Eso’s Chronicles 278 / 4
The ‘Knellen’ of EU Nations
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THE STATELESS KINGDOM

We are about to learn as those who lived at the beginning of the 20th century learned, that what we believed was a known known, we did not, in fact, know. What we believed as a certainty now seems to be nothing more than a diversion by the uncertainty principle.

For example, though you, the reader, may disagree with me, you already know that for any number of reasons, the history of the world and Europe needs to be re-examined.

One of the reasons for re-examination is because of Commissioners such as Viviane Reding of the European Commission, who in spite of her lofty title, sees Europe as an old cliché. She is in a way right, except that Europe is an old cliché that needs to be rescued from itself—and not by Federalized Europe. Europe will be rescued from walking into a dead end only when its history is put right.

We are also discovering these days that ‘democracy’ is not all it has been cracked up to be, and that the notions of our ‘ancient’ forebears that the best form of government is a government that creates no State is valid also for our time. It is interesting to reflect that the stateless nation is only possible under a King and when our planet is covered by a wood. The best of all possible States is not an urban ‘democracy’ as the media of our day so volubly insists.

So, you ask, how does a stateless State govern itself?

I have pointed out (in blog 276) that in those early times a self-governing community lived more or less a nomadic life and eked out a living herding animals: elk, reindeer, wild pigs, goats, and the like. Such a community governs itself. But it ceases to govern itself the moment someone imposes on it taxes in animal pelts. It is then that a community that heretofore has seen itself as a single entity, its herd including, and has begged the forgiveness of its gods that if it must kill one of its own, a red line is being crossed and one becomes a butcher. They knew that even a single act has consequences, and a single kill may end with chasing the herd over the edge of a cliff, where at the bottom stand butchers who skins the animals yet alive. In short, as I see it, then and now, the State is based on a foundation of the murder of living things, never on self-sacrifice of government officials on behalf of the community or nation.

Of course, the State takes all the credit for what it calls “growth” and “development”. But to take credit and have no questions asked, the State has to lie. Therefore, the State invents what we know as ‘historians’, aka liars of status.. Of course, there are as always some exceptions http://edvan.fadeout.ch/v2/?customerId=30&channelId=189&broadcastId=1380. Most everything else that existed before the State, historians leave it to anthropologists.

Anthropologists not only dig through ancient ruins, but they also try to reconstruct what life might have been like at the time the ruins had live people move through their space and ate from the dishes that have now turned into shards. Anthropologists also analyze what is left of stories that are believed to be of ancient origin. Most of these stories are known as myths of origin.

It is in these myths that we look for evidence of what the people of ancient times believed and the type of life these myths reflect. Most ancient myths leave us some evidence that human sacrifice was a common practice in the past, even if the story tells that the one who sacrifices is none other than God himself. This brings up the question of why the stories reflect the notion that the sacrifice of Gods is self-sacrifice, while reality shows us that self-sacrifice is a very rare thing, but the usual form of sacrifice is of human beings who for some reason or other have come under the control of whoever are the executioners.

Why do we have this difference between story and physical evidence http://www.mexicolore.co.uk/images-ans/ans_15_01_2.jpg ? The answer is plain though it is rarely pointed out or given by anthropologists.

The story or myth that is told by shamans, magicians, wandering medicine men, or simply story tellers originates in the imagination. The story teller imagines a just outcome to the story of creation—in which the Creator expends the most unselfish of His-Her energies—which is why it ends in the Creator’s total exhaustion.

As there is never a shortage of stories with unhappy or tragic outcomes, the story-teller also imagines God to atone for the misfortunes of creation and the loss of life or injustice. On the other hand, when story meets up with reality, self-sacrifice is much more difficult to accomplish and is, therefore, replaced by some painful act. This is why the sacrificed Others, be they prisoners of war or criminals, is always presented as part of a sacred event. It is only in a strictly secular and ‘democratic’ society that mass death is presented as a brutal act of butchery that has no end to it until the human subconscious is subdued by ‘the Law’, an entirely artificial entity and idealized justice unrelated to reality.

This is why such genuine thinkers as the German legal mind of the 20^th century Karl Schmitt, and today the Slovakian social thinker Slavoy Žižak, for all their genuinely humane qualities, ultimately end up supporting mass murder of “homo sacer” as justifiable even if it is altogether ‘an exception’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Agamben

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Eso’s Chronicles  210/ 2 

Responsibility to Death (2)
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As I was listening a few evenings ago to the Senators of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee grill three members of the U.S. executive branch, John Kerry, Chuck Hegel, and John Dempsey, I heard someone say: “Make statesmen responsible to laws”.

Yes, I thought, that should be, but what about asking to “…make statesmen responsible to death”?

Is ‘death’ a law? Or an office? Or a living thing?  Indeed it is—in numbers of ways.

