Modern Primitives
A movement I have come to learn about through my close observation of Fakir Mustafar’s works, ModPrims (Modern Primitives) are a group of people, race and belief aside, who believe in the vitality of mixing state-of-the-art technology and tribal body modification methods.
The ModPrims like Fakir Mustafar modify their bodies in numerous ways by piercing, tattooing, suspending, hooking, chaining, binding, or reforming their structure to revive old ritualistic behaviors found and practiced in all parts of the world in the past and the present. They embrace this day’s cutting-edge technologies that modify the human body, think plastic surgery, implants, or genetic manipulation, by employing the rules of modern science and medicine in their exercises
They argue that the people of this age can no longer identify with genuine pleasure, or pain for that matter, hence their manipulation of their bodies in ways that generate exactly those two elements on the short and long runs: pain and pleasure. This is the pursuit of ModPrims: sensation.
And since the limitations of the body cannot be obeyed, and mental faculties exceed the frame of the flesh, as well as their own, these manipulations serve as a means to defy such limitations and to break their hold on humans.
There is much more to be said about this movement, but I leave you at this. Should you be interested in learning a bit more about the practices or the foundations of ModPrims, read this article.
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March 25th, 2006 at 11:50 am
Interesting Tololy! thanx for sharing :)
Humans never stop, there’s always something new they come up with.
IMHO, human perfection is to stay “untouched”: no plastic surgery (unless necessary) no piercing, tattooing, suspending, hooking, chaining, binding …etc
March 25th, 2006 at 3:32 pm
am not familiar with the term, but it was a good read.
Perhaps with all that genetic engineering going on, one day we will have a super-functional race of human beings, while others continue to de-volve.
March 25th, 2006 at 4:35 pm
iDip,
You’re welcome. Perhaps humans never stop because they are imperfect, or greedy, or stupid. Who knows? The human body is a beautiful thing but it is not aesthetically perfect (as opposed to a cat’s), a plain body is interesting to observe but I personally find it rather dull unless adorned.
Rami,
It is lovely to have you back. Your comment is of value, one of those ModPrims actually sustains that he is a “Cyberhuman”. His name is Stelarc and, quoting the article whose link I provided in my entry, he points to “his belief that the future of human evolution toward a greater interconnection of men and machines will require humankind’s mastery over (rather than suppression of) passion, suffering, and pain.”
March 25th, 2006 at 6:41 pm
master over passion, suffering and pain… i like how that sounds.
March 25th, 2006 at 8:29 pm
interesting post toly! As rami says, it is interestingly put. But the bottomline is to understand how mastery over passion is different from suppression of passion? Undefined and unexplained, yet too sexy a philosophy there.
-raga
March 25th, 2006 at 10:09 pm
I can only guess here, and this is something I deduced, that suppressing pain would be preventing it from happening in the first place. Most people do not like to deal with pain and take every step necessary to avoid it, perhaps this is an essential aspect of suppressing it.
Mastery over pain is actually letting it happen and, perhaps this sounds too masochistic, letting one’s self enjoy and/or grow through the experience.
Passion is pain and it is pleasure. I do not think the two things are seperable.
March 26th, 2006 at 1:26 am
you’ve been subar-tagged with all planeters
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March 27th, 2006 at 9:03 am
“Passion is pain and pleasure”. If your are trying to say that pain and pleasure co-exist, I tend to disagree.
However, I do conceed that “Passion is pain OR pleasure”. Passion that can give pleasure in certain situations can give pain in other situations, but it cannot do both at the same time.
Masochism, does it not exist in the realm of para-normal and poetry, or atleast my brief sojourn here make to be believe this :-)
my 2 cents, if I may!
-raga
March 27th, 2006 at 9:16 am
Interesting points, raga. I agree with what you said, but I think that at times the lines between the two elements, pain and pleasure, are blurred. There isn’t always a clear distinction between the two odds, this is perhaps what I meant by my former statement. Do I think the two can happen simultaneously? Yes. Does that happen all the time? No.
Sometimes something good happens that leads to something bad, and vice versa. It’s somewhat like a cycle, one leads to the other.
Intriguing, I love comments that ask for reflection. Welcome to Tololy’s Box, if I haven’t welcomed you before this day.
March 28th, 2006 at 8:29 pm
Thanx for the welcome! Much appreciated.
Wish I could end my comment with thanx. Alas! that is not to be.
I disagree with
“at times lines between the two elements, pain and pleasure, are blurred”
Most definetly not! They are two very different responses/feelings/emotions. However, it would be pertinent to say that one may lead to the other (Pain–>Pleasure/Pleasure–>Pain).
To end the comment, on a not-so-antagonizing note, I do agree, that pain & pleasure can happen simultaneously though :-)
-raga