Three unwise monkeys
Image of. Three unwise monkeys on smartphones Brass redux meme for the modern age.
I can tell you the reaction on opening night of Cronenburg's movie 'Crash', was half the crowd walked out, others complained loudly during the film and the Asian couple that were sitting next to me said. I can't believe this movie was even made. So yeh different time of the world pre 9-11 world where it was easier to shock people and well now we live David Cronenberg's videodrome world where shock and horror is basically the internet and your choice of screen. David's use of trauma, the love of driving machines in western obsession and American sexuality was a stroke of genius in creating the animus of feminine emotions in the conceptual artistic representations, His use of the Bleach bypass colourisation in the more industrial scenes was a stroke of genius. The exploration of American modern art through each crash scene like a Jeff Koons sculpture that was popular at that time, like a Francis bacon stylisation. The monologues are perfect especially the James Dean recreation, that display of the canon in 'americana' and their love of the tragic rise and fall of beauty. Gaspar Noe is more interested in the jarring of a persons mind rather than the poetry of knitting a complex set of human interactions through a common element such as dark side of suburbia or cars crash victims that unite them as common people... Cronenburg could see the post human 'crispr' world of genetics and Virtual reality was the topic he mostly explored. Especially the use of scars as beauty where we live in a world of hypermodificaiion to the body and beauty has a very blurry line of acceptable.
Now in this constant image feed era of LED screen poisoning that has everyone with earbuds, screen glued to face and no need to speak other than into the rectangle in your hand. Giving people the Hear no Evil, See no evil, Speak no evil kind of brass monkey sculpture that I used to always see at my grandparents house.
image of original Three wise monkey Brass figurines ephemera.
So in speculation of the future shifts of human design it appears that the etheric view is becoming more internal, rather than external inventions.Technology is a trend...no one factors in Volcanoes and the effects on technology if we survive the next 5 years of transits then well? The shift of Pluto in Aquarius is basically the underworld taking us back to a simplified cycle. Terrence Mckennas cycle of 'Timewave zero' (system of societal invention and change based on the i-ching) is kind of apt for this era? The change is so quick and erratic that we have no canon moment like the discovery of fire, invention of the wheel or metallurgy to give us bronze age, etcetera, etcetera... Agreed the Uranus pluto conjunction around 2040 is the shiva moment agreed creation destruction will no doubt shift humanity through war famine lack of something, but does not that mean a complete reset of the human design and not by our external inventions to interact with? food for thought the stars don't usually invent the same cycle without making the fractal condense into something Majorly different.
Are we not heading towards this gargantuan car crash of human design through the pushing of what is new. The Cronenburg movies are like a tell tale sign of human evolution if you are to watch Videodrom, the fly, crash, existenz, spider finishing with Crimes of the future. They basically portray a human devolution towards the remodification of the human design. And in a Post Covid world hypermodernity, body image, metnal illness progression there is an undercurrent of a leveling that will happen in the next 5 years that always pulls humans back from the idea that external invention will enact the change.
If your interested to read a previous post about the comparison of current society's trajectory is similar to Pompeii and its dire ending. (link below)
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