“The world strictly opposes all requirements of sexual hygiene. The natural instincts are biological facts which can neither be effaced from the earth nor be basically altered. Like everything living, man needs first of all satisfaction of his hunger and gratification of his sexual instinct. Society as it is today, impedes the first and denies the second. That is, there is a sharp conflict between natural demands and certain social institutions. Caught as he is in the conflict, man gives in more or less to one side or the other; he makes compromises which are bound to fail; he escapes into illness or death; or he rebels — senselessly and fruitlessly — against the existing order. In this struggle, human structure is molded.
“Human structure contains the biological as well as the sociological demands. Everything that is signified by position, fame and authority, defends the sociological demands against the natural demands. I was amazed to see how one could so thoroughly overlook the enormous importance of the natural demands. Even Freud, though he himself had discovered quite a considerable part of it, became inconsistent.” (pp. 102-3)
“Masochism, furthermore, became a central problem in mass psychology. The question as to how this problem may be practically solved in the future seemed of decisive significance. The working millions suffer the most severe deprivations of all kinds. They are being dominated and exploited by a few people in power. Masochism flourishes like a weed in the form of diverse patriarchal religions, as ideology and practice, smothering every natural claim of life. It keeps people in a profound state of humble resignation. It frustrates their attempts to cooperative rational action and makes them forever afraid of taking responsibility for their existence. This is the stumbling block for even the best intentions for a democratization of society.” (pp. 110-1) — Wilhelm Reich, Selected Writings (Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1960), Atlanta Public Library # 615.85
“What I actually am is an offshoot of Paganism and early Irish Christianity. I follow beliefs which formed the basis of the Culdee Church. The Culdee Church was the only true union of Paganism and the real teachings of Christ; it was brutally stamped out by the papacy. The Culdee Church continued to believe in an ancient Celtic gods. It continued to believe in the Danu and the Dagda and it considered all the ancient heroes and heroines of Ireland to be saints. They had women clergy. They did not believe that sexual intercourse was sinful and, as a matter of fact, on all the church doors was a big portrait of the Great Mother giving birth with her clitoris exposed and her labia pulled wide and her mouth open because she is in the birth ecstasy. Those are called Sheila-Na-Gigh…
“I want people to start getting off. Drugs and sex are an essential part of magical rites. Some of the heaviest power is obtained that way. Do you know that there was a period in Irish history when people were so liberated that they were able to make love in any public place, without shame.” — Sharon Devlin in Chapter 6 of Drawing Down the Moon by Margot Adler (Beacon, ‘79)
If anyone knows who originated the term, “FNORD,” tell me. A FNORD is something manipulative and subliminal relying on an unexamined premise. For example, I once designated “blue” as a code for “male” — because baby boys are customarily dressed in blue. Yet through usage (misusage) in conspiracy politics the word and color blue almost immediately came to symbolize sex, instead. We call that a FNORD: the tacit premise is that only males like sex. What does it reveal about the level of consciousness involved? I say it is that of the Anti-sex League in 1984.
Language reveals a lot about attitudes. Among intelligence community people, particularly those involved with the Defense Industrial Security Command, any intimate interpersonal experience is called “going to the store.” Tacit premise: friendship, love and sex are just commodities — like chewing gum, flashlight batteries and bread. You get them by “going to the store” and, as is the case among such vessels, in exchange for something else — usually performing a favor for some third party. I say that is precisely the manner of thought described in Brave New World.
Circa 1967 a letter to the editors of the Los Angeles Free Press from a woman who had just seen her first copy of that underground newspaper, complained that the paper was about nothing but sex. Among the many other causes championed by the L.A. Freep were the Peace Movement, the Psychedelic Movement and all the avant-garde arts. This is another mentality very common in conspiracies; if you mention ten things and one of them happens to be sex, there are people who will from then on talk about nothing else with you but sex, be they for or against it. Where I first noted it was in the Free Press letter and, curious about where such a mind was at, I began noticing every subsequent instance of the same thing. Not until I discovered conspiracy politics though did I begin encountering this quaint attitude daily. One evening I got into such a discussion with an aging gentleman who kept insisting on bringing up things like whether I preferred masturbation or coitus, etc. when I wished to talk about an important international matter on which he was an authority. Eventually I expressed my opinion that only sexually repressed people can speak of nothing but sex, and he was very insulted. But I cannot help always thinking of the guy who, after taking an ink blot test, invited his shrink to a stag party and said, “And, Doc, bring those dirty pictures.”
If you will remember carefully or have access to back issues, by some chance, of supermarket scandal tabloids — early August of 1975 was when they all switched, as if in step, from a whole flurry of articles on the JFK murder to pieces dealing exclusively with JFK’s illicit affairs. Call it coincidence or not, exactly a week earlier was when I first approached Reginald Eaves’ office with my information about the JFK assassination.
If we interpret the doctrine of Natural Rights more consistently than 18th Century customs permitted, sexual liberty is properly an end, and not a means of social organization — protected by precisely the principle that guarantees religious freedom as well. Tolerate 1984 and Brave New World social customs only if you wish to remain slaves.
LANGUAGE IS THEFT/ Mystic: One who takes the Good and the Beautiful for the True. — Ho Chi Zen
