Universally
Cultured
The
Phenomena of Rhythmic Energy, Language, Music, the Arts
And
their historical implications
Philosophical
Exstasis: Linguisticism
Preface
***I
have no fucking clue what I even really said in here. Well, I have an
IDEA... but yeah. Hahahaha. Have fun. (Apparently I wrote in the
grammar rules that fragmented sentences are encouraged & I use
“it’s” regardless if it’s wrong or not.)***
“The
real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if
you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it
whatever you wish.” –
Terence Mckenna
("Alien
Dreamtime" a multimedia event recorded live. (27 February 1993)
I
Societies
across the world exist because they are forced to by the innate need
for Modern Man to procreate. Humans, like all animals that require
other animals of their species are forced by nature to be Social. The
glitch in this system doesn’t exceed the ability the human brain
received by whatever unknown force that introduced it to primate
evolution; to intellectualize. In other words, from the Dawn of Man
in some historical models primate evolution was brought about by a
slow gradual evolutionary curve that is the direct result of an
unknowingly powerful cataclysmic blast that sent matter into the
universe in completely random directions, only to find agreeable
matter, exchange numbers, and copulate. Terence McKenna had the idea
that the Big Bang is the least likely scenario, so the Big Bang is
the
empty canvas of which Philosophers, Scientists, Preachers, Professors
and the like have been painting their ideas or models of what the
Universe is on. This empty canvas of unlikely possibility. Without
diving too deep into my specific opinion on Evolutionary theory and
how it relates to the consequential events in History and ultimately
our development as a species, I’ll conclude this tangential
introduction to Music and Arts with a single statement, that I think
makes sense. If music were ever perfect, there would no longer be a
need for it. Music
is the Universe,
in that we create our own models of what we feel Music is out of the
transdimensional clay of multi-conceivable perceptions of
socio-environmental influence.
Music
and the Arts is always a very intensely philosophical undertaking.
Because in order to understand the Arts (which is what people of the
past referred to as Magic, Witchery, “Ninjitsu,“ and the like)
one must delve into the very depths of the Human spirit. This is not
an original notion by any means, but the desire to restate this
notion is just as strong as the desire one gets as an artist, to
create. True artistry, whether wrapped in this guise of Capitalist
greed or bound by the twine of responsibility that is seemingly it’s
very nature; to question the Self and therefore to question each
other. Questioning is the key to realizing any related truths that
one may have missed on the first go-’round. George Carlin said,
“It’s not important to get children to read, children who are
going to want to learn to read are going to learn to read, it’s
more important to get children to question
what they read. Children should be taught to question everything…,”
and I’ll narrow that down a bit… everything they think they find
complete truth, must be questioned. The argument usually is, if you
don’t accept something as true and always question it, you’ll
never find the truth. The simple response to that argument is why is
it required to define a questioning statement as a statement only
released and received to fulfill present notions of personally
desirable intentions to find Truth. The concept of true
intentionality… so rather than question something because it seems
like it doesn’t make sense; and like what William Cooper said,
question the things you even think you believe are truth, because if
you enter the realm of mysterious discovery with pre-conceived
notions on what the truth is, you‘ll only find evidence to support
or deny your claim and will never find the Truth. This is the Chief
Cornerstone of human intellectual history, the Sword in the Stone,
the Light of the World, the Blessing in Retrospective Disguise. This
is Nature at it’s very hub. In doing so consciously for the first
time or some time after you‘ve reflected a bit, you will find
yourself realizing truths in such rapid fashion based on so many
layers of predetermined understandings, that you will feel a
sensation of “awakening,” every single time. This is Truth fused
with Emotional Response. This is the pre-functioned reaction your
body feels
is perfect to balance you (as an energy-filled being) when you
discover a Truth. This concept alone is difficult to embrace, but you
have to deduce it even further than the standard conclusion often
reached by lazy intellectuals and uninspired political hustlers who‘s
Ends are only Justified by “Means,” (makes you think, ends are
justified by Means… more than likely on an ever increasing average
scale; which may be where statistical probability comes from)… the
trendy conclusion. In so far as, this is
the Crux of intellectual growth’s systematic design. When an entity
realizes a Truth, even before it decides to question it, as has been
stated prior should be actively taught and practiced as a healthy
behavior, there is a real sensation of the physiological sort, always
occurring right on the money upon the discovery of a Truth. And it’s
one of the most positive feelings one can experience in the emotional
spectrum. This implies, in an almost identical way the Reproductive
Processes our bodies cycle through when we feel we need to get “on
the prowl,” and attempt to mate and procreate. The Urge. The work.
