Eso’s Chronicles 292 / 5  
A Civilization of Persecution
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All comments appearing within brackets [ ] are editorial in origin. This series of blogs begins with 288.

JOHN KRISHNA*

We are told that the name for ‘Christian’ derives from Koine Greek http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian , which is also said to be the language of the New Testament. This is a very old myth, but has little relationship to the actual name ‘Christ’ https://www.google.lv/#q=origins+of+the+word+christ , which is derived from an old verb meaning to ‘cross’—as in crossing two sticks or coming to a cross road.

The word ‘christ’ actually stands for the drawn symbol of the cross. In Latvian folk symbolism there is also what is called ‘a cross of crosses’ http://baltic-crossroads.com/images/symbols/CrossOfCrosses.jpg , in which each arm of a cross-stitch is crossed by yet another stitch. While due to the teachings of a persecuting church the Latvians today call Christians “Kristieshi”, the linguistically correct word is Krish-Yan or when translated into English: John Krishna.

The old pronunciation of the word for ‘cross’ in Latvian was ‘krish’ which was added to an even older name, re: Yanis. When linked together, the words form ‘krish-yanis’, or cross-john, or Christian.

The name ‘Yanis’ is derived from the word ‘gans’, re: herder; where the letter G in the course of time became pronounced as Y (or J), but it still leaves  us a whole series of words originating in ‘gans’ , for example: Giovanni, gondola, gong, etc. Evidently, from the word ‘herder’ were derived hundreds of words, for example:  janissary, gendarme, Gengis, gender, gene, not to mention ‘dong’ from ’gong’, ‘don’ from ‘jon’. Undoubtedly, the word acquired its own sexual connotations, and jumped the gender divide, as in Joan, Zhanna, vanna, vagina, wohn, and so on.

Interestingly, the Latvian ‘krish’ mutates not only into ‘krusts’ (the name for the ‘cross’ today), but produces the verb for ‘falling’, re: ‘krist’. Thus, a tree falls = koks ‘kriht’. The place one sees most fallen trees and, therefore, ‘crosses’ is in the wood. Also, the word for ‘chalk’ with which one draw a lot of white crosses on the blackboard is (in Latvian) ‘krihts’.

*In Hindi the name ‘Krishna’ literally translates as ‘black’ http://hinduism.about.com/od/lordkrishna/a/krishna.htm . Why should a word that links with ‘cross’ translate into ‘black’? The answer is to be found in a tendency of the mind or thought to wander and make associations. This facility is called ‘pareidolia’. Our materialistic culture, committed to ‘scientific’ rigidity, however, describes it negatively, and accuses those who make use of it as finding meaning where it does not exist https://www.google.lv/#q=meanig+of+paraidolia . If you think that way, you will soon start persecuting those who do not think that way.

Yet we all know that a chalk mark on a blackboard makes it very visible. Also, in paintings and statues, Krishna is not painted black, but blue, which suggests the world within us, the dream world.

‘Krstjan’ denoted among the ‘heretics’, the Bogomils and Cathars, a rank among their church members**. Today it is a name still found among the Estonians, Latvians (as Krsh) and the Slovenes. To my mind, this compels one to think that the ‘old’ Kristyans==the very ones who were Christians before the arrival of capitalist Christianity—changed the nature of the ‘old’ as a result of imposing on the Krstyans taxation. Because the Krstyans rebelled against taxation (as New Englanders once did), the Western Christians, led by Roman Catholic Popes, condemned the Krstjans as heretics, and with support of the secular kings of their time began to persecute and exterminate them.

In short, John Krishna (an anglicized KrstYan) was forced to fight a now deliberately forgotten Civil War with a sect of Christians bent on globalizing (catholicizing) their sect over other Christians who had pre-existed them.

While the Hindu legends about Krishna speak of him as (among other things) an always victorious warrior, the Catholic Christian attacks on him found him surprised and unprepared for a bloody battle. Of course, the ‘heretic’ Christians resisted the attacks (burnings) for several hundred centuries (roughly 11^th-15^th centuries), but eventually were overcome by movements willing to make compromises (by the Protestants, the Eastern Orthodox), among which compromises was to conspire in a deliberate forgetting of the Civil War and renaming it ‘The Great Schism’.

