Rajneeshis backgrounding the Incels — for JM

August 10th, 2018 by Charles Cameron

  • LRB, Does anyone have the right to sex?

    • It is this extreme I have greater difficuty understanding.

    This most recently, btw:

  • LATimes, Killer who committed massacre in Isla Vista was part of alt-righ

    • The SPLC report counts Rodger among 13 alleged alt-right killers whose actions left 43 people dead and more than 60 injured since 2014.

    Elliot Rodger, the 22-year-old who killed six students in the college town of Isla Vista in 2014, was the first “alt-right killer” to strike in recent years..

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    Sex raised hopefully to the power of the infinite:

    And then I hear that howl against the backdrop of the recent documentary about the Rajneeshis, encouraged by their guru to explore their sexuality to the sacred, to satiation..:

    Wide-open their hope, shut-down their finale.

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    And finally, JM, Something Other and more personal

    A martini to cleanse the palate..

    Now I want to watch, intend to binge-watch Brideshead Revisited, the Jeremy Irons version, for some very un-American, upper-class-snobbish, public-school-boy, Roman-Catholic-gay historical-throwback art-level Britishness:

    Dropping you in at an odd, a very strange, indeed extreme in a dozen ways from Sunday, luncheon:

    I who have been beaten — four, with a bamboo cane, at Wellington College, (a sort of military academy slash prep school) — for doing the Times crossword in place of my math moework. Ah yes, and when I came up to Christ Church, Oxford, dunked in Mercury, that college’s Tom Quad pool, after exacting the price of a glass of port from my tormentors, almost twenty years before the film from which this excerpt was taken, was filmed.

    For I too am Anglo and Roman Catholic and Buddhist and Taoist and a snob — at least until I meet you or you, and humanity breaks in.

    And a creature of sexuality, defeated by sickness and old age..

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    1. Jim Parker:

      August 11th, 2018 at 2:45 pm

      Fascinating, Charles. I love the way you are able to find connections that so few other people are able to see.

    2. Grurray:

      August 12th, 2018 at 12:45 pm

      A relative of mine lives outside Pittsburgh. He used to work out at the LA Fitness club where an incel-motivated mass shooting occurred in 2009.
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Collier_Township_shooting
      Ironically, my cousin met his wife there. They now have three kids.
      Fortunately, they weren’t present that night. They were both into weightlifting, not the fitness classes.
      .
      Janis once famously said,
      “I don’t understand why half the world is still crying when the other half of the world is still crying too, and it can’t get it together…
      (paraphrasing colloquialisms & filtering obscenities)
      if you find love for one day, that day better be your whole life. If you find love today, don’t worry about tomorrow. The illusion of time is a misinterpretation of the indivisible whole of reality. In the words of Bergson, ‘inner duration is the continuous life of a memory which prolongs the past into the present, the present either containing within it in a distinct form the ceaselessly growing image of the past, or, more profoundly, showing by its continual change of quality the heavier and still heavier load we drag behind us as we grow older. Without this survival of the past into the present there would be no duration, but only instantaneity.'”
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      That last bit is a slight embellishment, but Janis was on to something. The future doesn’t exist and it never will. There is only the inexpressible unity of reality.
      This is the real dagger at the root of the frustration felt by these incel lunatics. They are estranged not from sexual gratification, but from transcendance of temporal perception and reunion with the whole of existence. Condemned to watch the clock, forever missing what another recent female pop star Taylor Swift sings about. The feeling that ‘time slows down whenever you’re around.’

    3. Charles Cameron:

      August 12th, 2018 at 2:49 pm

      “The illusion of time is a misinterpretation of the indivisible whole of reality” — yes. And there are areas of life where both, individle and illusion) present themselves in counterpoint, synchronically (grin). MayI quote you on what incels are estranged from? And Taylor Swift — where do I find ‘time slows down whenever you’re around’? Thanks.
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      As you may recall, I had an earlier encounter here with Taylor Swift videos being repurposed for Bach, and also (as memory serves), bin Laden videos.

    4. Charles Cameron:

      August 13th, 2018 at 10:32 am

      Hey, the Jordan Peterson intersection:
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      Jordan Peterson, Custodian of the Patriarchy

      Recently, a young man named Alek Minassian drove through Toronto trying to kill people with his van. Ten were killed, and he has been charged with first-degree murder for their deaths, and with attempted murder for 16 people who were injured. Mr. Minassian declared himself to be part of a misogynist group whose members call themselves incels. The term is short for “involuntary celibates,” though the group has evolved into a male supremacist movement made up of people — some celibate, some not — who believe that women should be treated as sexual objects with few rights. Some believe in forced “sexual redistribution,” in which a governing body would intervene in women’s lives to force them into sexual relationships.

      Violent attacks are what happens when men do not have partners, Mr. Peterson says, and society needs to work to make sure those men are married.

      Jordan Peterson Comes to Aspen

      I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women! Right? Because these characters, like the guy who mowed down those women in Toronto, he winds up blaming women—he’s blaming more than women in some sense, he’s blaming the structure of being for producing women that reject him—it’s like, what the hell is wrong with him? He’s got it completely backwards. If everyone you talk to is boring it’s not them! And so if you’re rejected by the opposite sex, if you’re heterosexual, then you’re wrong, they’re not wrong, and you’ve got some work to do, man. You’ve got some difficult work to do. And there isn’t anything I’ve been telling young men that’s clearer than that … What I’ve been telling people is take the responsibility for failure onto yourself.

    5. Grurray:

      August 13th, 2018 at 4:19 pm

      Charles, please feel free to quote anything you like. I do remember your post on Taylor Swift. In fact, before I read that I had never listened to any of her songs, nor really ever gave her much thought. I have since gained an appreciation for her talent and what she represents. Here is the song https://youtu.be/Sq83xrbEJag
      the hero’s reward comes in many forms.

    6. Charles Cameron:

      August 13th, 2018 at 5:04 pm

      Eminently kissable!
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      Sadly, the original post’a extraordinary videos have mostly been wiped from the web. If my questionable HD can be restored, I’d still have my copies..