#j g ballard
Society- the conscious mind’s push to evolve the subconscious?
Our unconscious urges and imagination are the driving forces of our overall nature, but when we confront them, they can seem completely strange to us. The unmitigated primal quality behind the social self seems uncivilised and uncultivated. Our higher self must indeed have a profound part to play in channelling our raw nature into the nature we know and experience.
J G Ballard’s book The…
Tom Hiddleston reads an excerpt from Extreme Metaphors- Interviews with J G Ballard featuring an interview with the author from Search & Destroy; first published in 1978.
Get the book here, read the original article here and check out the transcript of the snippet Tom reads below and see just how incredibly well Ballard predicts the growth and changes of our relationship with technology:
It was inevitable, really. Two inexorable forces tend to be like that, the stubborn bastards. Collision courses without the option for aversion, because both of you are so wonderfully oblivious to the catastrophic event up ahead. Don’t bother tooting your horn, because I’m far too busy listening to Cake at full volume to ever hear you, concerned onlooker. I’m afraid this vehicle is going to be a write off.
Chassis on chassis, my claws digging into your bodywork, until we’re just a mess of fused metal and burning rubber. It doesn’t matter who hit who (I hit you), because we’re just as stuck on one another as each other. You’re not getting away, and I can’t get free, either. A ball of wreckage hurtling down the tarmac, both courses changed irrevocably.
I couldn’t be happier to be wreckage with you.
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