jonathan Bowden on the spiritual meaning of fire:
“I believe that's what happens when a sun forms, when a galaxy forms, when one ends, when a life begins, and when a life ends. That for me is life. Fire, energy, glory, and thinking.”
We face everywhere a degree of blind ignorance in who and what we are, because if you want to basically break a population down you remove the mental tier first because then people are adrift and are aimless and are wandering about. That’s why politics bores them.
There’s an intensely conservative side to me, but I’m probably a bohemian. There’s an artistic element in me. I don’t care for bourgeois respectability. It doesn’t bother me. That’s where the leaders of the extreme Right often come from. They actually come from the arts.
Count Orloc’s castle collapses into dust akin to an explosion on one of Gerry Anderson’s miniature sets. Doesn’t it convince us that the truth proves to be ashen, mimetic, non-providential, and ill-foretold?
"and he would only be interested in women of a 2D nature, a sort of revolt against the females of the times you see, he would be infatuated and obsessed with them, yet pay no attention to the women of the real world, one cannot be more right wing than that"