Shining over Mega Manila

Shining over Mega Manila

(Or "Again, featuring the Red Star and the Black Sun combined 

shining brightly over Manila")

"You may say that we want to move forward by reaching the stars, But in reality, we move forward by going deeper into the abyss."           

This may be the words this person remembered as he edited, or rather say "distorted" the entire urban landscape. For he, driven by what he read, what he seen, and the music he listened, it seems that he invoked something that can be described as nihilistic or revolutionary, as it disrupts or subverts the setting the system trying to invoke as "progress."                

For it all started in a typical working day, when this person was constantly having several tasks such as writing, reading some articles online, and looking at the pictures both from past and present. Few people were at the office, one of them as busily preparing papers, while others just browsing some articles in their gadgets, or simply sat down and burning time. Near where this person works, and books such as those made by Miguel Coronel been left untouched in its shelf.

But hunger pangs made this person eating outside work. But before that, he looked at buildings that created an impression of a thriving metropolis: some were as old as reinforced concrete, others were glass and steel, all invoking "progress" according to the decade when it was built; while from the music being played through his cellular phone were those of Neofolk, Industrial music, and even New Retro "Alt Righters" described it as "Fashwave".

And at "Urban Hive" where he was eating his usual meal of breaded fish fillet, he continued reading, browsing notes, and merging thoughts that invokes something that seemed to be "revolting against the decadent" setting: ranging from articles from an old zine "Death to the World" to those of writeups related to the Cultural Revolution, Proletkult, and Eduard Limonov; of Historical scenes and Science Fiction, as well as old yet remarkable architecture particularly those of factories and other various edifices be it as old as reinforced concrete to those of steel and glass dominating the urban skyline of Mega Manila.
Those writeups, pictures, observations, anything "countercultural" to think of makes one compelling to distort: of giving blood-like colours as it invokes what he tries to convey such as a future different from what the system tends to show, plus a black sun embedded in the red star shining in its skies.

Besides "distorting" scenes with bloodied skies and featuring a merged symbol of sorts, he researched what goes behind those symbols and its significance, or perhaps notoriety given its relation to both political or religious movements around the world.

For as according to Wikipedia, the Black Sun apart was interpreted as "the strongest and most visible expression of god", with its 12 rays emanating as significant for it represents "the things of the target and the completion".
Yet to cite Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke about the Schwarze Sonne (its German name), he explained that:

"this twelve-spoke sun wheel derives from decorative disks of the Merovingians of the early medieval period and are supposed to represent the visible sun or its passage through the months of the year."

Furthermore, the bent nature of the ray was likely important because each ray represented the Germanic Sowilō (ᛋ) rune of the Elder Futhark, which represented the sun.

However, that symbol that shone within that dark, ambient, concrete setting has been synonymous to Germanic Neopaganism, and in Irminenschaft or Armanenschaft-inspired esotericism to those of Neo-Nazis spewing some pagan symbolism as if as theirs.

On the other hand, the Red star that surrounds the Black sun consists of five points as representing the five fingers of the worker's hand, the five continents, or the ability of the will to control the elements. In that sense it may also represents the power of the lower-self - that those of the human will.

Furthermore, that five pointed star was also used in early Christianity as symbol for the five senses, if not the five wounds of Christ.

And from that merged symbol, all in spite of its different leanings, casts its light, rays from darkness, invoking wisdom and of power to destroy and recreate. Sorry if the writer expressed further as in his earlier posts related to the merging of the Roter Stern and of the Schwarze Sonne, knowing that 

However, the difference from its original post featuring that symbol is that it features the runes Algiz (ᛉ), as well as its inverted version Yr (ᛦ) in the points of the Red Star; giving an impression that the star as spinning like a wheel of both life and death, of creation and destruction, as it shines its blood red "light" over a "modern world" in a form of a "jammed" pictures from Ortigas.

Furthermore, there are no words to describe as this person rather focused on "distorting" the scene with a dark red sky with a star shining over it. Besides that, this person sees that the present setting, in spite of its modern appearance, tries to hid its age old rottenness people yearned to expose and destroy as such.

For him maybe he thinks with that star it glows bright and at the same time making everyone urges to seek the truth and bring hope not by aiming at the heights but to swarm through the abyss. That abyss may not be hell but reality that is destitute enough to become degenerate even it is "well-hidden" by modernity. The poor, the repressed, the dispossessed, they sought the star as the hope that brings as it struggles against the order that represses them; if not trying to forge a society that is borne out of a vision.