Sitting here, thinking about this culture of degradation, the prison system, the way men and women are coerced into comidifying themselves, either as sex objects or as beasts of burden according to gender preconceptions... And I wonder, is our current culture of patriarchy very similar to the one of the old testament, the one in which Lynda spoke about, where even men are women, that is to say, property?
To an extent I think this is true. One of the things that anarchist philosophers stress is that when we put ourselves over someone else, we necessarily give credence to a hierarchy that puts us eternally below another. The class system of the Israelite' is obvious, especially in Exodus, when the rules of slavery are exemplified. Hebrews come before all non-Hebrews, men come before women, and fathers before all these, with men of property always the greatest of these (for as exodus says "a man is his money") and God, or the supposed mouthpieces for this invisible character, always at the topmost, meeting out the rape he sees appropriate for all his underlings.
So here I am, thinking about class structure and rocking out to some death metal and as I segway with my eternally infernal attitude into my next blog, I would like to show you some of these lyrics by a band called Behemoth, which are really much more Gnostic than Satanist.
"I the sun ov man
The offspring ov the stellar race
My halo fallen and crushed upon the earth
That i may bring balance to this world
I son ov perdition
From sheer nothingness transgressed
Unto the highest self - to utmost freedom
To explore the starry nature ov my rage
I pulse ov existence
The law ov nature undenied
I hold the torch ov Heraclites
So i can shake the earth and move the suns
I divine iconoclast
Injecting chaos into my veins
With life accepted
With pain resurrected
Is the embrace ov god in man profound
The joy ov a dawn
The ecstasy ov dusk
Nourished have i this karmic flow
Where great above meets great below
Let it be written!
Let it be done!"
Here we see a few examples of Biblical hyperbole, the reason for the fall, the narcissism originally thought consecrated for the demiurge only, and the importance of words. He says "let it be written, let it be done" just as God said "let there be water, and there was water" because to believe something, to form that belief into words and speak it aloud is to "shake the earth and move the suns." The belief,once expressed becomes reality.
So as concerns the oppression of human beings everywhere based on supposedly non-existent class distinctions, sex, race, nationality and especially that filthy filthy lucre, I say this.
Let gather the ravens, and may justice run down as waters and righteousness as an unfailing stream. Let the manacles be lifted from protagonists everywhere. Let it be written! Let it be done!
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