**Krstjan==Malcolm Lambert, “The Cathars”, p. 201, Blackwell PB.S

 

Save the Wood! http://melnaysjanis.blogspot.com/

Saw-Cross https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPI4FceVgDDSuUxIJcVFT6TfjBf6IQwE5T0nZB9xmrUUFmPppkD7WJte8Z2M4Hr6pCOlMRAGQ34oPcCr8n3WQK-j-acV7Yrd0kWyLS6qNQrRzzKrt2dsS-iDrr3GVqgtgSkpeSzXxbAc0i/s220-h/DSCF7743.JPG

 

Eso’s Chronicles 165
Our Tattered Planet (8)
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If one leaves a dish filled with candy on a table, a child sees it, and—without asking whether he-she can take a piece of candy or not—just goes and takes it, and no one says a word, it will not be long before the dish will be empty. This is, because in his-her ‘known unknown’ mind, every child is a billionaire.

If the child wants more candy and begins to cry because there in no more in the dish, and the mother has another bag of it in the cupboard and without saying much pours the bag into the dish, then all will continue as before—unless before bedtime the child gets a tummy ache.

A somewhat like situation occurred in 2008, when with some help from unscrupulous financiers, the world ran out of money and assets simultaneously, and the world found itself in a financial and economic crisis. The mother of the world, the U.S. Federal Reserve in this instance, did what the mother of the child mentioned above would do: It began printing money, lots of it. It did so on the assumption that planet Earth, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, was 10 x larger than it actually is.

As a consequence of such a faulty assumption, it soon became evident that the money that was being printed had no collateral. There was no more candy to back it up with or only a very little. While many board chairmen tried to solve the problem by running to the store down the street, it was fresh out of candy, too. A virus of some sort was attacking the sugarcane fields and everyone’s larders, and factories had stopped production.

The virus, appropriately named ‘scarcity’ made everyone aware of just how serious the crisis was. It threatened with poverty not only those who had been poor since the beginning of time and lived off the refuse of candy wrapper piles left by rich kids, but Mr. Bernank* himself. Mr. Bernank was none other than the head of the printing office of the Federal Reserve Bank. Being no dummy, he had to think and act quickly.

Mr. Bernank printed money, but decided not to let the newly printed bank notes go from the Federal Reserve to the citizenry-at-large, but to branches of the Federal Reserve banks only. These banks passed the money on to their shareholders, the billionaire guys, who as anticipated, withheld it from the public. This was done on the theory that those who were wealthy should keep their wealth, and keep, at least, alive the tourist business. Of course, they who were poor or of lower middle class would never know what they missed. This did not matter, because all of these people were poorly educated, were not readers of books, and were unlikely to put together the ‘big picture’.

 

Though governments run by banks  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T_VxdLJdDU were not anything new [Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild had already uttered his famous observation (1863): “Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes it's laws”], Mr. Bernank, with authority to print money at will, became like Gavrilo Princip (assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, 1914) the assassin of modern governments everywhere.

In Mr. Bernank’s head, and the heads of the banks and their directors, henceforth the bank was the government not as a potential, but for real, both de jure and de facto. What for 150 years ago (1863) was a meare projection, by 2013 was the new reality). Never mind that fiat money is not real, because inflated money can be deflated easily enough. What remains will not be sugarcane mulch, but a trough filled with sugar.

There is only one trouble with this splendid future for the rich: there will be no ride to the moon. The sugar trough, once emptied, will not be refilled with a fresh supply of candy. This is when the rich will throw a tan-trum and have themselves a war.

Unfortunately, wars are often preceded by a civil war, and as I wrote in my previous blog (164), I tend to believe that such a ‘civil war’ has already begun—on the quiet, of course—and is known by another name, re  ‘deep event’. Indeed, preparations for such a deep event began soon after WW2. The preparations were made by secret ‘think tanks’, hid—as some claim—in the folds of a ‘deep state’ www.voltairenet.org/article178312.html. The latter is a Turkish term, because the Ottoman Empire http://www.naqshbandi.org/ottomans/maps/declinemap.gif  did not die in the heads of Ottoman statesmen, but continues in modern Turkey, which not surprisingly continues with its own foreign policy http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22484115 , and has had an influence on Western intelligence services, where ‘deep states’ are best hid.

