"In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia." - George Orwell.
"We are in a society of icy intolerance, where the slightest diversion from, the mildest breach of, the reality principle is violently repressed. Realist Philistinism and Pharisaism are triumphant on all sides. All ideas are immediately cast in concrete. The anathema level is the equal of any religious or Stalinist society. Nothing has changed. The conspiracy of imbeciles is total." - Jean Baudrillard.
"So the only way to save ourselves, to save humanity and culture from this snare, is to take the step beyond the logocentric culture, towards chaos." - Alexander Dugin.
It is the way of the initiate to seek the hidden causes of phenomena, and by observation and experience come to understand the innate workings of both Macrocosm and Microcosm. Just as there will be found to be "occult forces" which act behind the scenes of the apparent cause and effect of our own minds and bodies, so there will also be found certain forces of obscure origin lurking beyond our view on the world stage. Most average folk are more than content to focus on the apparent rather than trouble themselves with the bothersome task of looking a little further, and to a large extent we can hardly blame them for their ignorance when their very identities, let alone their means of existence depend on their compliance with the status quo. One of my pet niggles with the "truth movement" is the way it popularizes often obscure and occult themes by framing them (often in a negative context, but not always) in a conspiracy narrative which may or may not have some root in objective reality (an odd concept I know) and by this method manage to convince a growing community of consumers that they are informed on the hidden workings of the world when in actual fact all they have done is stray into what compared to their previous mindset is just a more exciting comfort zone. There will ever be the many and the few. The finer, rarer insights belong to those of the few... The courser but more practical insights belong to the many. All ancient esoteric lineages were marked by a strict elitism, initiation not only reflecting the spiritual state and progress of the initiate, but also marking them out as one of the "elect". This is perfectly natural and in no way did this fact denigrate those who applied themselves to the trades, the warriors, the artists, general labour, motherhood or any other equally demanding status in the community. As we stand poised at the brink of the disintegration of postmodernity we confront the malodorous cacophony of objections and contrived offense at any suggestion of the reality of human nature. The abhorrent blasphemy against all liberal, "civilized" morality that states "All men are not born equal, nor can they be made equal by any means, not even in death." The quality expressed in deeds and general composure distinguish the hero from the scoundrel, great men and women are remembered because they were more than an atomised unit of society. Universalism, in global, social terms, heralds a tyranny of mediocrity. And so here we come to the matter in hand, the bundle of threads that began to unravel between mundane life, magic and art created a knot, a nexus, that would significantly alter my metapolitical worldview. You could call it a sharpening of focus, or something akin to finding several dozen really important pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that when laid down in their places give a glimpse of something more strongly suggestive than what I had before. I'm going to keep it relatively cryptic, mainly because I want to talk about the entanglement between art, magic and mundane life/politics without the cumbersome and intellectually stultifying flag waving that accompanies all contemporary discussion in these areas. Nonetheless these areas converged at a particular point in space and time for me and it became inescapable to somehow work through it.
Being primarily an artist, politics is not my first language, in fact I find greater eloquence in the area where art and magic overlap. However, one of the more interesting gifts of the postmodern era is the bleed through, simultaneous cross-infection of art, science, religion, politics... it becomes a blessing and a curse, like the motto of the assassins, "nothing is true, everything is permitted", an ambiguous phrase, unless one possesses the key to its meaning. Some problems do arise when it appears that certain things are more or less true and others more or less permitted depending on the majority consensus. Chaos does not allow us to escape from belief by somehow transcending it, though it can illuminate processes and power structures of belief and their potential for bringing about real physical consequences in the world of things. With this in mind we apply magic to art - art to magic in a way that brings forth the synthesis of our inspiration and reason.
Because every act that is not sanctioned by the sanctimonious sub-lieutenants of the Synagogue of Satan [at no point do we confuse or conflate Satan with Lucifer here] is necessarily forbidden and therefore dangerous to the machinery of Mammon and its stranglehold on the planet we may find our best recourse, some of us, in chaopolitical esoterrorism.
The roots of what we suggest here can be found in such diverse works as Hakim Bey's "Poetic terrorism" and "Immediatism"(with its emphasis on "art as crime, crime as art" and its concerns regarding "the extent to which our very involvement in arts such as writing, painting, or music implicates us in a nasty abstraction, a removal from immediate experience.") and "the numinous way" of David Myatt with its emphasis on the "immorality of abstractions." These two distinct concepts by two very different authors attack a similar subject by very divergent means: Immediatism seeks to cause shock and awe through the exercise of unmediated play and insurrectionist actions, whereas the Numinous way seeks to develop the individual to a point where they no longer "meddle with things" or infringe upon the harmonious existence of others due to an addiction to abstractions which stands between them and the world of experience. We are not dealing here with a fully developed philosophy or ideology, but more with a dynamic, living process of self over-becoming, an active participatory relationship towards our connexion with nature and ourselves, a relationship which fosters "individual honour" and empathy by avoiding the abstract dislocation that occurs through the mediation of thought and action. To this end we must admit the existence of an occult war, a clash of dimensions that far exceeds culture or ideology... the religious wars of past times appear somewhat uncomplicated in comparison. The battlefield is no longer that of blood-soaked territories and the prevalence of superior fire-power, it is now the territory of the mind that we desperately struggle to control in the face of counter-intelligence, propaganda and every form of subversion of which the enemy may avail itself in order to control socio-political narratives, and further steer our very existence as a species ever closer to the chasm of irrevocable self-destruction. We are dealing with forces very much antithetical towards the human race and which conquer from within via the anesthesia produced by mass media and rampant consumerism.
Chaopolitical esoterrorism rejects the impotence of the unipolar Right/Left dichotomy that dictates the popular narrative in politics, it rejects the folly of all false divisions spawned by an outdated post-enlightenment vision of democracy, a democracy riddled with plague and cancerous usury at the hands of international finance. It sees the mismanagement of the planet by a conspiracy of imbeciles and prepares with meticulous attention to detail, to wage esoteric war on all fronts.