The Dynamic of the unimaginable actualizing
Pace McGilchrist, let Left brain go it's delusional way
Images surround me on all sides of social relationships even before birth. My aborning mind was predisposed to the future-to my SF Bay Area time/experience suburban then urban cistern filled since 1957 and in 1966 having been moved from Hershey PA. (and not by hippy parents) in a white VW 1963 bug with luggage rack hissing across the country to Sacramento. Now the frog croaks from the 36 years in San Francisco life surface of that past future then in 2024 where all the idols of the tribe are swimming naked and fondling one another in 24/7/365 media blaze for their OnlyFans. Each according to their need in a droll Saturnalian Spectacle” Debord writes about this: “The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.”
And social relations are important enough that image proximity inside our head is close enough to real Virtual Reality as to almost have us pine to be in that 1963 Phillip K. Dick story In the Days of Perky Pat. People live in isolated enclaves in California, surviving off what they can scrounge from the wastes and supplies delivered from Mars. The older generation spend their leisure time playing with the eponymous doll in an escapist role-playing game that recalls life before the apocalypse — a way of life that is being quickly forgotten.
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It feels like we have been living on the fumes of memories for some time now....my time here from '64......everything I yearn for and treasure is of the older worlds....recent, and not so...
“The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.” Maybe. I find this irrationally optimistic. Object Relations psychology tells us that in babyhood-early childhood, we form images of the world to provide us with false permanence. Mommy goes away when I want her. At 18 months I form an image of mommy so I can have her when needed. Perhaps we soon have enough images that we don't need actual relations. All the imagery of the outside world merely triggers the coresponding internal image of a world we never have to leave, for SF or ....The spectacle then is internalized and 'harmonized' with the past.