First of all, if there were no death, there would be no laws or, better, there would be only rules. I do not much care for laws, given that in our time these are much abused, not least, by some of the highest offices and courts, the latter which appear—as in the U.S.—to have come to the conclusion that they are a law unto themselves. Rules, however, are more like traditions, and are, sometimes, imbedded in our very language. I have—so it seems to me-- endlessly repeated through my blogs the example of the ‘endearing word’, which grammarians mistakenly call ‘the diminutive’. Indeed, ‘the diminutive’ diminishes nothing, but expresses an attitude of endearment, in the worst case giving it an ironic tilt. For example, by saying “Johnny, be a darling boy”, when in fact Johnny has been a bad boy and has taken from his sister her favorite toy by force. In my country, Latvia, several centuries ago, before the universalization of the written word and ‘education’ of the ‘peasants’, the ‘endearing word’ was ubiquitous. It belonged to the oral tradition. Even at the beginning of the 20^th century, Latvian poets used the ‘endearing word’ rather frequently. For example, as the poetess Aspahziya wrote: “Mazā sirmā kumeliņā, jāj pa ceļu pasaciņa”: re: ‘on a small grey and dear foal, rides the dear fairy tale as she comes our way….’ With the oral tradition by now replaced with urban ‘news reports’, the ‘endearing word’ has almost disappeared.

Today endearment (of a rock, a mote, a knife, or a bird) has been replaced by its really real ‘hard equivalent’. For example, a spoon [karot(e)-ihte] has become an inflexibly hard ‘karote’. The loss of the suffix “-ihte” has meant the loss--even death--of the Latvian language. Of course, this does not mean that the written language of a clever writer cannot be endearing, but this is so only for the reader-connoisseur, not for the Latvian community as a whole as it used to be when it was still ‘a peasant’ in rural districts or inhabited the wood.

“Responsibility to death” is forgotten when “…responsibility to law” is imposed. As the leadership of the U.S. is proving to us at this very time as it seeks excuses to make war on Syria “…responsibility to law” is relative if you have the ‘power’ of violence on your side. The President of the U.S. may simply ignore the law ‘on the books’ and make one himself. Neither Russia allied with China can prevent ‘Obama of the U.S.’ from surrounding them with missile launchers on their geopolitical underbelly, and threatening them with evisceration, i.e., spilling their gut for those under ‘Obama care’, while leaving the office once occupied by ‘oriental’ heads and brains of these empires for himself and his military and oligarch barons.

For all that, if the world were to suddenly recover “…responsibility to death”, “…responsibility to law” would become moot. If you wish to know why (?) the answer is (:) “…because death is the only ‘law unto itself’ there is”. There are no presidents or autocrats who can escape the dictates of death. There is no physicist who with the help of a quantum computer will enable one to jump ‘the gap’ from material to organic reality, no matter how many dream of discovering a way.

During the last several decades, the ‘mechanist philosophy’ has become increasingly aggressive with ‘dreams’ of achieving equivalency with organic reality. It has begun black listing ‘the gap jumping methods’ of living organisms. For example, some internet platform will not allow you to post a link that contains words such as ‘cannabis’, ‘narcotic’, ‘X ’, and the like, simply because mathematics and ‘computer mechanics’ has come to believe that theoretically it can make calculations regarding matter that will enable them to replace the chemistry laboratory and become a religion, which like neo-Christianity will henceforth seeks miracles of its own. It is my hope that this ‘miraclemongering’ will fail sooner than neo-Christianity did. As neo-Christianity proved, ‘miraclemongering’ is a violent pastime, among its victims being such profound men as Jan Hus  and Giordano Bruno , both of who were burnt at the stake, because both took “…responsibility to death”  seriously.

At a time when the ‘really real word of science’ may with some justification  be proud of ‘quantum mechanics’ and the discovery of (potential) parallel universes, the same theory persuades scientists that ‘the gap’ that exists between ‘a thing’ and a thing as ‘a wave’, though ephemeral, is bridgeable by turning the ephemeral into matter. Hence physics is now engaged in the repression of the divine which cannot be reached by the agency of ‘the law’ or quantum computers, but only death.

Wherein lays the tendency to gain control over the human mind?

I have argued that it is to be looked for in the transformation of oral language into a written language, because the latter has a tendency to turn itself into bureaucratic ‘Law’, which attempts to turn the organic world into an urban setting, which ultimately is little more than a desert.

In terms of history, this transformation belongs to a book. We call it the ‘Bible’. It is the curious ‘genius’ of the Bible to order and dictate human behavior. It probably began when a Jewish ‘wise man’ determined that on the third day of ‘creation’ God said: “Let the waters under heaven come together into a single mass, and let dry land appear… and God saw that it was ‘good’” [NJB]. The judgment of ‘good’ begins the tradition of moralizing and biblical ‘miracle mongering’, which is a matter of imposing belief and demanding faith that the imposition is ‘good’, which can be achieved only through violence. The Zionist State of Israel today continues to impose the Laws of the torah over Palestine and judge its seizure of Palestinian land a ‘good’.

Now the Jews of Khazaria were not the only ones to create Laws, but it so happened that it was through their torah that this tradition of elitist violence (after all, the Vedas created the repressive and violent caste system of India) entered the West and most directly influenced what came to be known as neo-Christianity or the ‘religion’ of Western Kings, who then ordered to be written the so-called New Testament and created out of the ancient folk hero, King/Basil, the theatrical figure of  (King) Jesus Christ.

Of all the ‘Holy Books’, it is the neo-Christian ‘New Testament’ that specifically eliminates “...responsibility to death” by making death an irrelevancy by claiming ‘Christians’ to be immortals.