It is interesting that this ‘deep event’ is engaged in actively and aggressively by the Western nations going back to WW1, after which the Ottoman Empire was replaced (1922) by modern Turkey. Western activism is natural, if one remembers that it was the West which dismantled the empire. Even so, the conflict goes back to the Great Schism between the East and the West, and that the Schism was won by the West, firstly, by robbing the East of its religion, secondly by winning the power game. While the East never acknowledged its defeat de jure, it did partially acknowledge it by adapting the Western historical perspective. In religious orientation, the Christian part of the East abandoned Basil and accepted the Western story of Jesus in replacement. In the area of worldly power, the East continues (through ‘deep state’ tactics) to oppose the West to this day, notably in the geopolitical arena stretching from Turkey, to Syria, Iraq, Iran and on East. This is one of the reasons why Turkey has not been accepted into the European Union.

The tragedy for the East in the East vs West conflict is that the East no longer has a clear memory of Basil and what he stood for. Some repressed sense of the egalitarian teachings of Basil remains among the common people, and this was taken advantage of by Lenin and the Bolsheviks (‘big idea men’, Stalin including) in forcing through the Russian Revolution (1917). Unfortunately, the Bolsheviks imagined that the Revolution was on behalf of ‘workers’/ robotniks*, industrial workers specifically, while this author maintains that the real backers of the Revolution were people who wanted a return to the days of the subsistence economy when there was no taxation, but one lived off the land and worked only as much as was necessary to survive the winter.

It was the subsistence economy that the people lost, when they lost control over their land to the proto-Westerners, the Vikings, who besides seizing their land imposed on the native peoples taxes, the first taxed item being a free gift of the wood==the animal pelt.

It is this misunderstanding over what cause the Russian Revolution was fought that continues to hamper the East from seizing the day, when it is for its seizing. Obviously, the East can seize the day only by turning the clock back, but for this to occur, the East must receive help from, both, the nature of our planet and the nature of humankind.

*Bernank—a colloquialism for Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve.

**Robotnik an old Chech word http://www.wordnik.com/words/robotnik . If one allows that the consonant ‘l’ may change to consonant ‘r’ (once Amsteldam = Amsterdam today), then ‘robot’ may once have been pronounced ‘lubot/ludot’, which is close to the Roman ‘ludi’ festivals or people’s festivals.

Eso’s Chronicles 164

The Forgotten Christians of Tibet (7-3)
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One may argue that the Civil War in the West has already begun. One of the screens that divert the eye from focusing on it properly is the sham war that the West is waging against the Muslims in the name of pseudo-Democracy, even while a hundred Tibetan Christians have immolated themselves to protest the destruction of their culture by a pseudo-communist Chinese government.

Unfortunately, the self-immolations of Tibetans are not backed by a clearly defined political agenda or, for that matter, on an understanding of the history of human sacrifice—either self-sacrifice or that of children and soldiers. One suspects that the reason is the universal ‘lock down’ of thought regarding evaluatinon of tactics for survival which are not convenient to governments based on capitalism.

The link at Google http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_independence_movement , while touching on the history of Tibet and interest groups sympathetic to the Tibetan struggle for independence and/or autonomy, has not deduced from the sacrifice and struggle goals that would touch on the interests of other people. After all, the Tibetans are not the only ones whose interests have been transgressed by the wanton self-interest of government cliques. Such self-interests include

1.    disregard for environmental interests and culture of life in nature;
2.    disregard of rights for a community to determine whether it desires to inherit, maintain, and further a culture that pre-existed the arrival of capitalist novus ordo;
3.    denial to a given community of rights to economic improvement across all social groups simultaneously and so as for improvements to endure and be lasting;
4.    denial of resources for studies and conferences which develop well thought out programs toward an improved culture of life;
5.    denial of presenting a sustainable program of economic equality, its example set by the domestic culture of life styles among the leadership and their families;
6.    rejection of solutions which deny war as one such by retooling the means of resistance consistent with principles of self-sacrifice (self-caused-death);
7.    rejection of disciplinary systems (not exclusionary of a painless death penalty) which continue to disregard items 5. and 6.

