Be Sorcerer
It seems to me there’s a hazard we secular minded folk risk. Our satisfaction, indeed our conviction of the truth of cause and effect becomes a filter, a colored lens of sorts, a type of bias… It goes without saying too, bias allows us perceive anything at all. Without some bias (a lens) we’d be blind, deaf and dumb. The respect for cause and effect at least, is a bias less murderous than the politico-religio options.
In the interest of taking a break from Nietzsche/Zarathustra I’d like to offer more words from Bey. Consider and allow your body to assess the possibility. Trust yourself!
AS LONG AS NO
Stalin breaths down our necks,
why not make some art in the service of…an insurrection?
Never mind if it’s “impossible.” What else can we hope to attain
but the “impossible”?
Should we wait for someone else to
reveal our true desires?
If art has died, or the audience has withered away,
then we find ourselves free of two dead weights.
Potentially, everyone is now some kind of artist
— & potentially every audience
has regained its innocence,
Its ability to become the art it experiences.
Provided we can escape
from the museums we carry around inside us,
provided we can stop
selling ourselves tickets
to the galleries in our own skulls,
we can begin to contemplate an art
which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer:
changing the structure of reality
by manipulation of living symbols
(in this case, the images we’ve been “given”
by the organizers of this salon – murder, war, famine, & greed).
—T. A. Z. The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism by Hakim Bey, COMMUNIQUE #6 I. Salon Apocalypse: “Secret Theater”, page 39
