Horror films have been considered as garbage for many years. However, recently, a part of cinema critics has started to reevaluate some works of the genre, generally, when there’s a clear intellectual content, that can be classified, more or less, “politically correct”. I humbly notice that true fears are fears, and are mostly out of the control of rational mind. In my opinion, fears are not the lowest feelings of mankind, differently, are sorts of inner alarms, rooted into the main archetypes, such as survival instinct. However, the raising complexity of societies is sometimes exceeding the limits of natural, inner alarms. Moreover, human brains have a certain capacity of elaboration, that can give tangled results, not directly covered by elementary, unborn instincts. In case of fears originated from artificial situations, perhaps it’s more appropriate to talk about “worries”, although the elements of mere fears can be included. For instance, some conspiracy theories correspond to largely spread worries, and include various, primordial fears. The usefulness of conspiracy theories is giving a helping hand to your inner alarms, by affirming that evil imagination can beat archetypal mechanisms.
As you can understand, the page is dedicated to new fears, rooted into artificial contexts, and created by mental elaborations. A banal example: nuclear bombs, that can start nuclear wars. Are there common elements to unify the new fears? It is the question that I would like to answer. First, something in the matter of craziness. Some horror films are excellent, because can show that a pathologic ego is extremely hard to be distinguished, and extremely dangerous. Unfortunately, mankind is still not able to objectively define the content of a normal, and healthy brain. To me, craziness might be even a rebellion towards the many limitations of being human, either personal or social. I explain my point of view. Well, it can happen that you don’t accept your social role. When you dream another role, and attempt a social growth, licit and compatible to the rules of your context, you’re not crazy. Differently, when you strongly fight for another role, and don’t exclude any mean, including violence and destruction, I’m convinced that you’re always crazy, at least partly. Even when you’re sure to be perfectly normal. Alas my mentality is not the prevailing one, because criminals are not socially considered as crazy, and being anti-social is not employed as a parameter for measuring mental pathologies. Second, something in the matter of elitism. I think to be a common person, and I see that any individual is unique, not repeatable, and irreplaceable, so that my dignity is equal to the one of any other humans. Nevertheless, there are persons, sometimes with a reputation of a genius, or of a VIP, who think to be uncommon, and can’t see in other individuals any preciosity, that is worth to be respected. In some cases, disrespect is the first step towards physical annihilation. Pity that elitism, that’s highly dangerous on a social level, is largely spread, and largely supported by cultures. Third, the conclusion: evil is a companion of some kinds of fears, and comes from disrespect. When you don’t respect yourself, exactly like you respect other humans, you become a stranger to mankind. With other words, a disrespectful behavior is able to awake the archetypal fear of strangers, bound to the survival instinct. In effect, no cruelty can be excluded, when you feel a stranger to yourself.
After having talked about what is bringing you in a funk, I offer some more funk, this time classic and danceable.
File name “in a state of funk, by Max Look DJ (July 2024)”, 1 hour 20’ and 40” of classic funk from the 70’s and the 80’s.
More funk, the playlist:
Odyssey – easy come easy go (1977)
Big City Band – a little bit funky (1977)
Timmy Thomas – touch to touch (1977)
Valentine Brothers – money’s too tight (to mention) (1982)
Cubby St. Charles – party (1979)
B.B. Cunningham, Jr. – let it all hang out again (1975)
Barbara Joyce – do it 'till you're satisfied (1983)
Hot Chocolate – heaven is in the back seat of my Cadillac (1976)
Ray Munnings – funky Nassau (1979)
Hamilton Bohannon – me and the gang (1978)
Mid Air – ease out (1983)
Gwen Guthrie – it should have been you (1982)
Baby 'O – in the forest (1980)
Kongas – Africanism/gimme some loving (1977)
