On Oct 16, 2011, at 7:48 PM, david buchanan wrote: > > dmb says: > > Have you ever been that particular kind of drunk wherein you have that > "mystic feeling of Oneness"? I have. It's easy to imagine why the ancients > thought of it as a the power of a god, as a divine gift. It's also easy to > see how wine could get too much credit for it. I mean, you can go there > without any booze and you can drink your brains out and never know this > feeling. The drinking is neither necessary nor sufficient, and yet it is > often involved in the experience. Revelry is like that too, especially if > there is live music involved. Have you ever lost yourself in the crowd at a > rock concert? Have you ever been absorbed by a band in a smokey dive bar? If > not, you have my sympathy because it's downright religious and orgasmic. > Dionysus is one god I can believe in, but this is based on experience, not > faith. > > Orpheus is the son of Apollo and the Muse of epic poetry. He was a Dionysian > reformer. He loved the wild and the wild loved him and yet he thought their > rituals were too brutal and too wild. The Dionysian priestesses would work > themselves into a kind of ecstatic frenzy and then tear wild animals apart > with their bare hands and eat them raw. Orpheus was a vegan who thought that > was the wrong kind of naughty and wild. Chill out with the animal mutilation, > baby, he said to those priestesses. So they tore him apart with their bare > hands, ripped off his head and threw it in the river. Despite his murder, > Orpheus's floating head didn't stop singing. His aim was to mellow the wild > with some daylight rationality, the kind he got from dad's side of the > family. Today we have approximately the opposite kind of imbalance. There is > way too much daylight rationality and not enough drunken, dreaming wildness. > Our culture was potty-trained at gunpoint. We're in a neo-Victorian > reactionary hi > storical moment and I'm pretty sure that tight-asses just don't get much > tighter. Seems like the whole freaking world has been baby-proofed and > Disneyfied. And what's less baby-friendly and McSafe than a motorcycle? > > I'm thinking about Pirsig's complaints, especially those visceral images > wherein we are drinking life through a straw and wherein we are dogs racing > after a fake rabbit that can never be caught. The heartbreaking idea behind > those images goes way beyond words. They stir up something that you already > felt and knew on some level, no? Cut off from your own life, somehow, cut off > from nature both inner and outer. That's the prison that the "contrarians" > feel that they have to break out of or they're gonna die. It feels like slow > suffocation, a long drawn-out starvation diet, of never getting enough, like > something vital is missing. Wine is not the answer, but... >
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