Do you see how this academic writer retain Verdi's secret which is no secret. Both Nature and Abstraction are the same. The Universe is a mirror of itself. As when in Nature animals eat and take sustenance and character from the substances they consume, so too, do we. Rabelais knew exactly what he was doing
when he created the metaphor of the giant pissing on the city for Fun. There's no reason we gives ourselves over to these giant abstractions other than "We just do." "We like it." There is a dialectic, a symbiosis of provisional autonomy. We give our life force to abstractions like state, family, corporation, etc, and they return the favor by stabilising in some various measure what we want to call our 'life' which is more or less the sum total of our proximity war with the matrix of the various digestive agencies and synthomes.
We are the organelles of the collective.
We are collorganellium.
Kind of makes you lose you boner. (Falstaff)
but like leaves of music (mistaken)
What a weird chicken coop we've made for ourselves.
Hinkelstrasse
Hirn-cul-stresse
stress which street
All Power relations
stem from the leveraging of indexicality.
Ideology is already a 'brand name" of this digestion exchange with abstraction.
Ideology is already one level into priestly taint.
Abstraction itself is the vampire we feed, and we, our body-praxis-browsers
are little more than abstraction ourselves, as complexity's 'soft machines'
are utterly perishable.
If we think of reef in terms of torque
as in "He reefed on the pipe util it broke free from the fitting"
Humanity at present time might be said to be
a "choral reef"
though what exactly we are breaking free of
is anybody's guess.
Are we breaking free of earth?
doubtful.
Are we breaking free of sanity, or insanity?
Couldn't say.
I think we must be breaking free
of breaking free.
We're stuck here.
We're fucked.
and our weird investments
will just return weirder and weirder dividends.
It's the what's behind the door scenario.
It's an old donkey.
There never was
Art for Art's Sake,
but only
Labor for Labor's sake,
and the thing birthed
is a monster.