Creation Creating Is Creator

No.216, aired May 22, 2013, with live readings of two theses from Guy Debord’s Society Of The Spectacle (see notes in playlist), and passages from the audiobook edition of Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life: Because Your Life Has Meaning, by Rav Michael Laitman PHD, replete with references to “Figure 4”, etc., which I imagine must be referring to the sound figures created by Sun Ra & Burro, as there are no print materials in the CD package.

If I had pre-listened to the Laitman CD, I would have included some poetry by Robert Betteridge, who wrote, in Poem No.7 of a cosmic word horde called “Polar Perambulations” –

THERE ARE NONE
THERE ARE NOT
      ANY
THAT ARE NOT
      A PART
OF THE “THAT”
      THAT IS
THAT IS THE “IS”
THAT IS ISING
FOR
CREATION CREATING
       IS CREATOR
CREATOR CREATING
       IS CREATION
THE ALL IN ONE
THE ONE IN ALL
        EVOLVING

Which, like the poetry of Sun Ra, is a less stageist, more concise statement of macro/micro cosmic creative wholeness. Guy Debord steps in to remind us of the historical basis for class-based separation of creation & creator under capitalism, revealing Laitman’s “steps” as class struggle.

A correction: I attributed the quote “everything is possible, nothing is permitted” to William S. Burroughs. That quote is my own, although a quick google search confirms it is far from original. The Burroughs quote I was thinking of, which appears in various places in his writing, is "Nothing Is True, Everything Is Permitted." Now I wonder what’s the relationship between Burroughs and Burro. Draw your own conclusions, space traveller.

This episode receives a “Best Episode Ever” nomination from the religious wing of the Universal Inventory Of Existence.

Part 1

1. MAD – Napalm Death
2. Gobots Giver – Emetics
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Septui 2 – Emetics
5. Diving Death – Napalm Death
6. Chelsea Boys – Burro -- Thesis No.24 – Guy Debord
7. The Magic City – Sun Ra

Part 2

1. The Magic City (con’t) – Sun Ra & His Solar Arkestra
2. Alpha Punk – Ripcordz
3. Burnt Sonic Toast – Burro -- Thesis No.25 – Guy Debord
4. Exit Plexit – Simply Saucer