"The relationship between mental elaboration and carrying out an action has been disturbed and transformed"
"Mass shooters were a forewarning and the presentiment of a coming mutation. Like angels, they were offering signs at the border of the Western psychosphere"
This is a really interesting article. I wonder what crossover there is with the esoteric writings and experiments of the Ccru. Even Mark Watson, who came out of the Ccru but turned left, argued that people brought up under what he called 'Capitalist Realism' could more easily imagine the apocalypse than the end of capitalism. The Ccru had a seemingly more Lovecraftian view of 'esoteric' influence in the universe. Perhaps the individualist and messianic 'super-aryan' vision you outline here is kind of mental fail-safe reaction similar to JSK's 'Dark Fluff' whereby the believers convince themselves that they have some sort of agency in the face of unknowable horror . Breaking stuff does 'feel' a bit like agency, hence the rise of the so-called 'disruptor', which has gone from the legitimate categorisation of an organisation that breaks open a static situation by innovation, to being used to describe any individual clown who wanders into a company or organisation and wrecks it. The former is hard to achieve, the second is shockingly easy if you have some influence that makes you untouchable.
Thanks Dave. Yes, CCRU is a good comparison, particularly their concept of theory-fictions. Of course, imaginary worlds can become real in the future because all possible futures initially reside in the imagination.
Antinomianism is I think a valid magickal tactic to deprogram oneself from societal conditioning and the orthodox mindset - think of the black mass. And magick itself is antinomian inasmuch as as it contradicts the established Western materialistic worldview. But O9A sit at the very extreme end of that antinomian spectrum, where their focus is explicitly oriented towards violence, fascism and general misanthropy. Also, there's a cynicism and exploitation at play - particularly in capitalising on the growing pessimism and nihilism amongst Gen Z etc. Worryingly, there's a trend amongst that cohort in favour of strong leaders who 'don't have to bother with parliament and elections'.
Plenty of occult lodges / orders / currents are concerned with 'immenatising the eschaton' in some form, and aeonic thinking is often beneficial in that it sees human evolution as a spiritual process that ultimately leads to some form of positive enlightenment. O9A's is the opposite; their dark future is all about enslavement, power, control etc. They're a great advert for why fascism is a really bad idea. But - for better or worse - the West seems to be heading in that direction ATM.
Great article, I recall O9A being discussed in Head magazine in the early 90's - it all seemed somewhat comical back then.
https://www.cosmobooks.co.uk/pages/books/366948/radical-culture/head-magazine-the-magic-issue-no-5-magick-human-sacrifice-how-to-raise-the-dead-cats-and-magic-kaos
From a related trajectory (not sure if you are familiar with bifo's writing):
https://www.e-flux.com/notes/649956/new-heroes
Thanks. Great stuff, esp the Bifo link:
"The relationship between mental elaboration and carrying out an action has been disturbed and transformed"
"Mass shooters were a forewarning and the presentiment of a coming mutation. Like angels, they were offering signs at the border of the Western psychosphere"
This is a really interesting article. I wonder what crossover there is with the esoteric writings and experiments of the Ccru. Even Mark Watson, who came out of the Ccru but turned left, argued that people brought up under what he called 'Capitalist Realism' could more easily imagine the apocalypse than the end of capitalism. The Ccru had a seemingly more Lovecraftian view of 'esoteric' influence in the universe. Perhaps the individualist and messianic 'super-aryan' vision you outline here is kind of mental fail-safe reaction similar to JSK's 'Dark Fluff' whereby the believers convince themselves that they have some sort of agency in the face of unknowable horror . Breaking stuff does 'feel' a bit like agency, hence the rise of the so-called 'disruptor', which has gone from the legitimate categorisation of an organisation that breaks open a static situation by innovation, to being used to describe any individual clown who wanders into a company or organisation and wrecks it. The former is hard to achieve, the second is shockingly easy if you have some influence that makes you untouchable.
Thanks Dave. Yes, CCRU is a good comparison, particularly their concept of theory-fictions. Of course, imaginary worlds can become real in the future because all possible futures initially reside in the imagination.
Antinomianism is I think a valid magickal tactic to deprogram oneself from societal conditioning and the orthodox mindset - think of the black mass. And magick itself is antinomian inasmuch as as it contradicts the established Western materialistic worldview. But O9A sit at the very extreme end of that antinomian spectrum, where their focus is explicitly oriented towards violence, fascism and general misanthropy. Also, there's a cynicism and exploitation at play - particularly in capitalising on the growing pessimism and nihilism amongst Gen Z etc. Worryingly, there's a trend amongst that cohort in favour of strong leaders who 'don't have to bother with parliament and elections'.
Plenty of occult lodges / orders / currents are concerned with 'immenatising the eschaton' in some form, and aeonic thinking is often beneficial in that it sees human evolution as a spiritual process that ultimately leads to some form of positive enlightenment. O9A's is the opposite; their dark future is all about enslavement, power, control etc. They're a great advert for why fascism is a really bad idea. But - for better or worse - the West seems to be heading in that direction ATM.
This is an excellent article. Thank you for the post
Thankyou!
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