Riffin' On the Letter from the Forbidden Planet: The Galaxy Railways (not really)

“I have told you these things, so that in me  you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” John 16:33

                Interestingly enough, the reason one has trouble in the world is so that they may ontologically align themselves with…in the sense that the entire cosmos and every activity within it is bafflingly oriented towards…peace, comprehensively. This is the kind of “peace”…this “comprehensive” peace, which sees comprehensive salvation perpetuated and caused by the activities taking place in each and every moment…and these activities are the same ones we’ve ever known, meaning that the worst of suffering, things as large and abstract  as war even, are in their midst. Whenever God’s “mysterious” Peaceful or  Loving ways are alluded to, it means that…that all is love even in a world in which you must differentiate between what is and isn’t love for the very sake of your survival.

                 Culture is important, but it’s a word rarely contextualized effectively. What is culture but the culmination of the professional efforts of men and women, well…both the professional AND personal efforts of men and women…as they traversed their years within the society? Like money, it’s a sort of quantification of our love…of our personal experiences as we age. No matter the profession, people are doing nothing but testifying to the eternal truth-objective at the core of experience simply by wracking up lots of…experiences (striking against an objective materializes life’s objective). That somehow we can exchange paper money and turn this into the social thing that we did as we do, is crazy. These are our lives, secretly. Our jobs are about the slow, gradual, spiritual actualization…by secular means. We live in an entirely spiritual state…with a separation of church and state, and political “leaders” very much unwitting of the nuance of how it all actually works/comes together in a meaningful way for the personal psyche.

                We teach to bring people to “peace” so that suffering doesn’t bring them there…by way of death. But we’ve been doing this collectively, and effectively, and somehow effectively passing it on to the next generation…for someeeee time now. We’ve progressed in leaps and bounds as a people, and yet most somehow don’t know God…don’t run into God in their daily lives…until late in life in terms that know no social platform by which to link up and share that we are all feeling this way internally when we are alone in our days.

                 If we were to somehow overtake the stasis at the moment…and get that happening organically…get people sharing truthfully about simply the sheer weirdness of their experiences…the quiet things no one knows…I think we overtake that tendency of the “world” to spiritually confuse us. In a huge way, modernity already has. Science, as an empirical institution, already has…but culturally, God is dead and eternity is not manifest, but then again culturally this is the central narrative told by…60% of the shows on the streaming service Crunchyroll, which excludes the genre of Scy-fy entirely… the idea of Eternity being manifest through some sort of heroic or principle-driven engagement of “the mythic” in the face of a sensibility that doesn’t uphold morality with totallll integrity. So apparently, our creatives are here in their personal lives, and whoever greenlit these projects thinks that the people also too are there in some way, shape, or form…

                 Anyways, the world isn’t there to spiritually berate us. It shouldn’t confuse us. In fact, things don’t look good…unless they are beautiful…and beauty seems to be based in devotional service to other lifeforms…that’s how things become beautiful…appropriate…as they should… so like the rules of the world ensure that the world, mostly, isn’t a horrible nightmare…but we’ve all seen scenes of chaos and darkness that are crazyyyyy along the way in our lives. So things boil to the surface…apparently.

                I merely mean to convey, the world itself is a sign…it’s the most important thing ever. It is love, manifest. And yet we see people in sin… buckling under unglimpsed consequence (usually if you convince them that life itself is comprehensively redemptive and that the authorities were too persnickety to be right, that the Fonz was secretly a psyop on behalf of Jesus and that the cool will overcome what the society has yet to habitually overcome and that's why we need you, specifically, outcast...they end up ok). We see people die at times, by their own hands… but mostly, to be exposed to the world is to grow wise, not confused, it must be said. That is one of the great fallacies of the era. The world is self-correcting…but it does need us, and that it does gives our lives shape and meaning/has resulted in all of the normative-conventions of the culture in literally all of the walks of life within said culture. Oh! And if you think you see taboo behavior in the midst of like guru culture or religion or spirituality...I must say, death/suffering is the greatest taboo we never can integrate. We never actually are ok with it, and it's forbidden. As silly as it sounds, I've seen a parallelism in stories in which Messianic types, or those who devote themselves to great causes, find themselves in the midst of controversial behavior when the potential for miracle spontaneously manifests, and it holds great potential to undo something forbidden that has historically been construed as a universal constant/utility. You set such a wonderful spot at the table for ol' Grim Reaper that you also decided to serve him a feast...it’s illegal to campaign against him… Apparently he just lives here rent free now...at the table... it's not a psychological truth, and it's not a way of looking at the world. Our deaths are a mystery, not a constant we work towards across time. We don't simply erode... these are monkey paradigms. Life democratizes. Life, like Texas, deputizes. Everyone is bigger in Texas.

Best 4 episode mini series everrrrr…it could be construed to about the spontaneous emergence of divine intervention in the social world…it’s arguably a charting of methodical lines by which it usually happens…and shows how it happens in the lives of both professionals and “vagabonds”/mythics… beautiful stuff 😍 a total Christmas show!