Psychedelic Fascism

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"You dropped acid? Far out."

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Anyone remember when Charlie Sheen had his meltdown and became obsessed with his father's film?
Consider: In a late-February interview, Sheen showed off a tattoo on his stomach reading "Death from Above," a phrase on the playing cards that Robert Duvall's character, Lieut. Colonel Bill Kilgore, threw on his victims. Sheen has claimed that he has a TV in his house that plays the movie on a continuous loop. "I have what I call the Apocalypse Now channel," he said on the debut of his Ustream show, Sheen's Korner. "People might think it's a DVD — [it's not]! It's just streaming Apocalypse Now all day long."

Then there's the startling photo of Sheen wielding a machete on a rooftop, eerily similar to the movie's final scenes in which his father's character, Captain Benjamin Willard, uses the weapon against the mad Colonel Walter Kurtz (Marlon Brando). Or the Sheen tweet quoting Kilgore's now famous line about the smell of napalm in the morning. Sheen also reportedly wants to title his autobiography Apocalypse Me: The Jaws of Life. Meanwhile the term ApocaSheen Now has already been added to the Urban Dictionary website.
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Charlie Sheen's moment actually seems like something of a primer for Trump. He had a similar "Yeah, and?" approach to scandal for a time and was more or less bulletproof due to it, much like Trump was. He had all the catchphrases and merchandise too - tiger blood, winning, rolling out magic, banging seven gram rocks.
 
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If I come out to Londy will Version join us and we all cook crack together, it's very simple just need baking soda!
 
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shiels said:
thinking about the ‘set and setting’ idea at a societal level
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Yes.

I started reading this book by Jan Fries at the moment, 'Visual Magick: a manual of freestyle shamanism' last night.

(This is related to the Austin Osman Spare thread as well, but I'll put it in here).

"How do we open the gates to the deep? Austin Spare emphasised the use of vacuity and exhaustion for this purpose. Under certain conditions of consciousness, our armour of habit and self-assurance acquires gaps, cracks and holes through which the unknown may be reached. We have to exhaust or suspend our conscious identity."

He goes on to list strategies useful for getting into this place:

"Physical exhaustion is very useful. Good practices are: long walks in the wilderness, dancing, chanting, sex, martial arts practice etc., - anything that makes you forget your civilised personality, makes you sweat heavily and raises body consciousness."

Made me think of how a riot, or a protest, it's immediately a psychedelic setting.

He then talks about the use of crisis, but cautions that whilst it's useful, it shouldn't be depended upon or cultivated:

"Disappointment, pain, doubt, morbidity and disease all tend to create holes in the fabric of our personality, to take the meaning out of necessity, and to dissolve the restrictions acquired through stagnant belief."

He also talks about how a bigger ego will struggle to open up, cos the whole point is ego dissolution. And also cautions about drugs (dosage issue and can affect concentration).

I mean, what's currently going on in the USA (Corona + Trump + wider already existing crises of economy and climate), it's very open to the void right now.
 
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Oh good post. That's making me think of kubrick's techniques exhausting tom cruise in eyes wide shut as shamanistic
 
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