‘Of Walking Abortion’ takes its title from a quote by feminist Valerie Solanas, which was also used to accompany the song ‘Little Baby Nothing’ on the inner sleeve of Generation Terrorists:
‘The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that is, it has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.’
https://227lears.com/2020/03/31/walking-sideways/
“I knew that someday I was gonna die
And I knew before I died
Two things would happen to me
That number one: I would regret my entire life
And number two: I would want to live my life over again.” Hubert Selby Jr sample
Life is lead weights, pendulum died
Pure or lost, spectator or crucified
Recognised truth acedia’s blackest hole
Junkies winos whores the nation’s moral suicide
Loser – liar – fake or phoney
No one cares, everyone is guilty
Fucked up – dunno why – you poor little boy
We are all of walking abortions
Shalom shalom we all love our children
We all are of walking abortions
Shalom shalom there are no horizons
Mussolini hangs from a butcher’s hook
Hitler reprised in the worm of your soul
Horthy’s corpse screened to a million
Tisu revived, the horror of a bullfight
Fragments of uniforms, open black ruins
A moral conscience – you’ve no wounds to show
So wash your car in your ‘X’ baseball shoes
We are all of walking abortions
Shalom shalom we all love our children
We all are of walking abortions
Shalom shalom there are no horizons
Little people in little houses
Like maggots small blind and worthless
The massacred innocent blood stains us all
Who’s responsible – you fucking are
Who’s responsible – you fucking are
Who’s responsible – you fucking are
Who’s responsible – you fucking are
Who’s responsible
The devotion that a fascist dictator can achieve just shows such a terrible flaw in human nature. There’s always a chance that it’ll be revived, because there’s a worm in human nature that makes us want to be dominated.
Nicky Wire Melody Maker
‘There’s an overriding philosophy behind the whole album: evil is an essential part of the human condition and the only way to get over it is recognising all hypocrisies, all evils – recognising it’s in us all – which I guess is not a liberal view.’
Nicky Wire
The bleakest song [on] the album. Fascism is growing stronger in Eastern European countries now. People are despairing about all sorts of things. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, rivalry between nations has not diminished. Every country has to develop naturally, as have western nations, but with the collapse of Soviet Union these countries are about 50 years behind in setbacks. Perhaps it’s not surprising that strong-willed ideologies such as Juche are being reconsidered. But with the nostalgia that the past was better, fascist ideology is being revived.’
Richey Edwards Speaking to Japanese magazine Music Life in 1994
Track 3 of The Holy Bible and you will see by the introduction sample by Hubert Selby Jr, the title and the source Valerie Solanas it is a dark song with bleak imagery.
Yusuf Sayad has dissected the song which I have a link to in the introduction to this article.
A little information on valerie Solanas she attempted an assassination on Andy Warhol and is an extreme feminist.
Some of her views talk about man’s invalidity in the scheme of things (literally walking abortions) but I think this song takes that and say’s we’re all responsible for the state of humanity’s failings.
We’re all responsible for all the horrors and no one is innocent.
“The male’s normal compensation for not being female, namely, getting his Big Gun off, is grossly inadequate, as he can get it off only a very limited number of times; so he gets it off on a really massive scale, and proves to the entire world that he’s a “Man”. Since he has no compassion or ability to empathize or identify, proving his manhood is worth an endless amount of mutilation and suffering and an endless number of lives, including his own – his own life being worthless, he would rather go out in a blaze of glory than to plod grimly on for fifty more years.“
Valerie Solanas
“Why produce even females? Why should there be future generations? What is their purpose? When aging and death are eliminated, why continue to reproduce? Why should we care what happens when we’re dead? Why should we care that there is no younger generation to succeed us?“
Valerie Solanas
When I was researching German propaganda I found an image of an Aryan mother breastfeeding so I took this image and placed the holocaust behind her which brings forth the idea of nurture versus nature. A simple juxtaposition and I think was influenced by the holocaust imagery from the holy bible and its ideas of evil repeating itself through generations.
I adapted a photogram from my college days and used procreate to add a coathanger and some text and I am pleased with the result:
So I have appropriated the image of Valerie Solanas and created a Andy Warhol style print so she has become a product of the art she has rallied against.
I have sat on this idea for a long time but Procreate finally has allowed me to realise that vision and I am extremely pleased.
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