While at this point of planetary emergency, my interests span all points above, I am most interested in re-thinking the place of self-caused-death as a tool in avoiding death of others as part of a solution. At this point in our culture of death, it is essential that the slide into chaos is arrested and sectarian secular terror (which includes secularism acting as a religion of which neo-Christianity is a prime example) is be shown as the anarchy it is and brings. As mentioned in my previous blog, the criticism may begin with a look at the Chinese government, which charges me and those like me with murder, re: anyone aiding immolations will be charged with murder. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-22290746 (see next to last paragraph of link) Generally speaking, ‘aiding’ is tied to the word ‘abetting’, which in American law means “aiding and abetting a criminal” http://definitions.uslegal.com/a/aiding-and-abetting/ . Is resisting oppression a criminal act? No doubt, for a slave-owner it is so.

What about the U.S. governmeant? http://rt.com/news/guantanamo-prison-torture-un-677/  UN human rights office says that force feeding prisoners constitutes ‘torture’. If the UN speaks true, then a U.S. government sponsored culture of terror (at least for those who become its prisoners) is opposed and fought by a culture of not-violent-terror practiced by ‘enemy combatants’. This is certainly contrary to U.S. projections of itself. Surely then anyone who supports Tibetans who have in the past and may in the future self-sacrifice themselves is along with the immolators to be considered an ‘enemy combatant’. Yes?

A murder charge and being for that reason on the receiving end of torture for harming no life but taking charge of one’s own cannot be other than motivated by the desire of the Chinese and U.S. governments to impose on everyone a sterile and deadly superego created (machine style) out its own super-self for the future ad infinitum.

Such dreams of perpetual power are nothing new. These begin in ancient times, when cultural heroes such as Gilgamesh and Enkidu of the kingdom of Uruk (on the territory of today’s Iraq) went on journeys to find the ‘plant of immortality’.

That journey, however, resembles the expeditions of the marauding Vikings: the adventures include rape, theft, violence, and death. The King of Uruk and his companion foretold, in their own way, the future.

The ancient story begins with, first, with king, Gilgamesh, presenting an animal herder, Enkidu, of the country side with a temple prostitute. When Enkidu discovers that a prostitute’s favors and his pleasure of them have no lasting power, i.e., cannot give him with eternal life, he and Gilgamesh share in the same intelligence and become fast friends. They agree to go and try find the plant of immortality no matter where the search takes them. When they arrive in Lebanon, Gilgamesh and Enkidu, apparently in the belief that the secret of immortality is hid in trees, begin to ax the country’s cedars. A giantess named Hum-baba (?Great mother), guardian of the cedar forests, comes to defend the trees, but is soon mortally wounded and dies.

Humbaba is an unmistakable prototype for what later, in another story, becomes the Sphinx. The killer of the Sphinx is prince Oedipus, who is in fleeing death by amorality. By the time the epic of Gilgamesh reaches Greece, it has grown in sophistication: the search for the plant of immortality leads not only to the death of the forest, but Oedipus’ sexual adventures with his mother go beyond the pleasures of sex by seeking immortality by replanting one’s self, so to speak, in her womb. What Oedipus learns is that none of the children born to Iocaste are his replicas, but individuals in their own right. When Oedipus’ wishes fail to materialize, the city of Thebes and the wood, at the centre of which once stood the Temple of the Sphinx, turn to desert http://oedipusrexrewritten.blogspot.com

Still, literary critics continue to divert the attention of theatre goers from the fact that for playwright Sophocles’, the main theme (though the background is obscured by the actions in the foreground) is the role of death, and how its importance is ignored by those who seek power. The play ends in tragedy, the nature of which is not understood to this day.

Sophocle’s gives the riddle of his play an implicit resolution by allowing Oedipus’ daughter Ismene to escape death (evidently to later tell what really happened). But because Sophocles gives Ismene a minor role in the play proper, so do our critics give her no mind. Our mindset, kept in a hypnotized state by secular Christianity (in its Lenin-Stalin, Mao Tse Tung, and Nixon-Regan masks), cannot shake off the False Flag of the Christian lamella or, if you will, saran wrap. While the Chinese Government’s plan for the Tibetans is seen by the latter as a death trap, and the bravest of them are offering their lives in non-violent sacrifice to save their community, the Chinese leadership, obsessed with immortality clings to power through the barrel of the gun.

Eso’s Chronicles 142
The Earthquake of San Francisco as A Political Act (1)
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Shades in the mirror of a liberal political universe

There will be those who insist that what I call the ‘slide of San Francisco into the Pacific’ falls under the category of ‘an Act of God’ and will NOT BE a political act.

