Visiting London in the week that the rand hit 19 to the Pound was nerve-wracking. Tuna sandwiches from Marks & Spencer suddenly cost R60, the summer dress I bought on sale for an emergency garden party turned into the sort of fashion splurge I envy lawyers for, and worst of all, the book stores at Frieze Fair — the art fair to begin and end all art fairs — became just about inaccessible on my silly writer’s budget. I hear the rest of the world, all in London last weekend to attend Frieze, felt the pinch too (although the trails of Porsches and Jaguars surrounding Regents Park, where the fair was held, suggest otherwise). Artwork prices at Frieze were astronomical as expected and works flew off the prefabricated walls on days one and two. But on days three and four, purses snapped shut, gallerists began to frown and artist Norma Jeane’s smoker’s booth filled up with anxious puffers.
According to Yoko Ono, however, things can’t possibly be so bad. And even if they are, the solution is simple: make love not war. Ono was invited to deliver a keynote lecture at this year’s Frieze on the enduring legacy of her performance art of the 1960s and 1970s. The promise of seeing Yoko in the flesh just about lured me to London — not that I’m a great fan of Yoko per se, but because of her connection to the Fluxus movement, of which I am a great fan. George Maciunas and Nam June Paik, ostensibly the movement’s two most prominent figures, have both passed on to the giant magnetised TV in the sky. So I am left having to settle for Yoko Ono.
To my dismay, she said nothing about Fluxus (I had no idea just how “reluctant” a member of the movement she was). In fact, she said almost nothing at all. She began her “lecture” with the sort of performance that puts people off performane art — she had some blindfolded, topless young man muscled onto the stage by an assistant. She then made him stand on a blank canvas and bullied him into thinking he had destroyed a thing of value. After she dismissed him she screened a video on her latest global intervention project, the Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland and its portable equivalent, the Onochord. The Image Peace Tower is a light sculpture that beams vertically into Iceland’s cloudy sky over Reykjavik. The idea was originally John Lennon’s (although Iceland was probably not his preferred location), a fact that Ono doesn’t let us forget throughout the video. The whole thing is laced with unnecessary shots of the couple and of Lennon’s iconic mug, and is set to blaring snippets of the song Imagine. I distinctly had the sense that Ono was trying bizarrely to vindicate herself of charges of having ruined John Lennon and sponging off his Beatles fame, by doing precisely that — sponging off his fame.
Between shots of Ono in construction gear overseeing the installation of the Imagine Peace Tower and Lennon’s penetrating gaze, we have an introduction to the Onochord project, Ono’s global effort to spread love, peace and harmony in trying times — through the twinkling of torches. The Onochord is a plastic torch about the size of a cigarette, attached to a handy key ring, and it is meant to be flashed at other people — your lover, your mother, the Metro cop who pulls you over for unpaid fines — so that they will know that you love them. Ono was not sparing in her demonstration of how the Onochord works. It clearly needed much explaining that the designated numerical sequence of flashes (one flash, two flashes, three flashes) means “I love you”. See a video demonstration here.
The point of both the Imagine Peace Tower and the Onochord is to spread “love”, and for Ono, erotic love, filial affection, anxiety, rage and indifference seem to blur into one vague sentiment that can be encapsulated in a flickering light. Her rationale for the intervention? “Art is better than making war machines. You are either in the war industry of in the peace industry. We are all in the peace industry and shouldn’t criticise how each other do [sic] it. … Art is action and we do it and we can change the world.” Indeed.
Ono also offered a slice of global political analysis, which was just about my favourite part of the whole talk. She observed, “Before, the whole world was on the brink of something bad. But now we are on the threshold of a new age.” This was punctuated by a bit of torch-flashing: “So, I … [flash] … love … [flash, flash] … you! [flash, flash, flash]“.
Each member of the audience was given their very own Onochord, which I now carry around attached to my car keys in the hope that I might be able to sublimate my road-rage into happy twinkles. Maybe she could send a couple more over for Lekota and Zuma and their respective supporters, and we could all just get along.
The Elite(Illuminati)orchestrated the global econcomic collape to usher in their solution to a condition they created as revealed in their internet-available movies (Zeitgeist and Zeitgeist Addendum, free for internet viewing worldwide in many languages.
Zeitgesit Addendum, blaming U.S. bankers for the global economic crisis (when they are controlled by European Bankers), was timed to be released in October 2008 at the onset of their planned economic meltdown, blamed on the U.S. government as a corporation that
is exploiting third-world countries with created debt that increases their poverty.
This, in turn, “justifies” the takeover of the U.S. with U.N. troops and the dismantling of U.S. Constitutional law with its attendant freedoms.
Thus “The Elite” provide a “need” for a Venus Project “solution” of a resource-based world without money debt or law enforcement, that is controlled by a chip-implanted population
(which they fail to mention) who “would share all resources equally” with non-polluting renewable energy.
This insidious plan of human domination is contigent on a worldwide rejection of a Creator, a theme of Zeitgeist, the movie.
The true intent is revealed by Comments on the Zeitgeist website that “tracking is a natural progression” and belief in a Creator is nonfunctional plus an attempt to downplay Revelation 13 warnings against “mark of the beast” buying and selling controls.
The one-world control “Elite” have made their intentions quite clear.
The Messenger
This fascinated me:
the “summer dress I bought on sale for an emergency garden party”
Fascinatin’. Myself I’ve never once attended one.
An emergency garden party.
I’m so curious – Do tell us more about that, rather than poor old Yoko Posh.
Yes, nothing quite says ‘I Love You’ like retinal irritation. The Onochord might cause retinal disorders, proving finally that love really is blind.
This Onochord sounds fascinating. Would Ono have us believe that it is constructed somewhat differently to a regular torch? Presumably out of lightsaber components?
Your “followers” are rather “intriguing” too, especially the likes of “Darrell” who has me “wondering” if quotation “marks” also serve as textual tinfoil “hats.” Perhaps you can “enlighten” us by the power vested in you as “wielder” of the Onochord?
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