The Guardians

'The Guardian' was a movie appropriately released in 1984.

It starred Louis Gossett Jr and Martin Sheen, and it was about a New York apartment block security guard, hired by its residents, who all begin to resent some of his intense, overbearing methods, even though originally they had hired him because of a dire need for protection. The movie 'resolves' into an ending in which the residents 'come to terms' with the necessity of having a no-nonsense security guard to protect them, even though they do so reluctantly.

The proposition from the writers of the movie is that it is all eventually to do with 'the necessity of...'

'The Guardian'
Louis Gossett Jr., and Martin Sheen.

So. This is one 'cultural vision' from the Eighties which was ever so slightly dark, though not yet completely pessimistic.

I don't recall the Eighties like that in reality at all. Yes there was street violence and city crime and lots of it too; loads of thuggery. 

Hey, even I myself was 'mugged' in Chicago, what am I saying?? 

But no, the 'vision' of life in this movie was a false vision. In fact it was the movies, largely, that were responsible for the whole trajectory of what happened next. And the drumbeat had been going on for a long time, probably begun with the startling 'Serpico' movie back in 1973; by the 'drumbeat' I mean this idea that underlying everything in society is this hidden dark underbelly of criminality, and corruption, and venality, and deceit and unworthy motives for everything.

Is this actual society, though? Or is it something that is being forced on top of people, because people are not like that, at heart...

Al Pacino, the actor who played whistle-blower cop Frank Serpico, once invited the real 'Serpico' to stay with him and he asked the cop why he had stepped forward to expose the corruption going on, to which Serpico replied: 'Well Al, I don't know. I guess I would have to say that it was because... ...if I didn't, who would I be when I listened to a piece of music?'

Now. My suggestion is that you listen to the whole entire piece of music in the video clip below, and tell me what your response is as you are watching it...

Major Eighties actress,
'on set.'

As for 'guardians' of anything, there are many kinds of guardians in this world. Some are really obvious, because they have the uniform or the halo around about them. And yes there are some that offer viable solutions regarding solving the problems in your life and in mine. But I am certain that you will find the 'Earth-bound' and 'realistic' ones all involve you having to compromise with something; give things up.

You don't have to tell me, or tell anyone, but ask yourself who you are when you listen to a piece of music...

That will tell you all you need to know. But, oddly, it will open doors that you are best off not telling others about.

They'll think you are crazy.

See, because they're all realistic, and they know things better than you do; always. Next article, I will likely post some 'smiles on faces...' ...of people who know something and they aint' telling other people what (they know).

But you'll know. Or at least, you will perceive a vague shadowy figure moving down there in the deep layers -, a shadow that you also know is not 'representative of,' but a signal of, something quite real and not really 'a shadow' at all.

This was my Eighties... 

Recently, in the alt Right media, we have seen references to the release of the Kraken. ('Kraken' means 'crooked' or horrid, not beautiful... ; ) Beware the 'twilight language,' my friends on this one...) This mythological figures comes, as you know, from Norse mythology. The real 'sea monster' from the Odin cycle myths of Snorri Sturluson, is about 'Jormungandr.' Without giving away far far too much, the real 'Jormungandr' is the so-called Oort cloud, which surrounds the Earth and prevents too many astral objects from coming down here and smashing into the planet. According to the occult versions of the Norse narrative, when this 'celestial serpent' opens its mouth and lets go of its own tail, this will herald the beginning of the Ragnarok.

And then -, only then, will the Kraken appear, having entered into our world from some external place.

In the book by the highly prophetic English science fiction writer John Wyndham, 'the Kraken Wakes,' it is the arrival of presumed aliens, and who start to disturb the deepest parts of the oceans, that makes for the appearance of the Kraken.

Who knows, right?

I don't know anything about 'Krakens.' I do know about guardians, however. And you will never see those. Unless they let you.

Real proper 'over-the-ear' headphones, or big speakers - not some trashy tinny-sounding speakers, please!!