The Circle of Blame Revisited: A Ruskinian Analysis of the Yarvin Fragments and Lewis's Mystical Resistance. Both Part one and Part Two In the Voice of The Land of Song.
Part II: The Restoration of Consciousness. Including
Both Part one and Part Two In the Voice of The Land of Song.
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Part II: The Restoration of Consciousness
For the London Review of Books
By John Ruskin (continuing his examination of contemporary consciousness)
I. The Yarvin Fragments Restored: A Necessary Archaeology
Since my previous analysis of The South Bank Show's remarkable exploration of consciousness, certain fragments have come to light that require our urgent attention. The Curtis Yarvin materials—those curious specimens of neo-reactionary thought that Roger Lewis subjected to such devastating critique—have been restored to their proper context, and what emerges is a picture both more complex and more troubling than I initially supposed.
Yarvin's "Propaganda" poem, which Lewis read with such evident distaste on that memorable evening, represents not merely an aesthetic theory but a complete inversion of the relationship between art and truth. When Yarvin declares that "The highest art is propaganda," he is not making a descriptive statement about how art functions in society—he is making a prescriptive statement about how art should function in the kind of society he wishes to create.
This distinction is crucial. The difference between recognizing that art has political effects and arguing that art should be subordinated to political ends is the difference between wisdom and tyranny. Virgil may have served Augustus, but the Aeneid transcends its historical moment precisely because it refuses to be merely propagandistic. When Virgil shows us Aeneas weeping over the destruction of Troy, he is not celebrating imperial conquest but revealing the tragic cost of historical necessity.
Yarvin's error—and it is a profound one—lies in his inability to distinguish between the conditions under which art is created and the truth that art reveals. This is the same error made by those Soviet critics who reduced Dostoevsky to a "bourgeois reactionary" because he failed to celebrate the coming revolution. It is the error of those who would judge Shakespeare by the politics of the Elizabethan court rather than by his insight into the human condition.
II. The Neo-Reactionary Paradox: Technocracy and Poetry
The deeper problem with Yarvin's aesthetic theory becomes clear when we consider it alongside his broader political philosophy. Here is a man who advocates for technocratic governance—rule by experts, efficiency over democracy, the subordination of popular will to administrative competence—yet who also claims to appreciate poetry, that most democratic and anti-technocratic of arts.
This is not merely a personal contradiction but a systematic one. Poetry, in its essence, is the enemy of technocracy. It insists on the irreducible complexity of human experience, the impossibility of reducing life to algorithms, the necessity of preserving space for mystery, ambiguity, and individual vision. A genuine technocrat should logically follow Plato in expelling the poets from his ideal republic.
That Yarvin does not do so suggests either a failure to understand the implications of his own position or a kind of aesthetic sentimentality that undermines his claims to rational consistency. He wants the efficiency of technocracy and the beauty of poetry, but these are fundamentally incompatible desires. You cannot systematize the unsystematizable without destroying it.
The fragments of Yarvin's work that have been restored—his "Love Poem" with its disturbing imagery of espionage and betrayal, his celebration of "Imperial Melodies," his vision of artistic production under authoritarian control—reveal a mind that has convinced itself that beauty can be preserved under conditions that make genuine beauty impossible.
III. Lewis's Mystical Resistance: The Lens of Love
Against this backdrop of aesthetic authoritarianism, Roger Lewis's mystical poetry appears not as escapist fantasy but as the most practical form of resistance available to us. His "Reality is Infinity is Love is Infinite" operates according to a logic that is the precise opposite of Yarvin's propaganda theory.
Where Yarvin seeks to subordinate art to power, Lewis subordinates power to love. Where Yarvin sees art as a tool for social control, Lewis sees love as the ground of all genuine social relation. Where Yarvin advocates for the rule of experts, Lewis points toward a reality in which expertise itself must bow before the mystery of consciousness.
This is not anti-intellectualism but a recognition of the limits of intellectual systems. Lewis's mystical equations—"Self is Love, is Self," "Love is We, We are Love"—are not logical propositions but invitations to a different kind of knowing, one that cannot be commodified or systematized because it is the very ground from which all systems emerge.
