Green Mysticism and Other Carnie Magic Tactics

This is building upon the whole notion I talked about earlier in the week as far as corporate images(sigils) and how they affect us beyond our conscious knowledge. What this picture is of, is a Växtväggen in Sweden. Which as reported by the blog core77 is: "a self-supporting system composed of a reinforced, multi-layered, synthetic and absorbent felt-surface on which plants are applied into small pockets."

It got me to thinking. Aside from the environmental impacts of putting things of this vein all over our cities, how would this effect that subconscious that's being shaped already by billboards, towers of concrete, and other elements of city design.

I mean, it's really quite astounding how much we underrate the environments we live in in terms of their abilities to shape and oppress thought. Consider how much effort and artistic blood and sweat goes into the planning and building of these structures. They are for all intents and purposes works of art. And we live in between them. It's like if you lived between a Picasso and a Van Gogh you're whole life, you know that would influence what kind of thoughts you came up with and how you evaluated the reality around you. This is analogous to our lives in cities beneath these towering pieces of art.

And then when you consider that much of the planning and building of these sorts of structures are handled by oftentimes clandestine city clubs, you're really looking dead at one of the most powerful methods of control those who want to shape the world have come up with.

So where does the plant wall come into this? Well it should be pretty obvious, but one of the methods in which we can manipulate these structures that have been forced upon us, is to simply write back over the top of them. Let the vines grow over those strange gothic designs. Cover those towering phallic symbols into giant trees. Besides sucking up Co2, we can effectively take the city out of our cities. We can reverse the city virus from within.

We can write on their logos and grow plants down their faces. We can install our own realities in front of their realities and effectively divert the massive comet headed our way, juuust enough so that we may latch onto it's energy and surf into cosmos unknown.

Become exterior designers. Become landscaping carnie magicians. Work in accounting for 8 hours and then step out into a forest of green mysticism. See how long you continue to think in the linear terms of the faux-modern.

Have at it.

Immanentize the Eschaton

Here is an interesting piece done by one of my favorite blogs about the use of corporate symbols in mind control. If you know anything about sigils, this is an ability that is out there and available to anyone. But the PR companies are the ones who are exploiting it the hardest and the best right now. I think Alan Moore said something about this in an interview, that a lot of the people who we would charge with creation of ideas--like our modern day magicians--they've been co-opted out by those who seek to exploit those talents and abilities for their own personal benefit without any respect to the advancement of the human condition.

I don't think this is something that is done intentionally, on a wholly conscious level. But I do think that when you are in position B or C in society, there are elements in place which make you do X thing. We're at a point in human history, where we have more power at our disposal than ever, but have never been so powerless to use it. The things we have sacrificed to get here, we're paying the bills of. And it's leaving strictures in places like this.

Part of this study showed how people exposed to the Apple Icon versus the IBM one, were prone to be more creative in their usage of the elements around them. Imagine if we were powering people up even more strongly in these respects, without such a hard eye to the bottom line?

And the thing is. This stuff IS doable. This is just crafting symbols and then placing them. Even if people aren't familiar with what the symbols are supposed to mean, this study indicates that they are still influenced. You say something like that, and then look around you at the iconongraphy that is puked all over our eniviroment and wonder just what the hell we've gotten ourselves into.

It reminds me tangentially(or not) of some of the stuff in Don Delillo's Mao II. In particular the bombed out Beirut with the coca-cola signs everywhere.

Forget voting. You're not changing shit with voting. The idea of voting is just some construct you are forced to buy into because of the symbology you're bombarded with on a daily basis.

You want to talk about the concept of civic duty. You're civic duty is to create newer and better symbology and spread it everywhere.

Our foot soldiers are graf writers and bloggers. Have you made a sigil today?