Though the event (whenever it happens) will be dramatic enough to be called an ‘Act of God’, I insist that it will be a uniquely American “political act” that—now that it has begun with a vaguely intuited ‘happening’ somewhere ‘out there’—it will reverberate to the farthest reaches of our planet and maybe even kill us.

Like all expectations which anticipate the End of the World, the slide of San Francisco into the ocean http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/ has taken a long time to develop and has a long history.

The earliest recorded event of ‘the End’ is that of “the worship of the golden calf” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_calf  and, the best I know where to place it,  is in the ancient Jewish empire of Khazaria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chasaren.jpg, aka the Khazarian Khaganate, an empire that stretched from the east coast of the Black Sea to the West coast of the Aral Sea, and about equal distance from Kiev in the north to the borders of Armenia.

 

Because the modern state of Israel has political reasons to identify with a fictitious land, the so-called ‘Ancient Israel’ located north of Ancient Egypt, and similar political reasons for identifying with the area apply to the nations of the West, this ancient empire (of a Turkic people) is today casually passed over, if not outright ignored.

However, being ignored does not mean eliminated. Rather, being ignored causes the object to become an “unknown known”, as Donald Rumsfeld, the former American Secretary of Defense, tried to explain the attack on WTC towers, when explaining to news media why President Bush declared a ‘Crusade’ against terrorism.

Because ‘unknown’ Khazaria continues to remind itself to us through the ‘holy writ’ known as the Bible and the mysterious writers who presumed themselves to be wise, and whose presumption inspired the emergence the Commandment “Thou shalt not kill” (Exodus 20:13), it ought not be surprising that the Khazars also brought into being a  nonviolent civilization. The full meaning of “Thou shalt not kill”, however, emerges only in Matthew 5:21: “Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, ‘Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment’.” Today this is interpreted as a blanket condemnation of taking human life.

A more critical reflection on “Thou shalt not kill”, however, reveals it to be a Commandment that applies only to those who have no authority to kill, but does not apply to those who have the authority and who have the courage to stand judgment. These latter were once upon a time known as the holy kings, those who paid for their authority with self-sacrificial death (but failing it were garroted http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrote ).

 

The holy kings accepted their role as transgressors of the Commandment and did not fear death for themselves, because they were convinced that the death they realized on themselves and meted out to others  was justified by the fact that it created and maintained a community. The basis for their conviction was the perception that a community was an exceptional institution and would not exist without such a sacrifice.

It was the universalization of the Commandment through the written law (entertained by Western boyars and princes), that destroyed the tradition of Eastern Christianity and instituted what we know as Western neo-liberalism, i.e.: a force majeure that is as ‘natural’ as an Act of God, but invariably favors the ruling party or the party that unseats it from power by means of a civil war. Universalization of force majeure as a ‘natural’ Act is the essence of neo-Christianity, also known as Catholicism, because it can be instituted (over a holy king) only by a pretense to religion. This necessarily makes neo-Christianity a False Flag event.

The universalizers carry forth their pretense under a umbra of absolute nonviolence and by insisting ‘blood guilt’ to be unredeemable under any circumstances. It is, thus, that modern government has made itself the killer of ALL life, human and animal, excluding the wealthy and the ruling elite who remain the universalizers and False Flag carriers.

Yet Numbers 35:33 explains: “So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.”

If we take and put the writings mentioned above end to end, we arrive at the conclusion that it is wrong to kill, and why those who kill must be killed in return, and why those who follow in yet another turn of killing must also be killed. In other words, the killing can stop only if one takes it upon himself to kill himself. Because taking one’s life is such an awesome act, it used to be called a ‘sacrificial’ act.

In order to deny a sacrificial act its effectiveness, the governments of today call it ‘a suicide’, and elevate “human rights” above all other rights, and make murder, too, a human right—especially when it concerns those sitting in government.

Such simplistic or closed circuit reasoning constitutes the rule of law in our day, and is the reason why communities are collapsing the world over. It exempts murderous statesmen from the death penalty—unless even more violent statesmen can gather political points with an desensitized public by killing murderous statesmen in a phony self-righteous act, because the latter have less military power than they do. The most recent examples of such murders of murderers are the attacks and murders executed by U.S. Presidents and leaders of NATO nations on Iraq and Libya, and celebrating their military victories by murdering the captured leaders guilty of unredeemed murders of their own.