The formalities. The Finances and ruined carpet and over flowing
ashtrays that never get emptied. We all know what it‘s like, but
when you finally reach true Orgasm with that mate, after all the
smoke clears, you’ve striven for a single thing, Creation (by
nature this is true in it‘s most natural sense, regardless of what
modern misconceptions exist about the psycho-physiology of the
difference between Love and Lust). Ideally (or not… circumstance
beckons…again), a child is born. And therefore in a single
instance, evolution pushes forth. When one discovers a Truth, the
sensation created is intellectual Orgasm, and out of that intense
emotional (and physical, I might add) response comes eventual
Understanding of that Truth. Just as out of the intense physical and
emotional response of the Sexual Process comes eventual Creation of
the Intention. In perhaps simpler terms, the Parallel rears it’s
oddly misshapen head in this idea: To Create anything, one must
experience a Process of Creation, in which seemingly by it’s very
nature, causes the urge to be a Creator. This is where I usually try
to draw you into the connection between the Unknowable Forces we all
deduce (as Philosophers or Humans, you choose the word) in dissimilar
orders as the same thing; and the urge (that is also quite
indescribable and unknowable) to Understand what/where/why/how/who
the Unknowable Forces are. In the wake of this very simple and
impossibly hasty process, is one thing: Creation. Regardless if we as
Intellectual Humans are stuck in this void of infinite
misunderstanding or infinite understanding, there is still present
that indescribable Urge to create. This idea rings true on almost
every layer of Human Society, Human Nature, and Humanity in it‘s
most basic general terms, and with each ring comes an even more
abundant and psychedelic resonating effect. Think in terms of
exponential mathematics. You learn a Truth, you “awaken,” your
Urge to discover more Truth kicks into high gear (the metaphysical
Adrenal Gland of the Creation process), and in (with fair confidence
in this estimation) the wake of that single new Understanding of
Truth comes an undeterminable ripple effect of more Understandings of
more Truths. Evolution down to it’s very core is simply a series of
exponentially increasing Creation, in relation to what is needed to
understand, regardless of the dimensionality. This is where you get
the infinitely pieced puzzle of the Universe, with Philosophy and Art
crafting the Present’s most definable means to fill in the
“blanks.” Philosophically, all this means is Hegelian Dialectics,
Marxism, and Democratic ideals all fit together on this puzzle as a
shape (conceptual resonance, perhaps) just as Buddhism, Metaphysics
and Christianity can be welded together (rather forcefully, I must
add) to add another Mass to the Paradigm Puzzle. The moment this
piece is placed in Unison to the Puzzle a new Philosophical creation
is unleashed and the entire Creative process then recycles, with no
time enough to even measure with any sort of conceivable symbolic
system of numbers, or letters. Then the Orgasmic feeling of
“awakening,” is followed by that anomalous sense of Urgency to
discover more! To Create more! To feel more Orgasmic awakenings! This
may also be the very rudimentary engine structure that defines our
Human susceptibility to addiction, of any kind. But regardless of
that, this idea that Creation is the driving force behind evolution
is not only a seemingly innate characteristic of Nature itself, but
is cause AND effect, the Yin AND the Yang… it is every teaching of
every true Seeker of Truth.
