#Cargo Cult

[spilladabalia]

Cargo Cult "Empty Room - Pain"

[queersatanic]

The Yank Who Became a God

Cevin Soling is the co- or sole owner of most of The Satanic Temple's various corporations but goes by the pseudonym "Malcolm Jarry" when associating with TST in public, including—alarmingly—on many of their legal documents.

We've talked before about how before and during the early years of the Temple, Soling (as "Cevin Soling") was visiting the South Pacific island of Vanuatu, filming  a documentation about himself as a would-be cargo cult messiah, fulfilling a prophecy of "John Frum".

And we've shared before that photographer Jon Tonks and writer Christopher Lord were on the island at the same time as one of Soling's trips, sharing some of the articles about the book they published.

And we've shared before that photographer Jon Tonks and writer Christopher Lord were on the island at the same time as one of Soling's trips, sharing some of the articles about the book they published.

And we've shared before that photographer Jon Tonks and writer Christopher Lord were on the island at the same time as one of Soling's trips, sharing some of the articles about the book they published.  

[Guardian] ‘There was a prophecy I would come’: the western men who think they are South Pacific kings 

[Blind Magazine] How to Be a King: a Beginner’s Guide

From the second link:

“I think as soon as we had met Cevin, we realised that that was the interesting thing,” says Tonks. “And we knew that if we spent a long amount of time there we would see all sorts of people doing the same thing."

But, until now we never had the full context for Tonks' and Lord's visit to Vanuatu or why seeing Soling arrive was so important.

We're sharing that excerpt below, but if you're interested and want more about the island, the John Frum movement, and other would-be messiahs, check out their book The Men Who Would Be King and Tonks' website.

For our narrow interests, the text suffices but the book it comes from primarily visual and covers several other would-be cargo cult messiahs as well as the communities those men visit, so if the below sparks your interests, pick up a copy.

The Men Who Would Be King by Jon Tonks and Christopher Lord £39.00 / $55.00 hardback (dewi lewis publishing) 200 pages, 72 colour plates & numerous illustrations ISBN: 978-1-911306-43-6

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[pargery]

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[literarypm]

Cargo Cult Science

50 years passed, and Feynman's words are not any less important or painful.

[capybara-is-watching]

オリンピックと万博は、三丁目の夕日世代に刷り込まれているカーゴカルトの一種だと思うのだ。手詰まりになってきたら、オリンピックと万博さえやれば、海の向こうから富がもたらされるという奇妙な信仰だ。おれはむしろ、オリンピックや万博は、世界的な参勤交替の一種だと思っている。

Xユーザーの冬樹蛉 Ray FUYUKIさん

[droopydogblog]

[doctorslippery]

Imagine if we were all living in a cargo cult culture and didn’t even realize it. Say that the Roswell and other ufo/uap crashes actually happened and we’ve been living as a culture off of those technological advances ever since. 

[sspacegodd]

[weirdlookindog]

The Love Cult (1966)

[magnetictapedatastorage]

"oh! i'll do that thing where you use a paper towel to wipe a really small amount of oil on to a pan so that it... cooks the food better! yeah!"

hm. frozen pierogis did not like that.

[abwwia]

Stephanie Syjuco, Cargo Cults (Java Bunny), 2016, pigment print, overall: 40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Bernie Stadiem Endowment, 2019.56.2

[eternal--returned]

Serge Gainsbourg ֍ Cargo Culte (1971)

Où es-tu Melody et ton corps disloqué Hante-t-il l’archipel que peuplent les sirènes Ou bien accrochés au cargo dont la sirène D’alarme s’est tue, es-tu restée

Au hasard des courants as-tu déjà touché Ces lumineux coraux des côtes guinéennes Où s’agitent en vain ces sorciers indigènes Qui espèrent encore des avions brisés

N’ayant plus rien à perdre ni Dieu en qui croire Afin qu’ils me rendent mes amours dérisoires Moi, comme eux, j’ai prié les cargos de la nuit

Et je garde cette espérance d’un désastre Aérien qui me ramènerait Melody Mineure détournée de l’attraction des astres

[queersatanic]

The year is 2014, and Cevin Soling, also known by his pseudonym Malcolm Jarry, one of the leaders of The Satanic Temple in the US, is visiting the tiny Pacific island of Tanna, part of the nation of Vanuatu. According to Soling, “Apparently there was a prophecy I would come”. This video tells the strange story of how Cevin Soling arrived in Vanuatu, convinced that he was the messiah of a cargo cult.

[jolaunay]

Les ailes de la Rolls effleuraient des pylônes

Quand m'étant malgré moi égaré

Nous arrivâmes ma Rolls et moi dans une zone

Dangereuse

Un endroit isolé...