By these lights, the leaders of the West and the leaders under their sway, have discarded and trampled into the mud the Commandment “Thou shalt not kill”. Now, go blow your whistles, boys, all you want; we will simply shut down the speakers and whisper “terrorists” in mikes of our own!

One ‘boy’ piped: “Unfortunately, all our efforts to explain to the Americans that European missile shield in its current form is aimed against Russia, its nuclear capabilities and undermines world’s nuclear balance have been in vain. Our arguments have been heard neither in America nor in NATO,” Medvedev said. http://rt.com/politics/medvedev-us-defense-cuba-333/

Go, whistle some more, Medved!

Once exceptionalism is exercised only in matters relevant to government and its small circle of oligarch supporters, but not to society as a whole, irresponsibility become a matter of course in a long string of cases. Without a doubt, community will break down. This is where the Civil War stage begins. As noted in my blogs 20 and 21 (“The Despair of Stalin”) at http://jesusthebogomil.blogspot.com , the Civil War did once already begin under the guise of the Russian Revolution (1917), but miscarried, because Lenin and Stalin for all their unhappiness failed to destroy the force majeure instituted by the neo-Christian False Flag Act of 1118, but remained under it. Indeed, the bureaucracy organized by the Bolsheviks was essentially imitative of that of the West.

As far as the humankind of billions is concerned, it is powerless to effectively change governments and their preoccupations, because it does not have enough power in its hands to kill the universalizing governors. Even if every inhabitant of the planet were armed, the absence of a sense of community (due to the removal of bonding charisma by governments many centuries ago) prevents humankind from organizing into disciplined unit or a solidarity such as government has organized its bureaucracy into.

This is where the earthquake of San Francisco enters into the picture. 

Given that the public is unable to introduce major changes in ‘modern democratic’ government, which has declared itself and its oligarch controlled financial institutions as “too big to fail” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_big_to_fail , an outside event must insert itself and is eagerly and with endless patience awaited to do so.

In cultural terms the waiting is nothing new, and was expressed long ago by Samuel Beckett’s play “Waiting for Godot” (1948), described by some as the 20^th century’s best known play. While Vladimir or Estragon, the play’s main protagonists, wait and while their time by looking into an empty shoe and a hat, the play ‘plays’. At last, they are visited by Pozzo, an oligarch, who drives a slave named Lucky, but neither turns out to be Godot or God (with or as) a dot—as this member of the audience once believed.

No doubt, Beckett’s play and the failure of the “too important to fail” is tedium arriving with the regularity of unrequested ‘spam’ from the internet. The correctness of this analysis was recently ‘proven’ by the welcome the Russian people extended to exploding meteriorite http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBvotWfR3j4 , and with what patience the inhabitants of Tokyo sit on top of a volcano, and the San Franciscans twiddle their thumbs sitting over the San Andreas fault in California.

 

Copyright E. A. Benjamins aka Jaņdžs
NOT-VIOLENT TERROR
24 A Function of Awe

The civil war that began round about the year 1117, when Alexius I threw Basil (according to my theses also known as Jesus or John) into the pit of fire continues to this day.

After killing Basil (and the subsequent destruction of the empire of Alexius I by the French in a “Crusade”), Basil-John’s Holy Office was removed (1305) from Constantinople to Avignon. Seventy-three years later, in order to make the priesthood in Avignon look less French, the office was moved once more, this time to Rome. The Byzantine people were not happy, but perhaps this spiritual violence was mitigated by a promise that Basil-John would sit in Rome, where western princes would surely protect him from oriental despots like Alexius I. The protection, if such was offered, proved a lie. No Pope has ever sacrificed his life as John-Basil and his retinue of Johns routinely did before secular kings put them to death. Instead, the early popes—the brothers or in-laws of kings—called (actually renamed) John Jesus and wrote a new myth about his divinity.

While today neo-Christianity is a show that entertains a dead God, western thinkers stubbornly cling to western (Scaligarian and Petavian) chronology of history. Even atheists cannot shake off this lighter than air God and remain bound to a God, they claim not to believe in.

From the very beginning of this religious civil war, which essentially polarizes people in two economic camps, the allies of Jesus have had the upper hand. It is thus that they are able to impose on the world their version of the story-history of John. Indeed, the princes invented the story about Jesus we know. At the same time, this invention is the reason why the fire pit death of Basil is practically unknown.

