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Post by ensenada on Jul 31, 2005 0:41:00 GMT
This is one of my favourites out of the lords and new creatures, which i read again last night.
[glow=red,2,300]The Lords appease us with images. They give us books, concerts, galleries, shows, cinemas. Especially the cinemas. Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement. Art adorns our prison walls, keeps us silent and diverted and indifferent.[/glow]
an amzing account of what has actually happened in our societies and its been occuring for a while now. but jim couldnt have put it down in words better than he d here i reckon. we are surrounded by forms of art that keep us sweet so we can hopefully ignore all the shit the givernments do....."theres a war in iraq" fuck it who cares? we got the new x box game.....lets go and see that new film.....who cares about reality? we are being ade numb to the world and its realities. of course this may be no big conspiracy....they are artists that create them...after all the doors themselves created art that had the ability to distract people from their everyday lifes and pain....
but i think the main warning here, is that we could become apathetic to the world around us, so when something really needs to be done against the fascists that could slowly take over...we just cant be bothered and would rather watch someone live their lives on big fuckin brother, cos we aint got our own lifes...
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Post by stuart on Jul 31, 2005 11:17:05 GMT
The Authorities use distraction to keep you from paying close attention to the things that really matter imo.
Indeed Jim was spot on with that quote:)
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jul 31, 2005 12:17:11 GMT
Yes he was a very perceptive chap was old Jim.....which is why he probably wanted out of the music biz back in 69.....but he was trapped in the prison of his own devise.....bet there were time he wished he'd become an accountant!  |
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Post by jym on Jul 31, 2005 17:27:03 GMT
Don't forget in a later interview (Bob Chorush? John Carpenter?) Jim said that the idea of the lords has become the opposite in his mind, but he didn't elaborate.
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Post by ensenada on Jul 31, 2005 17:49:06 GMT
perhaps he suddenly thought he was a calaborator to the distracting of the masses!
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Post by stuart on Jul 31, 2005 20:03:06 GMT
The Tony Thomas Interview with jim Rick, deals with quite a fair bit about his poetry and jim's views on living and society if i remember correctly.
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Post by jym on Jul 31, 2005 20:55:18 GMT
perhaps he suddenly thought he was a calaborator to the distracting of the masses! Rick, I think that's a pretty good assesment because he also said at seeing Feast of Friends film that there was a whole bunch of elements going on that he wasn't aware of & he was reacting to them without being concious of them at the time (sorry about the paraphrasing). |
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Post by ensenada on Aug 1, 2005 17:03:11 GMT
do you know what sort of stuff he was recating to on a subconscious level?
thing is with bands like the doors and artists like the doors....they do not add to the distraction, they enhance life and even help with life. and they even make us aware of things going on...
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Aug 2, 2005 9:26:54 GMT
We all say things when we are young that on reflection turn out to be bollocks. Jim was a niave young hippy in 1965 living on a roof writing about his view of the world and then after becoming famous he saw that it was all not quite as rosy as he thought and revised that view a bit. He was pragmatic as well as being perceptive.  |
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Post by wally on Feb 1, 2009 9:29:07 GMT
The interesting thing is that The Lords do not come to power by force, conquest or the will-to-power [as Nietzsche's 'Lords of the Earth' do, a clear influence], but they insinuate themselves by stealth.
They draw their strength from our own "sloth and cowardice".
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jun 17, 2011 14:55:21 GMT
The interesting thing is that The Lords do not come to power by force, conquest or the will-to-power [as Nietzsche's 'Lords of the Earth' do, a clear influence], but they insinuate themselves by stealth. They draw their strength from our own "sloth and cowardice". This is very true and we have seen how The Lords have indeed insinuated themselves by stealth into this story. Jim's band mates are The Lords for me and this bunch have managed to manipulate time and space by means of retooling Doors History to present themselves as the poor victims of Jim Morrison who they portray as an ogre who bullied them and left them in fear causing them to break out in rashes. They have been so traumatised by Jim Morrison they can no longer do any actual work and are left having to live on the pittance brought in by their only ever real occupation. That of knowing someone for a few years who died and became famous.  It's such a sad case it makes you want to weep. |
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Nov 4, 2012 11:16:01 GMT
Fear the Lords who are secret amoung us.
The Lords w/ in us.
Born of sloth & cowardice
I am a guide to the labyrinth
Come & see me
in the green hotel
Rm. 32
I will be there after 9:30 p.m.
I will show you the girl of the ghetto
I will show you the burning well
I will show you strange people
haunted, beast-like, on the
verge of evolution
-Fear The Lords who are
secret among us
The Lords. Events take place beyond our knowledge or control. Our lives are lived for us. We can only try to enslave others. But gradually, special perceptions are being developed. The idea of the "Lords" is beginning to form in some minds. We should enlist them into bands of perceivers to tour the labyrinth during their mysterious nocturnal appearances. The Lords have secret entrances, and they know disguises. But they give themselves away in minor ways. Too much glint of light in the eye. A wrong gesture. Too long and curious a glance.
The Lords appease us with images. They give us books, concerts, galleries, shows, cinemas. Especially the cinemas. Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement. Art adorns our prison walls, keeps us silent and diverted and indifferent.
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Post by The Lords on Jun 14, 2014 11:45:23 GMT
the Lords are : OLIGARCHY
masters and slaves are the only reality ; and yes art is often distraction
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