Thursday, December 20, 2007

Poetry originates from a virus given to us by god

I'm going to make a little collaboration between authors.

William S. Burroughs famously said:
Language is a virus from outer space.

The bible starts:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Let's nail these two ideas together.
If god is the word, and we all have the word in us, then we are all gods. The word became the first advanced component of human communication, allowing humans to mutually understand one another's internal thoughts. Language then, has provided the evolutionary fuel of human progress, culturally and technologically. If Dear Father Burroughs is correct in language as a virus, then it has materialized civilization's severance with a natural utopia of primal ignorance.

If language is a virus, then god is a virus. Our ability to comprehend language gives each of us an internal belief that we are gods; above, and able to control and manipulate the natural world. In fact, if our genetics go far enough we will be playing the God role.
I always think of language as an addiction of utility. You can't go a day without it, you use it with everyone you know, you always needs more to 'understand', it is every where and forced within culture.

So language is both an addiction and virus that allows us to believe ourselves to be gods and comes to us from god, possibly somewhere in outer space, above us.

Now to erect the theory, and make one poetic addition: Vicente Huidobro's Creationism.
Huidobro quickly disagrees with surrealist automatism and unconscious explorations. He believes that the poet enters a heightened state of intention where they funnel an enormity of creative energy into potential art. He says that poet's enter a delirium when writing. This delirium is contingent to good poetry.

What if... these deliriums are an effect of the virus. Certain people are plagued worse by this virus than others, poets and authors of course suffering most.

So, Language is a virus which infects humans with a god-complex, by expanding the symbolic detail of our world understandings, and infects certain people with states of delirium in which they are forced to use words in new ways.

A lot of 'if' statements.
Comment if you think that makes sense or not.

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