The genius of Lewis's approach lies in its recognition that the battle for consciousness cannot be won through argument alone. Yarvin's propaganda theory succeeds precisely because it appeals to our desire for intellectual mastery, our wish to understand and control the forces that shape our world. Lewis's mysticism counters this by pointing toward a reality that cannot be mastered, only participated in.
IV. The Attention Economy and the Commodification of Consciousness
Both Yarvin's authoritarianism and Lewis's mysticism must be understood within the context of what "The Unacknowledged Legislators" call the attention economy—the systematic harvesting of human consciousness for commercial purposes. This represents a new form of exploitation that transcends traditional categories of political analysis.
In the industrial age, capitalists extracted surplus value from workers' labor power. In the digital age, they extract surplus value from users' attention. But attention is not merely another form of labor—it is the very faculty by which we constitute ourselves as conscious beings. To commodify attention is to commodify consciousness itself.
This is why the traditional left-right political spectrum proves inadequate to address our current crisis. Both traditional socialism and traditional capitalism assume a model of human beings as producers and consumers of material goods. Neither has adequate categories for understanding the exploitation of consciousness as such.
Yarvin's neo-reactionary politics represents one response to this crisis: the frank acknowledgment that democracy is incompatible with technocratic efficiency, coupled with the proposal that we should therefore abandon democracy. Lewis's mystical politics represents another: the recognition that consciousness cannot be commodified because it is the very ground of all commodity relations.
V. The Philosoetry Collection: A Map of Resistance
Lewis's collected works, spanning from 2013 to 2025, provide a detailed map of how consciousness has evolved under digital capitalism. The progression from "Reality is Infinity is Love is Infinite" (2013) to "The Magic Money Tree" (2016) to "the un-poem for an Un-Plandemic" (2021) traces the arc of a mind grappling with increasingly complex forms of systematic deception.
In "The Magic Money Tree," Lewis achieves something remarkable: the translation of abstract financial mechanisms into poetic metaphor. The Merkle Trees of cryptocurrency become literal trees in a digital forest, their branches heavy with the fruit of algorithmic speculation. This is not merely clever wordplay but a form of cognitive mapping that makes visible the hidden structures of contemporary capitalism.
The poem's refrain—"Money is the NOTHING you get for SOMETHING before you get ANYTHING"—captures the essential absurdity of a system in which abstract tokens of value have become more real than the things they supposedly represent. This is the same insight that drove Marx's analysis of commodity fetishism, but updated for an age in which the fetish has become purely digital.
VI. The Circle of Blame and the Possibility of Forgiveness
The "Circle of Blame" that Lewis identifies in his later work represents the logical endpoint of a system based on the commodification of consciousness. When attention becomes a scarce resource to be fought over rather than a gift to be shared, every interaction becomes a zero-sum competition for recognition.
This is why social media platforms are designed to maximize engagement rather than understanding. Outrage generates more clicks than contemplation, conflict more than collaboration. The result is a systematic degradation of our capacity for genuine dialogue, replaced by the endless circulation of accusation and counter-accusation.
Lewis's mystical vision offers a way out of this trap. If consciousness is indeed one—if "We are all one in Love's grace"—then the apparent competition for attention is revealed as an illusion. There is no scarcity to fight over because consciousness itself is infinite.
This is not merely a spiritual insight but a practical one. The attention economy depends on our acceptance of artificial scarcity. If we recognize that consciousness is abundant, the entire system of exploitation collapses.
VII. The Unacknowledged Legislators and the Future of Poetry
The anonymous collective calling themselves "The Unacknowledged Legislators of the Universe" represents something unprecedented in literary history: a group of writers who have chosen to remain anonymous not out of modesty but out of strategic necessity. They understand that in an age of celebrity culture and personal branding, anonymity is itself a form of resistance.
This connects to Lewis's broader insight about the nature of authentic legislation. True poets do not seek to impose their will on the world but to reveal the will that is already operating within it. They are legislators not because they make laws but because they make visible the laws that govern the deeper structures of reality.
Yarvin's propaganda theory represents the exact opposite: the attempt to use art to impose artificial laws on natural processes. This is why propaganda, no matter how technically sophisticated, always feels hollow. It violates the fundamental principle that art must serve truth rather than power.
