Svetislav Basara - The Cyclist Conspiracy

The female soul is represented by the frame of the women’s bicycle. Since it does not have the supporting crossbar, it is susceptible to deviations:

The top of the triangle (D) is facing down, a symbol of the depravity of man, and the legs (A and C) — are iniquity and passion that pin the soul to the earth.

The second chapter of the document “Theology and Bicyclism” deals with the city. It should be mentioned that the Little Brothers despise all urban settlements. For them, the urbs is a labyrinth with no way out because, after wandering about for a long time, after the unsuccessful search for meaning, you end up at the graveyard. There is a legend that the Evangelical Bicyclists authorized a project for a gigantic mental hospital (with a capacity for 20,000,000 mental patients) in which the madness of the world would be classified and organized like a complete city. However, there is no data about it. There is something else, a portion of short text which is ascribed to one of the Grand Masters of the past, rendered here in full through the kindness of Branko Kukić, who is its owner:

THE ARCHITECTS’ CONSPIRACY

When the Lord confounded the languages and stopped the construction of the Tower of Babylon, the architects did not capitulate. They made a sacrifice to Baal and convened on the ruins of the tower on a night with a full moon. They knew that they had mistakenly built the tower upwards, toward heaven, and that never again would they succeed to ascend to the place they wanted. So, they made a decision to build heaven on earth.

Thus, they began working on the project of a horizontal tower. They needed hundreds and hundreds of years to calculate the paths of the stars, a thousand years of study, so that they could compose the Great Urban Plan. But that plan, when it encompassed the whole planet, was no longer a plan of a city, but the blueprint of hell. Still, since it encompasses the entire planet, it is impossible to build any kind of structure that is not foreseen in the Urban Plan. So it is that, whoever builds something is building hell for himself. Because, as early as the 14

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century… (the manuscript finishes here.)

Finally, it is worthwhile to mention some of the projects and documents of the Little Brothers of the Evangelical Bicyclists of the Rose Cross: the Metaphysical-Strategic Defense Plan of the Eastern Roman Empire, the project of a Door for Exiting History, the Transcendental Biography of J. V. Stalin, Places That Are Vanishing, the Technological Approach to Producing a Bullet That Will Miss Archduke Franz Ferdinand, How I Became a Member of the Order of Little Brothers of the Evangelical Bicyclists of the Rose Cross, the Secret List with the Biographies of Meritorious Members of the Order, The Third Eye, The Death Fugue, Somnambulists … and many others, most of which have never seen the light of day.

The latest project of the Little Brothers is the DICTIONARY OF TECHNOLOGY, the interpretation of key concepts of the modern world in the light of the Spirit, published in the magazine Vidici (1–2), 1981.

This Report speaks of the ideological bases of the activities of a group of bicyclists associated with the journal Vidici (“Perspectives”). We use the words “ideological bases” because this is doubtless a coherent and autochthonous conceptual system whose genesis clearly indicates that the introduction of elements of a new ideology are in question, with the tendency to offer an entire and all-encompassing interpretation of reality.

It is well-known that every ideology represents a concrete articulation of atomized reality, an expression and explanation of the existing which the compartmentalized social conscious experiences as the truth. In that sense, this new ideology is no different than the earlier ones. The thing that makes up the most significant feature of this conceptual system, the diferentia specifica of the group’s teaching and public appearances, is their highly marked utilization of metaphor Aesopic language, their speech encoding . Each of the primary categories is actually a encoded; its interpreted-ideological essential meaning can be understood only if one decodes the key , if each crucial concept is “translated” and if, from the seeming shift in meaning of phrases and entire sentences, one moves beyond into the real, true reading of the texts.

Therefore, the main task of this part of the report is actually the translation and interpretation of the basic categories , more precisely the complete explication of the thoughts that must be hidden behind the code in order to survive. At today’s level of conceptual consciousness, with the modern development of social relations, in a situation when the duties of the media of informing the public are clearly defined, it seems completely incredible that, under the auspices of a journal, for two years and more, from volume to volume, from text to text , an ideology could be developed and established that is not only non-Marxist, but actually openly and aggressively anti-Marxist. This was possible precisely because of the abovementioned concealment, the linguistic camouflage, but the situation has changed completely with the most recent declarations of this ideologically like-minded group.

For the purposes of interpretation, the explanation of basic concepts, we will strictly hold to those definitions that the authors themselves gave in volume 1–2, 1981, which is called the Dictionary of Technology . This volume is actually presented in the form of a dictionary and it represents the peak of the ideological work of this group, because with it one obtains an overview of all the “projects” in earlier volumes, of all main concepts and all main ideas. Therefore this volume is of great significance for the ultimate establishment and popularization of this ideology. The Dictionary of Technology is, as the authors themselves say, “a proclamation,” in fact, the ultimate manifestation of a profoundly anti-humane and anti-socialist worldview , an open invitation to action, and the open work of those like-minded and of their collaborators. Thus, “the publication of this Dictionary testifies to the final unmasking of technology” (p. 1), thus, it is “a barbaric act of provocation,” and thus this manifesto is an invitation to the final and unconditional solution .

INTERPRETATION OF SOME OF THE BASIC CATEGORIES

Just like every other ideology, the one we are now analyzing also possesses a foundation of positive and negative categories .

The key positive categories are the following: Will, Person, Apocalypse , and the key negative categories are Technology, Mirror , and Boys :

TECHNOLOGY:

(first concept) is a leitmotif that is interwoven in all the texts and all the volumes of the journal. It is defined as “the production of forms” (p. 24). “Technology” is the New World, amnesia (forgetting) of the old, dual world, a world opposite to the world.”

Technology — society

Technology is nothing other than a false world, the world of deception, the world which lies in opposition to the real world. Technology is the entire world that has come about from Descartes (from the 17