Saturday, March 27, 2004
What do you do when you're staring madness in the face in the mirror and he winks at you?
I love my brain. I respect my brain, having a brain is sort of necessary to have all the other great things that I have in life. It's the thing that enables me to have other things. So if the other things it enables me to have are attacking the very brain itself, then how can they work?
But then also, having a brain is not it. I mean, divinity and intelligence are still different things, like a keyboard is different from the fingers that type on it. And the computer itself is separate from the keyboard.
Acid presents the fallacy that having a brain is all that is important. That all of our ideas come from inside our own head, so lets push the limits of the system, and lets make it break so we can see how it was all put together. But if the wizard conjures a demon who eats him, then who will unconjure the demon?
We must remember to always leave ourselves enough power to survive. Because each of these drugs steals a bit of that power. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. What does kill you, kills you.
It's always very important to know where that line is. And each of us has that line. For some of us it's a wall that we smash into, like a passenger in a speeding car, and we limp away bruised and broken, looking for a doctor.
For me last night it was a cliff that I jumped off of, catching myself at the last moment like Indiana Jones near the end of the Last Crusade. We know the hero can't die because he hasn't found the holy grail. Once he finds it, he has to die. he must either stay and guard the sacred chalice and have eternal life, or he must leave it behind and never see it again, and the rest of his life will pass in the blink of an eye.
Acid is the holy grail. it's the same holy grail as shone over the Castle Anthrax. Naughty, naughty zoot. You definitely deserve a spanking.
What is the holy grail, really? It's a castle full of young beautiful women waiting for you to do devious and wonderful things to them. But that's just the grail beacon. The real grail is kept locked up in a castle guarded by an insulting frenchman. Yeah you can try to get it, but you'll just get a lot of shit dumped on you.
So get an army up, storm the castle. All that does is end the film.
Arthur never recovers the grail. And neither will we. These great stories we retell now, with so much more depth. To the point where the symbols become so obvious that we just see them there. So then we mistake the symbols for the real things and we have to start all over again.
Each time, there's a new layer, an extra nudge and wink to the audience. Another little complexity added to the ritual. But it's not the endpoint of the ritual. It's the ritual itself. And we keep getting better and better at enjoying it.
I certainly am. I'm getting closer and closer everyday to enjoying it as much as I see i can. And I can see a lot.
-Trevor
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But then also, having a brain is not it. I mean, divinity and intelligence are still different things, like a keyboard is different from the fingers that type on it. And the computer itself is separate from the keyboard.
Acid presents the fallacy that having a brain is all that is important. That all of our ideas come from inside our own head, so lets push the limits of the system, and lets make it break so we can see how it was all put together. But if the wizard conjures a demon who eats him, then who will unconjure the demon?
We must remember to always leave ourselves enough power to survive. Because each of these drugs steals a bit of that power. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. What does kill you, kills you.
It's always very important to know where that line is. And each of us has that line. For some of us it's a wall that we smash into, like a passenger in a speeding car, and we limp away bruised and broken, looking for a doctor.
For me last night it was a cliff that I jumped off of, catching myself at the last moment like Indiana Jones near the end of the Last Crusade. We know the hero can't die because he hasn't found the holy grail. Once he finds it, he has to die. he must either stay and guard the sacred chalice and have eternal life, or he must leave it behind and never see it again, and the rest of his life will pass in the blink of an eye.
Acid is the holy grail. it's the same holy grail as shone over the Castle Anthrax. Naughty, naughty zoot. You definitely deserve a spanking.
What is the holy grail, really? It's a castle full of young beautiful women waiting for you to do devious and wonderful things to them. But that's just the grail beacon. The real grail is kept locked up in a castle guarded by an insulting frenchman. Yeah you can try to get it, but you'll just get a lot of shit dumped on you.
So get an army up, storm the castle. All that does is end the film.
Arthur never recovers the grail. And neither will we. These great stories we retell now, with so much more depth. To the point where the symbols become so obvious that we just see them there. So then we mistake the symbols for the real things and we have to start all over again.
Each time, there's a new layer, an extra nudge and wink to the audience. Another little complexity added to the ritual. But it's not the endpoint of the ritual. It's the ritual itself. And we keep getting better and better at enjoying it.
I certainly am. I'm getting closer and closer everyday to enjoying it as much as I see i can. And I can see a lot.
-Trevor
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