Where Lives and Souls are Traded
Following
on from my comments on JK Rowling in which I posited an unwholesome connection
between the occult worlds of Potter, Twitter and trans-people, I note this
issue of how to define a trans-woman continues to entice necromantics to enter
the Twitter portal to that dark kingdom. And so, a certain Gillian Philip, an
author of children’s books, ‘bravely’ twitted a support for multi-millionairess
JK’s stance on trans people (surely hoping for a little JK love coming her way…and
some extra sales), only to find that she had entered shadowland. Witchy powers swiftly
whirled around her publisher and she found herself just as swiftly sacked. Any
doubts about trans issues makes you a hater, you see; say those doubts out loud,
makes you unemployed! Any hoodoo protection Gillian was hoping to get from JK, playing
the good witch Glenda in this story, alas never arrived. Still, lots of attention as both
persecutor and victim in that nether reality–
such validation is like oxygen to a woman.
This
particular incident, surely one of many connected to JK’s original trans comments,
reinforces, I believe, the occult aspect I referred to in my original post.
This world really presents as an alternative reality; a darker, manic, trickster
version of our living world. One which doesn’t physically exist as such, but
still has the sorcery power to drive people mad and result in actual job loss. This
point leads me back to my original article and its concern for the effect of the
occult world on JK’s young readers.
Unlike,
say, Enid Blyton, whose social opinions were invisible and irrelevant to her
readers, JK’s are highly visible. Intentionally so! And many of her fans are
inevitably fated to become followers of her pronouncements and thusly led into
her digital world of opinion, conflict and abuse – and doing so while still
children. Here they will find in real form all the dark arts described in JK’s novels;
pontificating, real hatreds, secret enemies, implacable opinions and plots to
destroy lives. This doesn’t have to be sought out, it is part and parcel of her
life as a sorceress-author. And, by extension, the lives of her young fans who
follow this.
It
is my contention that this association of JK’s young fans and the social media
world is not appropriate, far less uplifting. These crazy disputes, in addition
to all the other junk content of Twitter and the like, provide a damaging
template of how adults conduct themselves. Who would want their child being
exposed to this?
JK,
of course, did not invent social media and is entitled to her opinions, but I wonder
if she has overlooked the responsibility that should come with being an author
of children’s books. This should have
entailed maintaining a certain distance between this problematic digital world and her
young readers. There are ways she could have done this.
She
chose not to. And I wonder, then, if in that mystery realm where lives and souls
are traded, this was the deal she made. What think ye?
Meph...But,tell me,Faustus,shall i have thy soul?
ReplyDeleteAnd i will be thy slave,and wait on thee,
And give thee more than thou hast wit to ask.
Faust.Ay mephistophilis I give it thee.
Indeed!
ReplyDeleteI’m not sure if I’m suggesting JK struck a deal in the literal sense, similar to that of Faust referenced in your Marlowe quote. However, I’m not sure that I’m discounting it either.
The more we find out about the unlikely nature of our existence, with other unknowable domains (for want of a better word) somehow part of the physical whole, who’s to know if somehow, somewhere, one’s soul willingly trades for fame the only thing it owns?
Thanks to the internet, we now know as a fact just how venal Hollywood and the entire global entertainment world is. Pay to play is just the physical manifestation of a much more dangerous and losing deal.
Jeffrey Epstein could tell us about that, if he hadn’t became dead, somehow.