The civil war is at its bloodiest today, even though to one of the economic poles it may appear to be bloodless. No matter how many thousands of images of dismembered and dead men, women, and children are shown on the internet and television they are as if not seen. This is because such scenes take place far away from the viewers living inside the protected zones of the powers-that-be.

Being the apparent winner of the civil war, the successors of Alexius I (symbols of state power and righteousness) claim to speak in the name of love and peace, and let the bloodguilt fall on unnamed secularist armies (their own and that of their enemies) as though these appeared outside the bounds of western foreign policies. Worse, the oligarchs (or their like) have not only killed Basil-John and changed his name to Jesus, but have installed Jesus-Basil as the ruler of heaven, where all his energies are consumed trying to sit on air.

Perhaps the “victory” of the successors of Alexius I will be carried forward yet another thousand years. However, there are reasons to doubt this. The torn social bonds that are the price of appearing to be victor of this war have turned the populace into an army of the dumb. This is not without its corrosive effects. Unable to resist the oligarchs, the poor play a waiting game. That is, they wait for the rich and their own to exhaust the resources of our planet, because it is only after the resources are exhausted will everyone be able to let the Earth go fallow and gradually resume a normal life again.

Poets, often true, but physically weak seers, have watched—real time and their mind’s eye—ignorant armies http://tinyurl.com/qk7mqr rush to be devoured by chaos http://tinyurl.com/2lhyc4 . Brazen men with brazen promises are in leadership positions http://tinyurl.com/pdujkd . Mountaintops (bald for loss of snow and forest cover) and deserts (jumping from Africa to Europe) have replaced the ancient Johns with Apocalypse sans Jesus in real time.

Waiting still, the poets see no sacrifice charismatic enough (whether by John, Jesus, or anonymous soldiers blowing their heads off in the field) to save humankind. Governments with high decibel sugars glaze all protests.

But wait! Is it not curious that the present winners of the civil war appear to hate most “suicide terrorists”? Is it not a “suicide terrorist” one who takes not only his-her own life, but the lives of everyone around, the lives of the innocent as well as the guilty? Does not such self-sacrifice speak of utter moral depravity, which gives the ruling elite moral authority by default? Most likely this is because the powers-that-be presume such moral authority as much as the terrorists do.

At this time, the losing side, the poverty stricken and superfluous, use tactics that they have learned from the winning elite, who camouflage their violence from the eyes of the ordinary citizens by controlling the communications media. We hear of remote controlled drones killing the opposition leader, but it takes a long time for the news to reach us that along with the leader, the dead include the bride, the groom, and most of the wedding guests. http://tinyurl.com/ncgx2m . While the tactics of both sides of the civil war are roughly the same and equally brutal, it nevertheless appears that only the side of the poverty-stricken and superfluous ones, has the option to practice true self-sacrifice. At a time when the internet is replacing newspapers, radio, and television as primary media as the disseminator of news and other information, the tools are available that will record and broadcast the self-sacrificial deed and censure it and keep it anonymous. The failure to express protest by using self-sacrificial death as a tool (what John-Basil-Jesus taught), may be seeing the end of its days.

Slavoy Žižek, a Slovenian philosopher and at this time the director of the Birbeck Institute in London, approvingly cites Brecht, the German playwright. Writes Brecht (in “Baden Learning Play on Consent”): “To encourage a man for his death, the interveningly thinking one (der eingreifend Denkende) asks him to give away his goods. When the man gives away everything, what is left over is only life. Give away more, says the thinking one.” The ‘interveningly thinking one’, one assumes, is one’s own inner voice. [No doubt, the language is a bit heavy.]

Žižek then writes (“The Monstrosity of Christ”, pp 300): “This ‘give more’ is a true ethical answer to the false spirit of sacrifice: it hits the narcissistic satisfaction provided by sacrifice in the eye. Brecht’s real target here is the pathetic gesture of sacrifice….”

Nevertheless, one may object: What if sacrifice is essential, a kind of mirror of the Big Other mentioned in a previous blog, so that human kind will be reminded of itself by reminding itself to mind, which reminder is essential to the formation of a larger-than-life or virtual society?

What if with the mirror, which reflects back to one one’s true terror of death, puts the same one in awe of the (“pathetic”) sacrifice and breaks down the refusal of one’s otherwise ungovernable ego to submit to the compromise that is necessary to create a society larger than one’s immediate family and intimates?

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