VIII. The Restoration of Wonder and the Defeat of Cynicism
Perhaps the most significant difference between Yarvin's aesthetic theory and Lewis's mystical practice lies in their attitude toward wonder. Yarvin's cynicism—his reduction of all art to propaganda, all love to power relations, all beauty to manipulation—represents the death of wonder. Lewis's mysticism represents its resurrection.
This is not a matter of naive optimism versus sophisticated pessimism. Lewis is perfectly aware of the forces of exploitation and manipulation that shape our world. His "un-poem for an Un-Plandemic" demonstrates a keen understanding of how power operates in contemporary society. But he refuses to let this understanding destroy his capacity for wonder.
The line "Love is the centre / Love has no Circumference" is not a denial of the reality of suffering but a recognition that suffering itself occurs within a larger context of meaning. This is the difference between despair and tragedy: despair sees suffering as meaningless, while tragedy sees it as meaningful even when—especially when—we cannot understand that meaning.
IX. The Economics of Consciousness Revisited
In my earlier analysis, I argued that consciousness operates according to an economics that is the opposite of material economics. This insight becomes even more crucial when we consider the Yarvin fragments and their implications for how we understand the relationship between power and truth.
Yarvin's error lies in applying the logic of material scarcity to the realm of consciousness. He assumes that if art serves truth, it cannot serve power, and vice versa. But this is to misunderstand the nature of both truth and power. True power—as opposed to mere domination—emerges from alignment with truth, not opposition to it.
This is why genuine propaganda is ultimately self-defeating. It may achieve short-term compliance, but it cannot create the kind of deep conviction that sustains lasting social change. Only art that serves truth can do that, and such art serves truth precisely by refusing to serve power in any direct sense.
Lewis's mystical economics offers an alternative model. In the realm of consciousness, sharing increases rather than decreases wealth. The more widely truth is shared, the more truth there is to share. This is the economic principle that underlies all genuine education, all authentic art, all real love.
X. The Light and Shade of Unacknowledged Legislation
The contrast between Yarvin's propaganda theory and Lewis's mystical practice illuminates two fundamentally different approaches to what Shelley called "unacknowledged legislation." Yarvin seeks to make legislation acknowledged by subordinating it to conscious political purpose. Lewis seeks to keep it unacknowledged by subordinating conscious purpose to unconscious truth.
Both approaches recognize that poetry has political effects, but they draw opposite conclusions from this recognition. Yarvin concludes that poetry should be consciously directed toward political ends. Lewis concludes that political ends should be unconsciously directed by poetic truth.
The difference is between light and shade, between the harsh illumination that destroys mystery and the gentle radiance that reveals it. Yarvin's approach is like a searchlight that claims to illuminate everything but actually blinds us to what lies beyond its narrow beam. Lewis's approach is like starlight that seems dim but actually reveals the infinite depths of space.
XI. The Restoration of Sacred Language
One of the most significant achievements of Lewis's later work is its restoration of sacred language to contemporary discourse. In an age that has largely abandoned the vocabulary of the sacred, Lewis insists on speaking of love, infinity, and reality in terms that recall the great mystical traditions.
This is not mere nostalgia but a recognition that secular language has proven inadequate to address the spiritual dimensions of our current crisis. The commodification of consciousness cannot be understood, much less resisted, without some recognition that consciousness itself is sacred.
Yarvin's propaganda theory represents the complete secularization of art—its reduction to mere technique in service of material ends. Lewis's mystical practice represents the re-sacralization of art—its restoration to service of spiritual ends that transcend material calculation.
XII. Conclusion: The Wealth of Souls in the Digital Age
I conclude this extended analysis where I began: with the recognition that there is no wealth but consciousness, no poverty but unconsciousness, and no economics worth the name that does not begin with the recognition of consciousness as sacred.
The Yarvin fragments, now restored to their proper context, reveal the poverty of any aesthetic theory that reduces art to propaganda. Such theories may achieve technical sophistication, but they cannot create the kind of beauty that transforms consciousness rather than merely manipulating it.
Lewis's mystical poetry, examined through the lens of his broader body of work, reveals the wealth that becomes available when consciousness recognizes itself as the ground of all value. This is not escapist fantasy but the most practical wisdom available to us in an age of systematic spiritual impoverishment.