Societal
cues and basic returned responses of those cues Create what McKenna
and many other thinkers, Modern and otherwise, referred to as
something like a filtration system (simply: opinion;
to be even clearer and deduce even further) for perceived reality as
we as humans drift on the Space/Time paradigm seeking refuge through
the Doors of Perception. It’s like a child’s blanket which
possesses such an intense intention to smother the inconceivable
potential Understanding that child will inevitably come to. The most
accurate term for this concept is Culture. I don’t have to force a
young mind through a Culture 101 lecture for them to understand the
concept of Culture. Culture is as innate as the Symbio-instinctual
Human Genome. Culture is what lies on the other side of the Doors of
Perception. The emergence of a seemingly natural conflict that is
simultaneously agreed upon; as the Truth. Culture is the impermanent
immortality of Human Intellectualism and Evolutionary Progression.
Even the most radical idea in the most radical realm of radical
thinking has a newly Created model of Culture. On a very basic level,
Culture IS the Universe. The Universe is the substance in which we
mold our Culture and our Culture is the substance in which our
Universe takes root, to ultimately sprout under the glistening glory
of the singular Light. I write with cryptic and pseudo-intellectual
language; because I know, based on this understanding of the Creation
of Culture and therefore the Creation of the Universe that my choice
of words (subconscious, or not) Creates its own Culture. Perhaps the
infinitely unbound urge of dependency is what that Urge to create
derives from; and therefore it’s engine and its wheels, it’s
Viola and it’s Pizzicato Cello Bass line, it’s Light Source and
it’s Coloring utensil… all being Created exponentially anew on
the canvas of the Universally
Cultured.
My
attempt to expand upon this concept of the Universally Cultured
depends, co depends and is paradoxically independent on/from Culture
and its resulting Language-produced Arts, Music and symbolically
represented and deeply deduced perceptions of Truth; or Philosophy.
If anyone
tells you they have no
interest in Philosophy, they are innately wrong. Just as a melting
pint of Ben and Jerry’s Phish Food Ice Cream, still bound by the
poison of plastic imprisonment, is correct to keep melting under the
sun in which it is foolishly and irresponsibly being allowed to
post-exist. Get the point? There is no such thing as a non-deducible
conclusion. Naturally, an outcome must resolve to result from this
post-existing melting delight, and that result is the Ice Cream
equivalent ‘Lingo,‘ or “tasty” language, The Music
and the Arts.
The
first dimension of Culture that I focus on specifically and will
probably conclude with should this writing ever reach an end, is
Music and the Arts, and yes the two must be together as one
inseparable entity of Creation. The Creation of Universally Cultured
ideas are conceived in the Philosophical Mind’s Urge
to Create. Creativity existed in original arts and languages, evolved
riding the tail-saddle of the Jurassic clarity of indigenous stick
figured attempts at modeling the Self, and persists as a Self serving
co-independently encrypted and decrypted function of the Universally
Cultured. One quick aside about Culture before I forget… Culture is
undoubtedly one of the most important Natures or outcomes of Human
Intellectualism, and it’s vastly rapid acceleration from
Catapulting Cosmic pebbles and debris aimed for Crowned Jewels to
Pellet Guns and Figurine disfigurement, or maybe… reconfiguration
is the Historical symbolism we can tag the process with. Or maybe a
more appropriate comparison; a stick with a sharp point to a cluster
of bombs with energetic potential that exceeds the possibility for
the arrogantly considered inevitability of Earthly regeneration.
Music
and the Arts as a rhythmic mutually inclusive entity has been at the
foundation of Human development pre-intellect and most likely before
the initial sapiens’s evolution. The primate body, in it’s erect
form is relatively taller, less aerodynamic, more strangely
configured than many animals and still perfectly equipped for rhythm.
Rhythm exists in the intertwining and overly bound fabric of Time.
