The Hieroglyph of the Arcanum No. 17 is the Radiant Star and Eternal Youth. In this Arcanum a naked woman appears who sprinkles over the earth the Sap of Universal Life, a sap which comes from two vessels, one of gold and the other of silver. If we carefully study the esoteric content of this Arcanum, we discover perfect Alchemy.The Hieroglyph of the Arcanum No. 17 is the Radiant Star and Eternal Youth.
Andre Breton wrote Arcanum 17 during a trip to the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec in the months after D-Day in 1944, when the Allied troops were liberating Occupied Europe. Using the huge Percé Rock—its impermanence, its slow-motion crumbling, its singular beauty—as his central metaphor, Breton considers love and loss, aggression and war, pacifism, feminism and the occult, in a book that is part prose and part poetry, part reality and part dream. In the 17th card in the Major Arcana of the Tarot deck, a naked woman beneath a sky of stars pours water from two urns into water and onto land. This card represents hope, renewal and resurrection—the themes that permeate Arcanum 17. Considered radical at the time, Breton’s ideas today seem almost prescient, yet still breathtaking in their passionate underlying belief in the indestructibility of life and the freedom of the human spirit.
“Lying down” or “lying flat” is a form of passive resistance or protest by young Chinese people in the face of what is seen as fierce competition in education, gruelling work hours, and limited future prospects. The idea has inspired many young people to refuse a traditional life of continuing education, establishing a career, and having a family.
www.visiontimes.com/2021/06/08/lying-flat-derail-china-ambitions.html
Herbert Marcuse put it clearly long before the latest digital technology:
This immediate, automatic identification (which may have been characteristic of primitive forms of association) reappears in high industrial civilization; its new ‘immediacy,’ however, is the product of a sophisticated, scientific management and organization. In this process, the “inner” dimension of the mind in which opposition to the status quo can take root is whittled down. The loss of this dimension, in which the power of negative thinking – the critical power of Reason – is at home, is the ideological counterpart to the very material process in which advanced industrial society silences and reconciles the opposition. https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/09/edward-curtin/the-incantational-bewitchment-of-propaganda/
https://www.oftwominds.com/blog.html
This concentration of wealth and corruption isn't cost-free. As I've discussed here many times, capital siphoned $50 trillion from labor via hyper-financialization and hyper-globalization:
The Bill for America's $50 Trillion Gluttony of Inequality Is Overdue (September 21, 2020)
Our Phantom Middle Class (December 23, 2020)
Monopolies and cartels focus on self-enrichment, not social or economic stability. Concentrating wealth and power in the hands of the most self-serving few and their entrenched interests has crushed the ladders of social mobility. Assets such as a family home are out of reach in many locales for all but the few. Inflation, high taxes and the corruption of student loans, etc. have stripped all but the top 10% of any hope of gaining middle-class security.
The only rational response to this reality is to opt out, lay flat and let it rot: stop the self-exploitation of working to make the already-rich even richer. Direct resistance is easily suppressed by force. But "letting it rot" by withdrawing one's labor and conformity cannot be reversed with force. Once a critical mass of the workforce opts out of self-exploitation and "lets it rot," the system of financialization / exploitation of labor can no longer sustain itself and it collapses in a putrid heap.