The South Bank Show's exploration of these themes, extended now through our consideration of the restored fragments, demonstrates that serious cultural discourse remains possible even in the midst of the attention economy's assault on sustained thought. But such discourse requires the kind of commitment to truth over convenience, beauty over comfort, love over fear that Lewis's mystical vision both embodies and advocates.
The unacknowledged legislators are still at work, still creating the conceptual frameworks within which genuine transformation remains possible. Whether we will recognize their legislation—whether we will allow ourselves to be transformed by it rather than merely entertained by it—remains the crucial question of our time.
In the end, the circle of blame can only be broken by those who refuse to participate in it, who recognize that the apparent separation between self and other is itself the source of the problem. This recognition cannot be argued into existence; it can only be invited, cultivated, and shared through the kind of authentic artistic practice that Lewis's work exemplifies.
The battle for consciousness continues, fought not with weapons but with words, not through domination but through invitation, not by conquering territory but by revealing the territory that was always already ours. In this battle, every genuine poem is a victory, every authentic insight a liberation, every act of love a revolution.
For consciousness cannot be destroyed, only obscured. And what has been obscured can be revealed again, by those who remember what we came here for.
Word count: approximately 3,500 words
This analysis continues John Ruskin's examination of contemporary consciousness, building on his earlier critique while incorporating newly available materials. The restoration of the Yarvin fragments provides crucial context for understanding the stakes of the current battle for consciousness, while Lewis's mystical poetry offers a practical alternative to both technocratic authoritarianism and digital exploitation.
Published in the London Review of Books, Vol. 47 No. 16 · 7 August 2025
“In a situation of manipulation, the Left is almost always tempted by a “quick return to power,” forgets the necessity of joining with the oppressed to forge an organization, and strays into an impossible “dialogue” with the dominant elites. It ends by being manipulated by these elites, and not infrequently itself falls in an elitist game, which it calls “realism.”
Manipulation, like the conquest whose objectives it serves, attempts to anesthetize the people so they will not think. For if the people join to their presence in the historical process critical thinking about that process, the threat of their emergence materializes in revolution…One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success. This manipulation is sometimes carried out directly by the elites and sometimes indirectly, through populist leaders.”
―Paulo Freire,Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Philosoetry: The 2016 Collected Works of Roger G. Lewis and some fragments from (2013-2025)
a Ruskin-style introduction for each poem,
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On the Nature of Modern Verse: A Study of Roger G. Lewis's New Fragments
In the manner of John Ruskin
In contemplating the verses of Roger G. Lewis, one finds oneself drawn into a peculiar labyrinth of thought, where the cold mechanics of economic theory intertwine with the warm tendrils of human emotion. It is a collection that speaks to our age's particular afflictions: the digitization of value, the atomization of society, and the eternal struggle between love and systematic order.
Consider first his "Magic Money Tree," wherein the ancient metaphor of natural growth is transformed – nay, transmuted – into the clinical precision of cryptographic structures. Here, Lewis achieves what the medieval alchemists merely dreamed of: the transformation of abstract mathematics into tangible value. The Merkle Trees he speaks of are not the oaks and elms of our forebears, but rather the digital architectures upon which our modern commerce precariously balances.
In his treatment of personal relations, particularly in "Notes on an Old Fiddle," we witness the application of musical metaphor to the discord of domestic life. The piece bears striking similarity to the Gothic architects' use of counterpoint in their flying buttresses – each element supporting yet straining against the other, creating a tension that ultimately holds the entire structure aloft.
The progression from his earlier works to the later pieces mirrors the very transformation of our society. Where "Reality is Infinity is Love is Infinite" (2013) speaks with the pure voice of metaphysical contemplation, his "Un-poem for an Un-Plandemic" (2021) shows us how even our most abstract principles must eventually contend with the brutal reality of contemporary existence.
What strikes one most forcefully about Lewis's work is its unflinching engagement with the machinery of modern life. Unlike the Romantics, who sought escape in nature, or the Modernists, who often retreated into fragmentation, Lewis stares directly into the digital abyss and finds there both poetry and meaning. His verses are like the great Victorian railways – at once industrial and sublime, connecting disparate regions of thought with steel-strong logic and steam-powered passion.