Plastic and trite more often than not; this Time
concept. The black and the white duality is forced together by the
dominant energy of rhythm. The need to move in space, the
pre/sub/super-human addiction to procreation, the rhythmic nature of
repeating specific actions to attain desired reactions/climaxes
(sexual stimulation of exceeding and increasing pleasure and it’s
explosive result; continuing evolution) and the Understanding that is
the rippling of the tear drop, post impact, with the messy carpeted
flooring in the pitch black yet completely familiar space; that costs
way too much to spend a single month living in, much less multiple
years. Digression aside, again…
Rhythm is the boundless uninterruptible (except with the death of
presently understood truths, which conceptually would just merge into
a subsequent rhythmic-fractal of an identical nature) force… Rhythm
is to the Energy of Music as Gravity is to the Lunar-Oceanic effects
on Earth and it‘s perfect balance with the infinite Solar defined
season change. Rhythm is the energy that creates the Universally
Cultured. Rhythm and resonance is like the oil and gas compounds that
drive Universal machinery. Returning to the notion of the Urge in
hopes to close in on this idea in a more precise manner, the Urge to
create is by nature a Rhythmic energy (sexual/musical rhythm). Out of
this rhythmic energy, by-passing the obvious point where man
discovered his ability to recognize the rhythm as a coherent and
concrete abstraction and Creation of an innately simple physical
action (tapping a tree with a hand, and the resulting sound, and the
resulting Rhythmic resonation or the clicking of the teeth more than
once in succession). So, finally
music
is born. Which came first, the rhythm or the music? Did Rhythm exist
before Music… or is Music only the discovery of different ways to
create newly perceived Rhythms? Sounds to me like this whole Human
vs. God showdown is a little too closely associated to the Chicken
and the Egg war that rages defiantly across the cosmos. Sounds like
there’s way more to this Creation idea than is understandable.
This
question of Rhythm’s existence before Music and vice versa is one
of the many paramount dual-singularities that allow this concept of
the Universally Cultured to be True without True
understanding.
Think of Rhythm as a True form of Energy. Think of how it is
perceived. Energy is visually and spatially filtered. Visual
representation of images and motion through gravitational space; that
is Rhythmic Energy. Rhythm is to Universal acceptance as Music is to
Cultural interpretation. Kind of like Energy is to Universal
acceptance as Existence is to Cultural acceptance (or some variation,
it really doesn’t matter how specifically focused this can get).
I’ll remove this concept of the Music and Arts from the unrelenting
vice grips of Philosophical thinking for a moment and merge the prose
with a specific fundamental rhythmic tool. The rhyme.
You
know the sayings, the rhythm and rhyme, the rhyme and reason, etc…
Does basic (or in my case, ridiculous) prose become music the instant
it is Created as a Rhyming piece? Or is prose a different but equally
powerful means of creating Music? Here’s the fundamental break in
the bond that Rhythm and Music have, and it’s so deeply rooted into
the Aesthetics of the written word (more evolutionary implications
arise, of course). The writings we choose to use as English speakers,
or Spanish speakers, or Arabic speakers, all differ, whether
different in alpha-numerical ordering or simply the rearranging of
the geometric shape creating tendencies. The aesthetic of this
written word is based on a vast rule system and symbolic-structure; I
think more than is even considered once a child is taught to write
(the desk, the lame classroom, the white paper, all those lines, and
the pencil that never sharpens efficiently enough so you have to keep
trying to sharpen it until it breaks in half). Writing is
symbolically Created to catalyze a “Linguipathy,” or linguistic
pathology through
time and space/matter and spirit. Culture is the system that this
Linguipathy specifically filters through. Now return to your idea of
what good music is supposed to be, keeping in mind the notion of
Culture as a systematic machine that “Linguisticism”
(Lingo-mysticism) forms itself around in order to nurture the
system’s growth. The disconnection of Rhythm and Music as
inseparable entities happens only in this fragment of conceptual
deducibility. Prose is to linguistic pathology as Rhyming or Poetry
is to Music. The ability to conceptualize that comparison without
having to document the necessity for Rhythm in the equation is the
discrepancy I’m talking about in fundamental logic. The Rhythm is
the Universal Order and the Music is the Cultural Acceptance and
Reciprocation of questioning one entity only, the only thing that
drives music into infinite existence, Rhythm. Rewind now, go back a
bit… Can Culture truly exist Universally without a concept of
Universality? No. Can rhythm exist without Music? Yes. Can both
Rhythm and Music exist as a Universal law and order then?, just as
Demagogue-Fascist Republican Hegemonic Hierarchies can exist as
Cultural laws and order? This gets the mind working, believe me! To
say that Rhythm is the Energy that drives Music in a Universally
Cultured predisposition for aesthetic desire or interpersonal
achievement kind of just… I don’t know… line-dances its way out
the back door. Let me be clear, this assumption is made with the
utmost confidence and humbleness. Most certainly personal achievement
is often fulfilled truly before, during, and after (in retrospect,
always) the Creation process and most certainly Aesthetic desire
(desire is a key word here in this realm of conceptualities). To
desire an aesthetic is just as simple a notion as desiring a favorite
decision that never fails you (what to eat at that obscure restaurant
you’ve only been to a few times, or what song to listen to driving
along your childhood streets) for your money or the fulfillment of an
intense craving.
