This is a "remix" of the video i posted a few months back of the riots in Manchester. Using the song from the current Christmas John Lewis advert.
I was also reading a William Blake poem the other day and came across the following words which also reminded me of the bit of footage attached.
Taken from the Poem " The Mariage of Heaven and Hell". (Massively Abridged Version)
Now the sneaking serpent walks In mild humility ; And the just man rages in the wilds Where Uons roam. Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burdened air, Hungry clouds swag on the deep... ...Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, rea-
son and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. From these contraries spring what the religious call Good and Evil.
Good is the passive that obeys reason;Evil is the active springing from Energy. Good is heaven. Evil is hell. That man has two real existing principles, viz., a Body and a Soul. That Energy, called Evil, is alone from the Body ; and that Reason, called Good, is alone from the Soul. That God will torment man in Eternity for following his Energies. But the following contraries to these are true : — Man has no Body distinct from his Soul. For that called Body is a por-
tion of Soul discerned by the five senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age. Energy is the only life , and is from the Body; and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.Energy is Eternal Delight. Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place and governs the unwilling. And being restrained, it by degrees becomes passive, till it is only the
shadow of desire. And the original Archangel or pos-sessor of the command of the heavenly host is called the Devil, or Satan, and his children are called Sin and Death. For this history has been adopted by both parties. It indeed appeared to Reason as if desire was cast out, but the Devil's
account is, that the Messiah fell, and formed a heaven of what he stole from the abyss.
To conclude I have included the above section of the poem because it really does seem to resonate with the goings on shown in the video. You wittness the bursting forward of energy, the expression of desire. That same desire described in the lyrics of the John Lewis advert which ironically has been used to promote consumerisim and further creating the desire to form "a heaven from" what is stolen from "the Abyss".