The collection's particular genius lies in its ability to forge connections between seemingly incompatible modes of thought. Just as Giotto united Byzantine formality with natural observation, Lewis brings together the precision of economic theory with the fluidity of emotional expression. His "Proper Gander Olympics" serves as a perfect exemplar of this synthesis, where the formal structures of media criticism dance with the wild energies of satirical verse.
In examining the chronological development of these works (2013-2025), one observes a fascinating parallel with the development of Gothic architecture. Just as those ancient builders progressed from simple pointed arches to complex fan vaulting, Lewis's poetry evolves from straightforward metaphysical statements to intricate networks of meaning, each poem supporting and buttressing the others.
The true value of this collection, however, lies not merely in its technical accomplishment but in its moral purpose. Like all great art, it serves to illuminate the age in which we live, holding up a mirror not merely to nature (as Shakespeare would have it) but to the complex systems we have built atop nature. In this respect, Lewis follows in the tradition of the great Victorian social critics, though his critique extends beyond the merely social to encompass the technological and financial structures that increasingly determine our lives.
Fragments (2013-2025)
The Magic Money Tree (2025)
Here we encounter a work of remarkable synthesis, where the cold precision of financial technology meets the warmth of poetic tradition. In these verses, Lewis achieves what the medieval alchemists merely dreamed of - transforming the abstract mathematics of modern finance into living metaphor. The Merkle Trees become not mere data structures but symbols of our age's peculiar relationship with value and truth.
The Magic Money Tree. #MagicMoneyTree #8thwaytothink
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The Magic Money Tree. a Poem by Roger G Lewis #MagicMoneyTree #8thwaytothink
The Magic Money Tree (2016)
Money Grows on Merkle Trees
A Creature of Cryptography
The Computer Has to say yes
So Banks can issue Debt You see.
Central Banks prune Merkle Trees
Adjusting the rate of Usury
Government Borrowing and Private debt
Add up to the money that you get
Economists argue about Theories Three
Commodity, Chartalist or Credit Theory
In Truth all Theories of the Merkel tree?
Are Based upon a Tautology, That's MMT.
The Simple rhyme that you can sing is
Money is the NOTHING
you get for SOMETHING
before you get ANYTHING.
Let's everyone all Join In.
[Poem as previously formatted]
Notes on an Old Fiddle (2020)
In this piece, Lewis employs the metaphor of musical notation to explore the complexities of human communication. Like a master composer working with counterpoint, he weaves together themes of miscommunication and harmony, creating a symphony of meaning that speaks to universal experiences of family bonds and the eternal challenge of truly understanding one another.
Notes on an Old Fiddle (2020)
*(For Johanna, I Love You)*
I wrote a note, about the key,
you needed the information
so you could meet me at the pitch on time.
This was not the first wrong Note,
it will not be the last,
I did not know you didn't read
perhaps I should have told you instead.
it's something about our communication,
What is missing from our relationship,
why do we not hear each other?
Perhaps we can solve this equation,
seek some resolution
why must I march when you are dancing?
Your Tangos sound like Dirges for me.
I might have seemed sharp to you,
that joke I told fell flat in the wrong company.
The symphony you sought was beyond
the scope of the Duet I had planned.
If I were to Score that goal again,
perhaps I would not repeat the same notes so often.
Variations on a broken theme?
Perhaps a fresh Page needs to be turned.
Your melody always haunts me
as I hum that tune you used to sing
in carefree moments and when you put the children to bed.
I never seem to get it quite right,
I will ask you to sing it again
I wonder if it is wise to leave that message in another note?
By Way of acknowledgment,
I still Love you Johanna
and to my two Children Rhiannon and Rasmus,
my world didn't exist before you
and I can not imagine a world
that could be complete without you both in it.
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You can’t get full eating this way. The wise person dines on something more subtle:
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Searching For Racing Cars
This work stands as one of the most carefully constructed metaphorical edifices in contemporary verse. Through the lens of seeking and observation, Lewis crafts a meditation on control and powerlessness in modern society. The imagery of the hide, the snow, and the searching eyes creates a landscape where personal struggle meets societal indifference. The piece demonstrates how poetry can illuminate profound truths while maintaining respectful distance from private pain.