Urge:
Enter
stage center.
Psychologically and even in the realm of Psychoanalysis, perhaps more
Jungian than Freudian is the comparison of the Rhythm’s innate
Energy characteristic and the Un/Subconscious Mind’s (Id, Ego…
etc) reliance on the possibility of a Dream state to place
semi-applicable standards for describing reality. Freud’s only
error in thinking based on his strangely fitting model of the
Universal Order from within the Human Mind is his failure to mention
(look up later to confirm) the possibility that there still is an
Unknowable Driving Force or Engine that we call Universe. So in
conclusion to this particular relative tangent, the difference
between Music and the Arts and the Universally Cultured is seemingly
tangible evidence that Music and Art is a phenomenon anomalous to
Modern Humanity (post primary intellectual enlightenment) and isn’t
as deeply rooted into the Universe as Culture is as a whole and as
the Rhythm/Energy singularity is a likely unit. The Music and Arts
seems to me to be a specific tool utilized to stimulate not only
infinitely expanding Creation (symmetrical completely to that Urge to
procreate) but that Creative endeavor on a specie-continuing level
being the same and yet completely unique to the Creative process
being an actual extension of the Nature of Man and the Universe to
further evolution of the Mind, and consequently the species. I’m
trying to make a practical, clear distinction between the difference
of these concepts relative to their relationship to each other‘s
individual concepts and dualistic-singular connections. It’s a
geometric tool of novelty that allows mass to exist based on well
defined representations of matter. It’s a physics construct that
determines what the most logical and mathematically influenced
trajectory should result in… And that result is: further Urge to
create.
Back
into this theory
bound by rules of linguistic or prosaic conceptual dualities. Anyone
able to deduce this far through my writing is probably quite clear on
a somewhat general concept of a species’ evolution, specifically
ours. Regardless of belief in certain creeds or doctrines, if a
Priest were to think about Evolutionary processes he could probably
conceive of Humanity existing hundreds of thousands of years ago. He
could then presume a clear understanding of Mankind’s substantial
primary encounters with Music and the Arts and more specifically the
changes that sheepishly worked their way into the line of all the
other necessary actions needed to be taken to survive. Music and the
Arts came after the Acceptance of the Instinct, logically. Then after
realizing that Instinct will ensure a family their meat and water
came a short burst of terribly non-liberating free-time. These
people, living in Rhythm with their instinctual drives and their slow
consideration of their predisposition for intellectual thought (that
Urge) in the future, allowed for one or many persons to measure that
Rhythm and shape that Rhythm into something coherent enough to learn
from. Rhythm then is responsible for the creation of Language, even
outside of Language being a necessity for intellectual growth (which
is inarguable, even incomprehensible and indefinable languages still
bridge the gap between needing to communicate with others and the
actual methods and practices). Any Communications student will tell
you one of the first things they learn in their studies is the
importance and fundamental stability created in a human being in
relation to his Body, and the language it emits. Before the first
coherent spoken word that had the proper symbols and systems in place
to advance it as cultural, Rhythm was the language and therefore the
culture manifested itself from the rhythmic desire to have a
multidimensional use for the tongue. The beating of the chest and
shouting from the vocal depths created shapes of Rhythmic intention.
