"You are marred... mishapen... measley."

[goatlove]

In an article (thanks, shepjoe) sketching out Genesis P-Orridge's contributions to Western civilization, s/he recounts his first conversation with William S. Burroughs:

"He asked me, 'How do you short-circuit control?'" Gen remembered. "And we eventually realized that the program that's really in control is our DNA. It determines so many areas of life,

Comments

[maxomai]

I admire the fact that GPO is fighting hard, but his approach can only result in more psychic incest. The genes cannot be abolished without destroying our humanity, since it is our primordial experiences that make us human. In and of itself this isn't a bad thing, but GPO and WSB lack the traditional tools to capitalize upon the result. Therefore, the likely end result is a self-destructive spiral of the type WSB details in The Western Lands, where our wishes are fulfilled at the speed of thought, eventually tearing us apart.

As free persons and as thinking meat, we must simply deal with them. Only if we don't deal with them will they enslave us.

I'm working on it.

[goatlove]

I would take that a step further to say that not only that we must deal with them, but that we are our genes. Or rather, we are what our genes are made of. The dualist project does then have the benefit of bringing the conflict home, to waging a war with the self by inventing a fictional "soul" or some other transcendent apparatus that can be used -- if successful -- to further hone and enliven the materia.

[thiebes]

Nicely said. I think it's another case of confusing the planes (identifying cosmic gender with personal gender) paradoxically combined with old-aeon dualist black school metaphysics. A combination of partial truths resulting in insanity and internal conflict. Yes, it does produce a lot of offspring and in many cases those offspring end up being, again paradoxically, allegories of truth if taken differently than they were intended by the author.

[goatlove]

I see this illustrated in particular with his comment drawing an opposition between being "determined" by one's very composition and having freedom. "Thou hast no right but to do thy will" and all that.

Still, whatever his goals, I have to admire such a devout and inspired pervert.