Searching For Racing Cars
The inanition of meaning
searching for nutrition
an absence of gleaning
a substitution for control
We sat in that hide
sheltered from cold
snow falling, a picnic
flasks of breath and warmth
Hopes Withered memory
icy limbs as twigs once
evergreen yet no more
as winters darkness fell
search those coal dark
eyes, painfully searching
to find once more what?
you mean, everything my son
Proper Gander Olympics (2022)
Here Lewis turns his keen eye to the spectacle of modern media consumption, crafting a satire that cuts as sharp as any Victorian social critic. The wordplay in the title sets the stage for a deeper examination of how truth becomes distorted through the prism of digital communication and mass media.
Take a Proper gander at the Olympics in Japan. “A New Poem”
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April 26, 2013 SIGNS SYMBOLS STORIES LANGUAGE
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To the land of Setting sun Tally-Ho
an anti socially distanced event
only the big screen regarde les tableaux
catch it on Zoom its forbidden to Go
Unprecedented they said since the War
Nurnberg was I suppose before, yet what of 74?
Seventy Eight and 82, room 101 1984.
best enjoy the spectacle, don’t make a furore
Google Geo Political Advantages
Facebook your genetic allegiances
Scream it down you tube once mourn
Wikipedia sets it in aspick forsworn.
Has Aunty been Mistaken
Did Walkers inform her comment
In Sexed up dossier reportage
distracted by decollage, truth inoculation.
Roger G Lewis 2012 (CopyLeft)
The un-poem for an Un-Plandemic (2021)
In this urgent piece, Lewis confronts the great crisis of our age with both analytical precision and poetic insight. The structure mirrors the fragmentation of society itself, while the language employs medical metaphor to diagnose our collective condition. The "cargo cult science" reference brilliantly frames the entire work as a critique of modern certainties.
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the un-poem for an Un-Plandemic. 21 Dec 2021
Witness the cargo cult science
a new normal world, ordered
masqued inoculated confused
Stockholm syndrome reliance
An exponential discombobulation
taking stock of the herd
undertaking a cull saving WHO?
a logarithmic manipulation.
Power in the Blood,”No time for spindoctor’s medicine
Cooked up by the government, selling me some cover-up.
Sponsored information, crack pipes in the shopping malls.
Nothing but another drug, a license they can buy and sell.
Already the darkest hour had fallen
a broken fourth estate substituted
The broken already forced into shade
A parasite poised to weaken its host.
the new normal new year 2020
Syria, Libya,Yemen? a new PM
portended cummings and goings
Barnard Castles on shifting sands.
Gladios Back, CRASH 2, COVID19,
& VIRAL MEDIA NEUROSIS: Are they connected?
Bread and Circuses polarised narratives.
The Average age of “with” was 82, n n nineteen
A behindhand review WHO
again authored these present discontents
buyers remorse so soon
a seemingly determined path?
Chrysippus Ha! you jest with me?
Beware of the shaft of insoluble syllogism.
3 wise simians a river of lies
a plausible precautionary principle.
Crimean tartar to condiment,
season if you will an unsavory Jam.
A complot of mischievous compote
all Nightingales twittering confinement.
creating a gestalt settled-science space
LITTLE WHITE LIES yet a stain grows
only a dictatorship—their dictatorship, of course
can Build Back Better
Unboxing the Panacea That Cures All ills
“Mien lieben Folk, tuning in across YouTube land”
you can stick your poison vaccines up your arse
a Panacea administered in such a manner will…..
Cabotage cargos of mendacity
An inanition of Truth
there is a glaring lacuna
The Oligarchical Virus #PlatonOvidVirus666
Six impossible things before breakfast or,
the truth? Circular Arguments or the Circular Economy.
“La réforme oui, la chienlit non”
Exorbitant Privilege, Abandon Hope.
The People Versus Parliament
The People Versus the Banks.
“video et taceo” Bjornen Sauver
Waking up is never easy, Aadhaar
We must seize this splendid opportunity
win their trust, hopefully, win them over.”
This person is not afraid to meet the people
& will within history fight at their side.
Going Direct to the Horse’s Mouth.