Think of what this actually means, post-deduction and pre-acceptance
as fact. Rhythm is
language, and by the very nature of its existence is the only
language with a rule system that encompasses the Universally Cultured
model of the Universe-Culture. The Rhythmic Energy that composes the
Universe by nature gave permission to a subset of primates to cross
the threshold into true communication, and this entire process was a
completely unique Cultural Creation. Again, this implies the
exclusive need for Modern Man to have Rhythm and Culture, to have
Energy and Universe. Language comes first creating culture, (every
single time in evolutionary logic) and Rhythm is the power source.
I’m sure you’ve noticed my failure to mention Music specifically
so far… perhaps you wouldn’t have had I said anything, because
the synonymous nature that Rhythm and Music agree by practically
disguises the necessity for Music, as it‘s understood miracle
by-product of Energy and Rhythm. Here’s my contention; Music is the
Deity, Tyrant, Office Manager and Night Shift Janitor. Music is a
post-linguistic by-product of Rhythmical Engineering tendencies.
Music attempts to define Culture and the Universe. Music defines
neither truly because it attaches like a prosthetic that Nature built
adaptations for, into this Cultural Universal identity of the most
dominantly evolving Intellectual species in evolutionary history, not
excluding the Dinosaurs. They were large enough, instinctual enough,
and definitely peaceful enough with each other being the clearly
dominant species. But the Present Time explains only one thing, a
completely different notion. They weren’t large enough, instinctual
enough or quite smart enough to sustain. Did Dinosaurs have Music?
Even relative to their inconceivable notion of what Music is or
isn’t, could they have had Music outside of Nature’s Rhythmic
Energy? Possibly they could have, but I’m leaning on the side of
not a chance in hell. The onset of language in Man sent entire
populations of people into uproars of musical fury and frenzy. And
after that initial Urge to create was fulfilled, Language was created
and gave rise to Music. Music has become the only Universal language
that everyone on this planet, even those who live with no concept of
what it’s like to hear it, still understand what Music is, what it
means and what it’s for.
Music
is the sole operator that separates the aesthetic cultural dynamic
completely from the central synapse of the Energy/Rhythm
complexities. Rhythm made Music a Language and therefore has created
upon itself, in its own image; a Language of Music. Sounds a lot like
God creating Man in his Image and Likeness. This is where I draw the
line. I feel as though Philosophical thought is a necessary
singular-duality in Human intellectualism. The only Philosophical
line of thinking that fits into any model of Culture and Universe is
this theory of Linguisto-rhythmic shifts in force and intensity… or
Music, Creating Culture, Creating Universe, and using its own medium…
Music….
to question and reinterpret both ideas in completely separate
conceptual realities and paradigms, therefore instinctually Creating
to fulfill that Urge for the means to do a single thing; not die.
Music strives to prevent its own destruction at the hands of itself.
Music strives to sustain, unlike Rhythm’s natural survival
encoding, but more like the fossil records after a civilization is
toppled, with the first explorers venturing across the newly created
wasteland discovering boxes and vaults inches under the earth, and
the months and years it takes for those small groups of people to pry
open that impenetrable barrier of the past’s future gift for the
Present, and those people emerge from the daily grind of which could
have yielded any number of mysteries, with a new addition to their
Culture. The difference is, Music is never forgotten, never buried,
and even if intellectual thought dissipates from the planet for
another billion years… the Rhythmic Energy of the Universe will be
there Coaxing the Gods of the Music and Arts into reality, to mend
and to invigorate; just as the Earth’s biosphere summons it’s
denizens to uproot and topple foreign structures not kept clear by
their keepers.
To
never be continued…
