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Linus Minimax
Feb 19, 2024, 1:11:41 AMFeb 19
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"Am I sorry for Booth and Oswald, pinks and cocaine too?"
-- Marilyn Manson, in the song 'Target Audience (Narcissus Narcosis)'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOwrhG7iJww
That's a Marshall McLuhan reference -- "I call this peculiar form of self-hypnosis Narcissus narcosis" (Playboy interview), also the title of chapter 4 of Understanding Media -- to the fact that we don't realize our technologies are extensions of ourselves
https://mcluhansnewsciences.com/mcluhan/2014/08/mcluhan-and-plato-4-narcissus/
Rev. MM has quoted Dr. MM a few times, especially in the 2015 single 'Deep Six' (deep 6ix?) which lifts several lines from McLuhan's introduction to the book 'Subliminal Seduction'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSCtrZkJWAs
https://mcluhangalaxy.wordpress.com/2016/08/30/media-ad-vice-marshall-mcluhans-introduction-to-subliminal-seduction-ad-medias-manipulation-of-a-not-so-innocent-america-1972/
Makes sense to me that he or anyone would be into both McLuhan & SubGenius, I already thought they went together very well since before I encountered purple. But it's quite suggestive, to me, that his reference to 'pinks' is in the song with the McLuhan-based title. And that the song ends with the lyric: "you're just a copy of an imitation".
Another song from the same era 'Astonishing Panorama Of The End Times' uses multiple phrases that appear in Revelation X ("quitter-god" and "THIS IS WHAT YOU SHOULD FEAR"); the band were happy to sign my Book of the SubGenius and clearly knew what it was, so it's very likely that 'pinks' is a SubGenius reference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWzbEut89w8
(the album title "mechanical animals" also appears in Revelation X but that's a less specific or unlikely phrase which was also iirc used by Wyndham Lewis at some point and probably others, I wouldn't presume to add it to a list of 'Revelation X references')
Anyway, I wonder about Rev. Manson's impressions of purple.
(I noticed he also broke a long silence to post something on the 14th)
I wouldn't presume to call him a SubDeanie just because he digs SubGenius AND McLuhan -- for all I know he hates purple more than anyone else for exactly that reason!
...
I am also unsure about that other prominent SubDeanie, for very different reasons.
But I'm less interested in hearing from him. He said more than enough already.
-- Marilyn Manson, in the song 'Target Audience (Narcissus Narcosis)'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOwrhG7iJww
That's a Marshall McLuhan reference -- "I call this peculiar form of self-hypnosis Narcissus narcosis" (Playboy interview), also the title of chapter 4 of Understanding Media -- to the fact that we don't realize our technologies are extensions of ourselves
https://mcluhansnewsciences.com/mcluhan/2014/08/mcluhan-and-plato-4-narcissus/
Rev. MM has quoted Dr. MM a few times, especially in the 2015 single 'Deep Six' (deep 6ix?) which lifts several lines from McLuhan's introduction to the book 'Subliminal Seduction'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSCtrZkJWAs
https://mcluhangalaxy.wordpress.com/2016/08/30/media-ad-vice-marshall-mcluhans-introduction-to-subliminal-seduction-ad-medias-manipulation-of-a-not-so-innocent-america-1972/
Makes sense to me that he or anyone would be into both McLuhan & SubGenius, I already thought they went together very well since before I encountered purple. But it's quite suggestive, to me, that his reference to 'pinks' is in the song with the McLuhan-based title. And that the song ends with the lyric: "you're just a copy of an imitation".
Another song from the same era 'Astonishing Panorama Of The End Times' uses multiple phrases that appear in Revelation X ("quitter-god" and "THIS IS WHAT YOU SHOULD FEAR"); the band were happy to sign my Book of the SubGenius and clearly knew what it was, so it's very likely that 'pinks' is a SubGenius reference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWzbEut89w8
(the album title "mechanical animals" also appears in Revelation X but that's a less specific or unlikely phrase which was also iirc used by Wyndham Lewis at some point and probably others, I wouldn't presume to add it to a list of 'Revelation X references')
Anyway, I wonder about Rev. Manson's impressions of purple.
(I noticed he also broke a long silence to post something on the 14th)
I wouldn't presume to call him a SubDeanie just because he digs SubGenius AND McLuhan -- for all I know he hates purple more than anyone else for exactly that reason!
...
I am also unsure about that other prominent SubDeanie, for very different reasons.
But I'm less interested in hearing from him. He said more than enough already.
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