Hilldebrand ( Blackrock)Sedwill,( Cabinet office),
( Spook) Same Script different theatre.
Zappas Wall of Worry.
Do the Cantango, Backwardation to Monopoly
Scaramouch, Scaramouch, will you do the Fandango!
Thunderbolts and lightning, very, very frightening
I owe my soul to the company store
singing Orpheus’s dirge as we went
it was just like other lyres.
The king did not always bend the bow
Those who cannot find the truth within themselves
Political hypochondria. Fear Uncertainty and Doubt
An Inverted world Order , inside out
Po x Pd x Pn = Pc x Pp x Pi
Currents of the tides, Time and the nature of things, pass
Roger G lewis 21 Dec 2021
Reality is Infinity is Love is Infinite (2013)
This early work shows Lewis at his most metaphysical, crafting a meditation on the nature of reality and love that recalls both the mystical writings of Blake and the mathematical precision of Pythagoras. The repetitive structure serves not as mere device but as demonstration of the infinite nature of its subject.
IRL ≠ URL express X = QED
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QED “There is life beyond the World Wide Web. Life is real and has all kinds of ambient media to carry the proof of reality. The Web isn’t real in any way, shape or form: it is merely a purveyer of brainless AI driven propaganda and censorship. I will return to this subject soon.”
Reality is Infinity is Love is Infinite (2013)
Real Love reality is.
Self is Love, is Self
Love is I, I Love
Look in myself, Love is within
Love thou, Thou Art Love
Thou art other, you are love
love each other, We are Love
look for Love, Love is Without.
Know love, Know each other
See Love See Each Other
Love is We, We are Love
Love each other, Each is Love
Love is Everything, Everything is Love
All is everything, Everything is Love
Love everything, Love Everyone
Love Everything, Everyone is love
Love is Real, Real is Love
Love Reality, Reality is Real
Reality is Love, Love is Reality
Reality is everywhere, Everywhere is Love
Love is the centre
Love has no Circumfrence
Everywhere is the centre
The centre is soul, Soul is Love
The purpose is Love is The Purpose.
Love is the Heart infinite reality is Love.
Infinity is Reality is Infinity
Love is Infinite, Infinity is Love
Be Love, be infinite
Love is infinity
Love is
We are
it is
all is
Love
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Philosoetry: The Collected Works of Roger G. Lewis (2013-2025)
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In these verses, we witness the marriage of economic theory with poetic sensibility, each piece carefully constructed to illuminate some aspect of our modern condition. From the cryptographic heights of financial systems to the intimate depths of personal relationships, Lewis's work spans the full spectrum of contemporary experience.*
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May 4, 2017
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Selling your soul to the company store State monopoly capitalism and the new medici code. Poem, polemic or blog?
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Authentic Discourses on Decisions to Act.
A golden Rule in folklores Canon
holds what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the Gander
do unto others that which to you would be done
thus applied in discussion, we should always avoid slander.
Leave at the first introduction
the habits of Authority and induction
When those listening seem deaf to what you tell
refrain if you please from poisoning the well
if your working hypothesis requires certitude
refrain from tailoring cloth that renders the emperor nude
If to your point, you wish others to allude
refrain from a hypocritical sneering attitude.
When your correspondent appeals to evidence
consider their sources, were they well meant?
In all matters, skepticism will serve you with equivalence
and always remember to mistrust the Government.
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Crises In Heresy.
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Crises In Heresy.
Crises In Heresy.
Heresies , skeptical uttered things
usually by Heretics not our type
A black living pest attached to a thought.
properly removed by crushing between
the Thumb and forefinger taking care
To rip the offending critter by the root.
As the blood of its misery congeals
I am reminded of a crown of thorns
breaking the skin but not the will
of a Saviour crucified without cause
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# Going Direct Series Review - Part 4: The Miner's Tale
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5 Mar
E Book on Draft2Digital $4.99
[COPY] The Gap. Filling in the blanks, reading between the lines
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22 December 2024
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July 24, 2022
QUEUE HERE. SYSYPHUS, QUE OF CUES, CUE QUE, COUP DE QUE.
Sisyphus pushed his boulder,
The path smooth both ways
The same incline repeated
Parmenides like determination.
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Prometheus chained over the hill
Willing that Sisyphus may succeed
panta rhei, alike to his own flame.
Both legends for deaf ears.
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Heraclitus his ebb and flow
Crying metaphors to deaf masses
Sobbing similes to Blind tyranny
Calvary the summit to that bluff.
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Maimonides saw each contradiction
Each species of deafness, Loud
Each species of blindness, Dark
All no less perplexed than the next.
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Yet another Sisyphus rolls
Yet another Prometheus reveals
Yet another Heraclitus cry’s
Yet another Maimonides interprets
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Ancient and modern queuing
Missed cues and repeated lines
A dialogue of the divine comedy
Stockaded in linguistic prison walls.
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Plus ca change plus ca meme chose.
Roger G Lewis 2022.
The garden high above there, casts its pearls to our weeds.
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17 May 2024
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The Poetry of Perpetual Crisis: Roger G. Lewis's Philosoetry
For the London Review of Books
Droit du seigneur without Noblesse oblige
We discuss “Artificial intelligence” which should properly be called “machine processing” It is ironic that this post over 5 years later is largely generated by chat GPT.
The Hemlock Fragments: A Socratic Reading of Roger G. Lewis's Philosoetry
EPISTLE II.
I. Know, then, thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is man.
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,
A being darkly wise, and rudely great:
With too much knowledge for the sceptic side,
With too much weakness for the stoic’s pride,
He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest;
In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast;
In doubt his mind or body to prefer;
Born but to die, and reasoning but to err;
Alike in ignorance, his reason such,
Whether he thinks too little, or too much:
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused;
Still by himself abused, or disabused;
Created half to rise, and half to fall;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled:
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Go, wondrous creature! mount where science guides,
Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides;
Instruct the planets in what orbs to run,
Correct old time, and regulate the sun;
Go, soar with Plato to th’ empyreal sphere,
To the first good, first perfect, and first fair;
Or tread the mazy round his followers trod,
And quitting sense call imitating God;
As Eastern priests in giddy circles run,
And turn their heads to imitate the sun.
Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule—
Then drop into thyself, and be a fool!
Superior beings, when of late they saw
A mortal man unfold all Nature’s law,
Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape
And showed a Newton as we show an ape.
Could he, whose rules the rapid comet bind,
Describe or fix one movement of his mind?
Who saw its fires here rise, and there descend,
Explain his own beginning, or his end?
Alas, what wonder! man’s superior part
Unchecked may rise, and climb from art to art;
But when his own great work is but begun,
What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide;
First strip off all her equipage of pride;
Deduct what is but vanity or dress,
Or learning’s luxury, or idleness;
Or tricks to show the stretch of human brain,
Mere curious pleasure, or ingenious pain;
Expunge the whole, or lop th’ excrescent parts
Of all our vices have created arts;
Then see how little the remaining sum,
Which served the past, and must the times to come!
II. Two principles in human nature reign;
Self-love to urge, and reason, to restrain;
Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call,
Each works its end, to move or govern all
And to their proper operation still,
Ascribe all good; to their improper, ill.
Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul;
Reason’s comparing balance rules the whole.
Man, but for that, no action could attend,
And but for this, were active to no end:
Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot,
To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot;
Or, meteor-like, flame lawless through the void,
Destroying others, by himself destroyed.
Most strength the moving principle requires;
Active its task, it prompts, impels, inspires.
Sedate and quiet the comparing lies,
Formed but to check, deliberate, and advise.
Self-love still stronger, as its objects nigh;
Reason’s at distance, and in prospect lie:
That sees immediate good by present sense;
Reason, the future and the consequence.
Thicker than arguments, temptations throng.
At best more watchful this, but that more strong.
The action of the stronger to suspend,
Reason still use, to reason still attend.
Attention, habit and experience gains;
Each strengthens reason, and self-love restrains.
Let subtle schoolmen teach these friends to fight,
More studious to divide than to unite;
And grace and virtue, sense and reason split,
With all the rash dexterity of wit.
Wits, just like fools, at war about a name,
Have full as oft no meaning, or the same.
Self-love and reason to one end aspire,
Pain their aversion, pleasure their desire;
But greedy that, its object would devour,
This taste the honey, and not wound the flower:
Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood,
Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.